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Witch hunts around the world
People are being persecuted by anti-witchcraft vigilantes. The church can help.
by Philip Jenkins
Psalm 91 in every time and place
“No evil shall befall us,” said St. Anthony in the desert, preachers during the Rwandan genocide, and Americans after 9/11.
India's constitution is firmly secular and democratic. Yet in recent years, Christians and Muslims have faced persecution.
selected by Damayanthi M. A. Niles
Christianity is thriving in Singapore. And in this case, most of the usual explanations for Christian expansion in Asia fall flat.
selected by Philip Jenkins and Grant Wacker
Painter Sawai Chinnawong saturates the outpouring of the Spirit with the colors Thai art traditionally associates with the holy.
by Amos Yong and Jonathan A. Anderson
R. S. Sugirtharajah sees both sides of the mirror: Christian views of Asian faiths and the reciprocal gaze of Asian believers.
Any account of Asian Christianity must deal with minority peoples. One large and diverse region has more than 100 million people—many of them Christian.
It's ironic that multicultural approaches to Christianity are dismissed as novel or “politically correct.” They are deeply rooted in our past.
Ever since Westerners discovered Asian cultures they have been intrigued by possible relationships between Christianity and Buddhism.