It would be hard to hold this belief and to live up to it, but it may be that only through some such holy act of imagination can we, in all humility, hope to possess the sober serenity called for in these days.
Christianity & Crisis MagazineJanuary 13, 2022
If we leave religion out of our national conversation, we end up with a vapid conversation that doesn’t address the deepest realities that move most of the people in this country.
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 4, 2022
The flawed human race, trapped in a cycle of cascading pain and wrong, is what and who God is bound and determined to love; the question is, How can He do it?
Walter Russell MeadJanuary 2, 2022
After a tumultuous start to the post-World War II era and before the Cold War fully commenced, the board of supervisors of Christianity and Crisis issued a joint statement in December 1946 that tried to explain a Christian approach to international issues.
Christianity & Crisis MagazineDecember 29, 2021
Our greatest need today is the certainty of God, the profound conviction that he does rule, that his righteousness and justice and love are imperishable.
Christianity & Crisis MagazineDecember 24, 2021
And human nature is such that great generosity often fuels greed, especially when unchecked by viable law and social expectations.
Mark TooleyDecember 17, 2021
This week the editors discuss Providence’s Advent series on hope.
Mark Tooley & Marc LiVecche & Mark MeltonDecember 17, 2021
Christians should not allow themselves to be swept along on the tides of popular resentment and feeling, but should plant their feet firmly on the rock of fact and of Christian love. Only thus will the truth be discerned amidst the babels of conflicting opinions.
Christianity & Crisis MagazineDecember 13, 2021
“We have,” said an exuberant campaign orator in the recent campaign, “the moral leadership of the world. The whole world trusts in our devotion to freedom and expects us to save mankind from totalitarianism.” That is how we see ourselves, at least in our more complacent moods. The world does not see us as we see ourselves.
Christianity & Crisis Magazine & Reinhold NiebuhrDecember 7, 2021