Last April, four Wheaton College students were distributing evangelistic literature in Chicago’s Millennium Park. They were doing so in an area of the park that does not allow “the making of speeches and passing out of written communications.” When a...
Christian persecution
How Do Christians Respond to Persecution?
Over the past three years a group of scholars at the University of Notre Dame and Georgetown University have been studying persecuted Christians around the world. They call their project “Under Caesar’s Sword: Christian Response to Persecution.” I recently learned about...
The Benedict Option and Christian "Persecution" in America
Are American Christians being persecuted for their faith? I am not sure persecution is the right word. No one is coming into the homes of Christians with weapons threatening to kill them if they do not publicly denounce their faith....