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Hundreds of millions of dollars have flooded private Christian schools in North Carolina, but some view the Opportunity Scholarships program with skepticism. |
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Old age is not a problem to be solved. In a society that treasures youth and equates beauty with worth, three books offer a better perspective on growing older. |
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In his new book Backslide, Robert P. Jones wants Christians to stop undermining the gospel with their political actions. Still, rejecting evangelicalism isn’t going to restore democracy. |
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Telling stories wasn’t simply a way for Jesus to be a good first-century rabbi. It was also a way for him to be God, writes W. David O. Taylor in an excerpt from To Set the World Aflame. |
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On a new episode of The Bulletin, Andy Olsen reads his piece "The Pastor of Plymouth Jail," in which he reports from Boston on a Honduran immigrant’s ministry from inside an ICE detention center. |
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From features editor Taylor Berglund: Most interesting journalism, in my experience, starts with a question. In the case of my reporting on North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarships program, the question triggered when I first heard about Cary Christian School turning down roughly $2 million in state funding: Why would a small, private school willingly refuse millions of dollars offered with seemingly no strings attached? |
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That initial question caused me to look more into Opportunity Scholarships, which have been controversial in my home state of North Carolina. Liberal educators and government-skeptical libertarians alike have criticized them. However, I quickly found from talking to school headmasters across my state that this voucher program has plenty of avid supporters as well. One head of school told me that the program’s funding empowered his school to offer special education programs—something often outside the scope of most private Christian schools. |
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I tried my best to capture the impact and perception of the program. It may end up being a time capsule. In a political swing state like North Carolina, the future of this program could be dramatically affected by the results of the upcoming midterm elections. |
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Today in Christian History |
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September 8, 1845: English clergyman John Henry Newman converts to Roman Catholicism. Newman had been a leading member of the Oxford Movement, which aimed to reform the Church of England, but he became convinced that the Anglicans had lost their episcopal moorings and had wrongly severed themselves from apostolic succession. |
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Join historian George Marsden and CT Deputy Editor Bonnie Kristian for an exclusive CT livestream on September 9 at 1 p.m. EDT, exploring George’s article on how 1976 changed American evangelicalism.
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Conditions have not improved for Christians in Iran since pastor Ara Torosian came to the United States as a refugee in 2010. Torosian is grateful for the religious freedom he…
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Bryon Hand, an Atlanta-based Christian tech worker, was laid off last December from the payment platform Cash App. At that point, he had been working there for more than two…
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"Isn’t this the carpenter?" The people of Nazareth couldn’t make sense of what they were seeing when they encountered a Jesus who healed and taught with authority. Up until that…
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Recent years have seen a large shift away from public education in America. Beyond private school options, charter schools are popping up across the country, and homeschool curriculum options are…
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For our 70th anniversary issue, we’re studying the past. Excerpts from our archives show evangelicals in Billy Graham’s day and our own grappling with our place in public life. A new book offers a fascinating history of Christian womanhood—but makes a misleading argument, according to our reviewer. We’re also peering into the future. Artificial intelligence, GLP-1 drugs, anti-aging surgeries, next steps for the pro-life movement: These are some of the issues likely to occupy Christians for the next seven decades. But mostly, we’re spending time in the present: With a Honduran man who found himself pastoring in a Massachusetts jail while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. With the evangelical owners of a traditional Korean spa engaged in a religious freedom showdown. With faithful believers doing good work—a chef, an architect, a ball boy, a teacher (who, at age 91, is older than CT!). And with the writers of our newly expanded testimony section, who found God’s faithfulness in the midst of alien conspiracies, after a bad accident, and via an envelope in a refrigerator. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amid our own era’s change, conflict, and uncertainty, we hope this issue declares that reassuring truth. |
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