Philip Jenkins
What happened in Africa after the pandemic of 1918
Something as big as a plague always remakes the religious landscape.
Is Filipino cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle really “the Asian Francis”?
The media portrays him as a progressive. It’s not that simple.
The misión integral of Protestant liberation theologians
Samuel Escobar, René Padilla, and other Latin American evangelicals—and how their activism was overshadowed
Christianity’s explosive growth in Kenya
A nation’s rapid population growth and its complex religious impacts
In Europe, church taxes are voluntary. People pay them anyway.
But for how long?
Daniel Ortega’s slide into corruption and authoritarianism
Nicaragua’s liberator has become its dictator.
Major stories in American Christianity of the 2010s
How faith has been shaped by Obergefell, the Charleston murders, Me Too, and more
Russia’s royal saints return
The cult of Tsar Nicholas II and the resurrection of Russian Orthodox nationalism
A look at faith in film over the last decade
At a time of rapid secularization, filmmakers seem intrigued—if sometimes also repelled—by religion.
Is there a link between fertility and faith in South Korea?
Buddhism offers a clear answer. With Christianity, it’s more complex.
Sri Lanka’s religious fault lines
The island is a microcosm of the world’s religions—and of their wars.
Take & read: Global Christianity
New books that are shaping discussions about global Christianity
On Herrens veje, church leaders have to justify their existence
The Danish TV series portrays the choppy waters of European Christianity.
Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir’s life tells the story of Lebanon
He was a patriarch in the Maronite Church, a diplomatic interfaith leader, and a local power broker.
The Orthodox in Ukraine and their rival churches
The creation of a new body echoes old hostilities.
Christian martyrs in orange jumpsuits
The 21 men murdered in 2015 will be remembered long after the era of ISIL is forgotten.
How Crusades-era literature shaped the idea of the Christian West
Jay Rubinstein places himself in the apocalyptic mindset of authors like Joachim of Fiore.
Decline and revival in the Church of England
Future historians will identify the past quarter century as a time of real excitement and innovation.
The Philippines is 80% Catholic. President Duterte is ferociously anti-Catholic.
How on earth did this happen?
Mixtec people and their voices
Behind Roma is a complex history of indigenous lives and faiths.