On April 10 at 5:07 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, Integrity, the crew-named Artemis II spacecraft, splashed down off the coast of San Diego after its ten-day mission around the moon and back. Driving on a freeway a few hundred miles north of their landing spot, I listened live to NASA’s radio broadcast. The crew—which is the first to return to the moon since 1972’s Apo...

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Early in the morning on February 28, Ed Martin awoke in his home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, rolled over in bed to check his phone, and let out a slow sigh. The United States and Israel had attacked Iran. With a sense of resignation, the 78-year-old went to the computer in his bedroom office to learn more. Following weeks of negotiation and military buildup, in the first 24 h...

Judging by current public discourse, one might think the Bible only addresses politics once, in Romans 13. “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established,” the apostle Paul wrote (v. 1). But are we to understand this as the only model for Christian political witness? Is Paul’s instruction a universal mand...