In our doctoral seminar we were discussing theories of mission. Our professor, who had grown up in the mission field in China, had personal experience with the ideas we were playing with. He closed ...

But Sarah Ruden’s new biography of the martyr dismisses her Christian community as misogynist. In the spring semester of anno Domini 2000, I was a first-year college student enrolled in a survey of ...

PERRY — For nearly 30 years, Will Spann said, he wanted to do something to pay tribute to the millions of Christian martyrs who have given their lives for their faith through the centuries. "Back in ...

If, as Tertullian taught, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church, in a liberal society church growth has to find its inspiration elsewhere. Western society was built partly on the premise ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis reflected on Friday on the life and death of Blessed Oscar Romero, who was recognized as a martyr earlier this year, stressing that each Christian ought to be ready to give ...

A former professor of Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s new press secretary, explores her enduring obsession with religious persecution and death. Four months and several thousand news cycles ago, Harvard ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis marked the feast day of St. Stephen on Dec. 26, noting that the martyrdom of the early Church saint helps prevent the Christmas season from being reduced to a trivial ...

People chant slogans against Congolese President Joseph Kabila as armed U.N. peacekeepers watch protesters December 20 in Kinshasa. (Credit: CNS photo/Thomas Mukoya, Reuters.) Listen Anti-Christian ...

As soon as he was shot, before he was even pronounced dead, Charlie Kirk was already being transformed into a martyr–not a political martyr who dies for a cause (although that language is developing ...

A final quote from Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez, given during the Q&A after his talk “The Meaning of Mercy” at Santa Clara University. (For the full video of his talk, click here. The quote below begins ...

Charlie Kirk is still winning,” Benny Johnson told a crowd of Baylor University students April 22 at the “This Is the Turning ...