Winter 2026: Other Significant Articles
Jeremy Writebol, “Gen Z Is More Than Just Anxious: What the church gets wrong—and what it can get right—about forming a generation shaped by screens and longing for purpose” CT Pastors (September 8, 2025).
Craig S. Keener, “Apostles Today” YouTube (October 18, 2025).
Pastor John Lathrop says: “At the link you can hear Dr. Craig Keener speak about apostles (about 42 minutes long). In part of his teaching he shares the names of people in church history that he thinks qualify as apostles using Paul’s criteria for apostles.”
James F. Linzey, “International Pentecostal Leaders Minister in Coffeyville, Kansas: ORU Scholars Step into a Century-Old Prophetic Stream in Coffeyville” Christian Newswire (November 12, 2025).
Gordon Govier, “10 Striking Biblical Archaeology Stories of 2025: Research and natural disaster uncovered exciting finds from the ancient world” Christianity Today (December 23, 2025).
Craig S. Keener, “Yes, there IS a Christian genocide in Nigeria” Bible Background (December 28, 2025).
Craig Keener introduces this 26 minute video: “I am not interested in defending the partisan right or left, and that’s not what this is about. The suffering in northern Nigeria didn’t start recently—it’s been going on for decades. I have interviewed many friends from northern Nigeria, plus I depend on reports I received already when I taught there in the 1990s. In some places, there is ‘religious cleansing’ taking place, alongside other terrorist activity.”

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Craig Keener, “Differing with John MacArthur on 1 Cor 14” Bible Background (January 5, 2026).
Joy Ren, “Influential Chinese House Church Faces New Crackdown” Christianity Today (January 16, 2026).
Updated on January 21, 2026: “Two of the detained face charges of ‘inciting subversion of state power.’”
Frank Viola, “50 Things the Holy Spirit Does” Frank Viola Unfiltered (January 25, 2026).
Bonnie Kristian, “Protesting in Church Is Wrong. So Is Immigration Theater” Christianity Today (January 20, 2026).
The subtitle of this opinion piece by Christianity Today deputy editor Bonnie Kristian reads: “Demonstrators should not disrupt worship services. ICE should be competent, cool-headed, and constrained by the Constitution.”
Craig Keener, “A charismatic view of suffering?: Suffering and baptism in the Spirit in Mark’s introduction” Bible Background (March 2, 2026).
Carey Nieuwhof and James Sells, “Reclaiming the Church’s Role in Mental Health: We have a holy opportunity to return to our roots—a chance to recover the kind of care that once marked every aspect of the early church” Leadership Journal (Fall 2025).
This article is from CT Pastors, Volume 38 of Leadership Journal.
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