Three churches, two iguanas, one Sunday
SOUTHWEST RANCHES, FLA. — I hit the church-hopping trifecta, visiting three South Florida congregations in one Sunday morning. The trip was a last-minute, skymiles-burning endeavor…
Insight
Should we keep printing this paper?
If you didn’t see the October 2025 print issue of The Christian Chronicle, you didn’t miss it. We did. We made the painful decision not…
Did Jesus come to bring division?
SINGAPORE — A single Bible verse can ruin a perfectly good sermon. A few months back, minister Mit Vikraman invited me to this bustling, business-minded…
‘One man with God is everything’
CALLIAQUA, ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES — Before I got up to speak, brother Maxwell Ince said a prayer for me. “Lord, I’m not sure…
Despised people live ‘at the heart of shalom’
FUSHË KRUJË, ALBANIA — Everybody hates the Roma. Animosities abound in southeastern Europe. Croats dislike Serbs and vice versa. Serbs distrust Albanians, who feel a…
T-shirt evangelism uses ‘cymbalism’
OKLAHOMA CITY — What’s your most evangelistic T-shirt? I’ve got a bunch from my church — youth camps where I was a counselor, mission trips,…
Ada: home of Blake, Babylon and bats
ADA, OKLA. — Welcome to “God’s Country.” No, I’m not referring to Morgan Wallen’s irksome social media post after his abrupt exit from “Saturday Night…
‘If you become a Christian, you will travel’
BRANSON, MO. — From now on, whenever I write a story for The Christian Chronicle, I need to ask myself, “How will this sound in…
‘Statesboro Blues’
STATESBORO, GA. — She was Savannah’s “Lady of 6,000 Songs,” a nickname given to her by legendary lyricist Johnny Mercer. Emma Thompson Kelly performed weekly…
Pope Francis yearned to be with ‘the least of these’
KOŠICE, SLOVAKIA — I’ve traveled to a few places that made me uncomfortable, even scared, in my 20-plus years with The Christian Chronicle. The community…
