Christianity Today has launched a new project, This Is Christianity Today, that throughout 2011 will showcase Christian thought leaders and church leaders highlighting the importance and distinctiveness of the non-profit communications ministry and its role in serving the church.

Our thoughts, concerns, and prayers go out to those affected by the Japanese 8.9 earthquake and resulting tsunami on March 11th. Millions of viewers were stunned by the devastation that took place as the debris laden tsunami rolled across the northeast coast of Japan.

Everywhere one looks, traditional, biblical models of family and marriage are under assault. Have the efforts to defend it been misplaced?

I refuse to be a Christian pessimist. Here are three reasons why I can face the future with hope.

By J. Lee Grady

Terrorist bombings. Middle East turmoil. $3.95 gas. Killer floods. Moral breakdown. Fragile economies.

No wonder Charlie Sheen is going crazy!

Seriously, there’s a lot of bad news out there. Negative headlines make people fearful, agitated, addicted or even sick. But from what I’ve read in my Bible, Christians should not freak out every time a gloomy cloud settles over us. We, of all people on earth, should be full of hope.

Following a March 11 earthquake and subsequent tsunami which hit Japan, assessments are continuing to be made on damage and relief efforts.

In this guest column John Dyer revisits a topic Christianity Today examined a decade ago: how the internet is shaping theological debate.

It might be a peculiar call to make in a church, but The United Methodist Church is asking its members to fast from alcohol during Lent.

To be clear, the 7.8 million-member denomination affirms abstinence from alcohol. But “Alcohol Free Lent” is meant to start discussions on “the elephant in the room – alcohol use among our members.”

News of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan — an event that triggered a 32-foot tsunami and has killed several hundred people so far — is dominating media headlines around the world even as the ripple effects are not yet fully understood.

President Steven J. Land has announced the Pentecostal Theological Seminary has just been approved for a change in degree nomenclature as follows: