Tom Krattenmaker

Tim Tebow's riveting ride to the Super Bowl is over now, two steps short of pay dirt. What a ride it was: a faith-fueling story that instigated and renewed many a fan's interest in...

"The poor will NOT always be with us!"

Thus proclaims a freshly launched Christian campaign to end extreme poverty in this generation. Scott Todd's "58:" project declares that eradicating poverty is not only possible but probable, if the people of the church put their backs into it.

Such...

A person cannot worship both the Almighty and the Almighty Dollar, the prophets teach. It is easier for a camel to squeeze through a needle's eye, says Jesus, than for a rich man to get to heaven. Obsession with money? Nothing less than the root of all evil.

It's not...

Does the religious freedom of a small, separatist faith-healing church trump the rights of its members' children to live to adulthood?

The Oregon Legislature is finally saying "no" after the headline-grabbing deaths of three children whose parents belong to the Followers of Christ Church in Oregon City. These were children...

You get the sense, observing the shifting cultural landscape, that we've reached a point on gay rights that is similar to that moment in a football game, or an election, or a relationship, when you know it's over even though it's not over.

It appears increasingly obvious that social acceptance...

Judging from much-hyped story lines around this just-concluded Super Bowl, "Super Sunday" seems to have morphed into "Redemption Sunday."

Ben Roethlisberger's return to the pinnacle after the much-publicized sexual assault allegations and resulting suspension. Michael Vick's just-announced Comeback Player of the Year Award following his incarceration for dog-fighting crimes. The...

When Tyler Wigg-Stevenson contemplates the times ahead -- something this young Baptist preacher and Swarthmore College graduate tends to do a lot -- he sees two futures. In one, the world has rid itself of nuclear weapons. In the other, the world has been destroyed by them.

"Because...

This piece first ran in USA Today.

Jim Henderson is a recovering evangelist. Back in his soul-chasing, church-starting days, he began hearing a grating dissonance between his faith in Jesus and the way he went about winning new converts. Henderson realized he was doing unto others what he...

American Christianity is beginning to look a whole lot different.

Picture hundreds of jeans-clad 20- and 30-somethings filling the floor of a vintage opera hall in Chicago, armed with laptops, smart phones, and iPads. Picture a stage backed by a large screen, dark but for a large white image in...

Pro football superstar Ben Roethlisberger -- the Christian quarterback who used to take the field with the words "Playing for Jesus" scrawled on his cleats -- is almost making it too easy for the cynics and snark-mongers.

If you spend any time consuming sports media, you know that Roethlisberger in...