Philip Jenkins
Machanic Manyeruke and the gospel music scene in Africa
James Ault’s new documentary offers a window into a vast and exciting musical world.
The global church in an English village
The Londoners who come to Aylesford as pilgrims are an impressively polychrome microcosm of Christianity.
The Baptist War didn’t just end slavery in Jamaica
It utterly reshaped the country’s religious landscape.
When religion thrived in New York
Jon Butler’s dazzling study of faith and practice in a 20th-century metropolis
The fascinating story of the Ivory Coast’s mega-basilica
Why is the world’s largest church building in Yamoussoukro?
Islamic loyalty is declining in Iran
What’s replacing it?
To understand African Christianity, remember the Battle of Adwa
In 1896, a Christian army from Ethiopia defeated the Italians.
Mollywood produces films portraying Christians as a normal part of the South Indian landscape
A growing number of Malayalam-language films feature Christian characters or themes.
In the black Atlantic region, religious identity is formed by routes rather than roots
Faith shaped by migration, diaspora, and slavery
Brazil’s massive replica of the Temple of Solomon
The Pentecostals of the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus have a mighty vision.
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.