Martin Saunders
Why do evangelists exaggerate?
There's a little in-joke in the evangelical subculture around people who share the gospel for a living.
Exhilarating Spider-Man: Homecoming has an important lesson for Christian leaders
15 years, six movies and three different Spider-Men later, this is still a story about how a person's character is as important as their gifts.
What is an 'active follower of Jesus'?
While 13 per cent of young people described themselves as practising Christians and even more as 'Christ followers', what kind of Christianity is it that they're practising?
Your family is in serious danger. What are you going to do about it?
That's a pretty arresting headline, right? Perhaps a tiny bit manipulative, but certainly difficult to ignore.
New stats say 1 in 5 teens are 'active Christians' â but do the numbers really add up?
A new piece of research suggests that 21 per cent of young people (aged between 11 and 18) describe themselves at 'active followers of Jesus'.
YouTube is dominating youth culture â so how will the Church respond?
Many young people spend hours every night on the platform, watching, sharing, making and curating content.
New Flatliners reboot asks: Is there life â and evil â after death?
It's been 27 years since the first Flatliners movie â a classic '90s shocker about five medical students who discover a way to tap into the afterlife through brief bursts of death.
Why Tim Farron's resignation speech is a challenge for every Christian
He didn't just resign, he evangelised to a nation.
The Mummy review: evil has never been so bad
Universal is attempting to move into the crowded hero marketplace by backing evil, and from this evidence it really doesn't offer a compelling experience for the viewer.
Paws for prayer: 7 amazing pictures of Jesus with animals
This week has been a huge and historic one on both sides of the Atlantic. These are serious times, and they demand heart warming silliness.
The Shack review: is the movie version heretical⦠and does it matter?
A film opens this week that arguably presents the most significant opportunity in living memory for Christians to introduce their faith to their friends through an engagement with mainstream culture. Yet so far, excitement about the film has been strangely muted, because there's just one small problem: the film is based on controversial best-seller The Shack.
Wonder Woman's unexpected theme: Amazing Grace
Wonder Woman packs a punch - this is a film that restores your faith on several fronts, and is that rare and glorious cinematic treat: a film of which little was expected, and which well surpasses those expectations.
'I'm not afraid of controversy': Exclusive interview with The Shack director Stuart Hazeldine
Despite the apparently un-cinematic concept, and the warnings from more conservative Christians to avoid anything Shack-shaped, British director Stuart Hazeldine's movie version has been a box office triumph. At time of writing, it's closing in on an impressive $100 million worldwide gross.
A pastor claims he has God's phone number. Can he help us think differently about prayer?
As if Christians didn't already have enough of a reputation for being somewhere on the spectrum between mad and weird, we've now seen the emergence of a pastor who says he had God's personal phone number, and regularly calls him on his cell.
Who should play TV's 'New Pope'?
Jude Law was cast as he Young Pope. With a casting search underway to play the central role in a new drama, The New Pope, Christian Today thought it would be helpful to present the producers with a few options. Here's our entirely speculative list of actors who'd each bring something very different to the role of Pope
The 84 thoughts you have during a contemporary worship service
Do you stand up or sit down, and if so when? Martin Saunders lists some of the things that go through our heads during contemporary evangelical worship