Author: Shalem John

Last week, an illegal gambling probe exposed the NBA’s Terry Rozier, a guard with the Miami Heat, and over 30 other individuals in professional basketball and beyond. Since sports betting became legal in 2018, sports leagues have developed close relationships with gambling companies. In these connections, problematic behavior can thrive. The Bulletin sat down with editor at large Russell Moore and Isaac Rose-Berman, a fellow at the American Institute for Boys and Men, to discuss smartphone betting, the most popular form of sports gambling today. They talk about why Christians are quiet and how the church can step up for…

All Kathryn Roelofs knows about her birth is that it took place in Seoul in 1984. Her unmarried mother put her up for adoption right away. At four and a half months old, she flew to the US, one of five babies traveling with two individuals affiliated with Holt Children’s Services of Korea. The people these South Korean children would call their parents—a group of families from the Christian Reformed Church—waited on the other side. Roelofs grew up in Denver, a mostly white community where she rarely saw people who looked like her. Her birth mother had named her Tae…

The book of 2 John is one of the shortest books in the New Testament, consisting of a single chapter with only 13 verses. Despite its brevity, it carries profound theological and practical significance for early Christians and remains relevant for believers today. Traditionally, it is attributed to John the Apostle, the same author of the Gospel of John, 1 John, 3 John, and Revelation. The letter is addressed to “the elect lady and her children,” which may refer either to a specific Christian woman and her family or, symbolically, to a local church and its members. The epistle’s central…