A Conservative Christian Alternative

A Conservative Christian Alternative to Panic Politics Bruce Ashford models a refreshingly amiable approach. But perhaps he could have used a little more fire and brimstone. Bryan McGraw

For those Americans who think of themselves as residing within the conservative Christian orbit, things might feel a bit odd these days. On the one hand, they have a president who is rather explicit about protecting their interests and advancing their priorities, even though his personal life does not, ...

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gospel The Gospel in Major City Centers What does it look like for church leaders in Chicagoland and other large cities to actually seek the peace and prosperity of the city? Mary Schaller

Chicago has been my home town only for the past four years. I spent most of my adult life in Boston, the San Francisco Bay area, and the Inland Northwest. But perhaps since I grew up in the Midwest (Cleveland, Ohio), somehow Chicago feels even more like home than other places where I’ve lived ...

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News | CT Magazine HQ Trivial? Ministries find a central hub is less and less essential to taking the gospel global. Kate Shellnutt

When the owners of Ralph D. Winter’s missions mecca opted to sell much of it, they weren’t just parting from the California campus that long housed the late missiologist’s US Center for World Mission (now Frontier Ventures). Frontier Ventures and the affiliated William Carey International University (WCIU) were also saying goodbye to the traditional notion of a single headquarters for their global ministry—instead adapting, like many missions groups have, to base more of their ...

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