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Jan 14, 2025 | 
christianitytoday.com | Angela Lu Fulton
Ed Lapiz, who popularized a more accessible preaching style, is courting controversy by rejecting the God of the Old Testament. In late June, controversy erupted in the Filipino evangelical corner of the internet. The subject: a sermon posted on YouTube by influential megachurch pastor Ed Lapiz, in which he claimed that the God of the Old Testament (Yahweh) is distinct from-and in opposition with-the God of the New Testament (El Elyon), the father of Jesus.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Angela Lu Fulton
Tightening restrictions on Indian Christians, the testimony of a president's daughter, and thoughts on when pastors should retire. Illustration by Christianity TodaySixty percent of the world population lives in Asia, including a growing and active Christian community. This year, the top ten Asia stories on CT's website focused on India, China, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Kevin Williamson |Angela Lu Fulton |Asma Uddin
How remembering the labor of our forbears gives us hope for the future. Published December 1, 2024 • Updated November 30, 2024 Hello and happy Thanksgiving (even if belated)! I hope your food was good and plentiful, and the time with loved ones has been rewarding. And for those for whom the holidays are not so easy, that you still experienced care from others.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Robert A. Sirico |Kevin Williamson |Michael Reneau |Angela Lu Fulton
Today’s populists are giving up on a free society. Published December 1, 2024 • Updated November 30, 2024 In the current era of constant debate, shifting ideologies, and intense elections, it may be that holiday get-togethers can offer something more than a continuation of the same.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Angela Lu Fulton |Asma Uddin |Hannah Anderson
Hi and happy Sunday. This week was an important one in Hong Kong. Five years ago, much of the international press was focused on protests against the Chinese Communist Party’s tightening grip on the territory. This week, courts there handed down sentences for some of the organizers of those movements and later electoral attempts to show more independence from Beijing, and resumed a trial for media executive Jimmy Lai.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Angela Lu Fulton
The country's church-run addiction centers are so effective that communist officials are taking notice. In March 2013, the government-run drug rehab center in Hanoi released Hung Quang Pham early. They didn't want the bone-thin heroin user with AIDS to die in their facility. But before Hung left, friends helped carry him to a Bible class held inside the rehab facility, and Christians told Hung about Jesus.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Angela Lu Fulton
Christian leaders from Nepal to Turkey greet the US election results with joy, grief, and indifference. As Americans headed to the polls Tuesday, the rest of the world watched to see who would become the 47th president of the United States. The election of Donald Trump affects many evangelical communities around the world in terms of foreign policy, foreign aid, religious freedom, and cultural trends.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Angela Lu Fulton
Yale scholar David Moe explores the faith and identity of ethnic minorities in his home country of Myanmar. The rural Chin village in the mountains of Myanmar where scholar David Moe was born in 1983 no longer exists. This village of 70 Christian families has moved twice, higher and higher into the mountains. Moe's desire to become a pastor led him to pursue higher education outside of Myanmar, and today he is a postdoctoral associate and lecturer in Southeast Asian studies at Yale University.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Angela Lu Fulton
Stephen Tong introduced the Chinese-speaking world to Reformed theology. Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary will award Jakarta-based evangelist and pastor Stephen Tong the 2025 Kuyper Prize.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Angela Lu Fulton
Filipina theologian Melba Padilla Maggay, who fought for democracy 40 years ago, critiques today's evangelical politics. One September day in 1972, Melba Padilla Maggay stepped outside to find Manila's newspaper stands empty and massive lines for jeepneys, the Philippines' local public transportation. Then-president Ferdinand Marcos had declared martial law, giving him wide-ranging power over the government.
