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Christian left
Christian left: a current of left-leaning Christian politics and theology, spanning British Christian socialism (1848, CSM 1960, now Christians on the Left), the American Social Gospel of Rauschenbusch, and Latin American liberation theology.
Christian Lindner
Christian Lindner (born 1979, Wuppertal), German FDP politician, party chairman 2013–2025 and Federal Finance Minister 2021–2024; dismissed by Scholz over the debt brake, led FDP to 2025 election defeat, then withdrew from politics.
Christian Longo
Christian Michael Longo is an American murderer who killed his wife and three children on the Oregon coast in December 2001 and was sentenced to death.
Christian Manuel
Christian Manuel is an American Democratic politician who represents District 22 in the Texas House of Representatives, after a decade as chief of staff to his predecessor, Joseph Deshotel.
Christian Medical College Vellore
Christian Medical College Vellore (CMC), founded 1900 by Ida Sophia Scudder, is a private Christian minority medical college and 3,686-bed hospital network in Tamil Nadu, ranked third in India's NIRF medical rankings.
Christian Meermann
Christian Meermann is a Berlin-based venture capitalist and Founding Partner of Cherry Ventures, the seed firm he co-founded in 2012 after serving as Zalando's chief marketing officer.
Christian Meisel
Christian Meisel is a physician-executive and co-founder of Hedera Dx, a Swiss liquid-biopsy cancer diagnostics company founded in 2021, after senior oncology roles at Roche.
Christian Menefee
Christian D. Menefee, born 1988, is a Democratic U.S. Representative for Texas's 18th District since 2026, previously Harris County Attorney, elected in 2020 as the youngest and first Black attorney to hold that office.
Christian mission
A Christian mission, studied as missionology, is the Church's organized effort to spread the Christian faith beyond its boundaries, also naming the sending body or field station.
Christian Mitchell
Christian Mitchell, Chicago Democratic politician: Illinois House 26th District 2013–2019, Pritzker deputy governor 2019–2023 (CEJA, Rebuild Illinois), University of Chicago VP, and 2026 lieutenant governor running mate.
Christian monasticism
Christian monasticism, also called monasticism in Christianity, is the practice of monks and nuns living under a rule in prayer, work, and reading, begun in the Egyptian deserts in the fourth century.
Christian mortalism
Christian mortalism, also called conditional immortality or soul sleep, is the belief that the soul is not naturally immortal and the whole person dies until the resurrection. Covers thnetopsychism, psychopannychism, Arnobius, the 1513 Lateran decree, English Reformation mortalists, and Adventist and Jehovah's Witness adherents.
Christian music
Christian music is music whose lyrics, function, or performance context are Christian, ranging from liturgical chant and congregational hymns to gospel and contemporary Christian music, a fast-growing genre.
Christian mysticism
Christian mysticism, also called mystical Christianity, is the strand of Christian belief and practice concerned with direct awareness of God's presence and, at its limit, union with God.
Christian mythology
Christian mythology is the body of traditional sacred stories of Christianity, from Genesis and the Gospels to saints' legends and apocalyptic tales; also called the Christian mythos, studied through comparative mythology, medieval legend, and Bultmann's demythologization.
Christian name
Christian name, also called baptismal name: the name given at baptism, or loosely a person's first name. First recorded 1540–50; codified saint-name rule at Trent (1566); now replaced in official use by given name.
Christian nationalism
Christian nationalism is a political ideology fusing Christian and national identity, holding that the United States is a Christian nation whose laws should reflect Christianity. PRRI's 2025 survey finds 11% Adherents and 21% Sympathizers, concentrated among white evangelicals and Republicans.
Christian nationalism in the United States
Christian nationalism in the United States is a set of beliefs and political claims fusing Christianity with American civic life, a contested label scholars define in several ways.
Christian pacifism
Christian pacifism is the Christian ethic of refusing war and lethal violence, based on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount and love of enemies. Historically a minority tradition (Anabaptists, Quakers, Historic Peace Churches) opposed to just-war teaching, it now shapes conscientious objection and Catholic debates over nonviolence.
Christian persecution in Edo-period Japan
Christian persecution in Edo-period Japan (キリシタン弾圧) was the Tokugawa shogunate's campaign to eliminate Christianity from the early 1600s, using executions, forced apostasy, and temple registration until 1873.
Christian population growth
Christian population growth tracks the change in the world's largest religious group. It reached 2.3 billion by 2020, though its share of the global population fell to 29%.
Christian Porter
Christian Porter (born 1970, Perth) is an Australian former Liberal minister: WA Attorney-General and Treasurer, federal Social Services minister, Attorney-General 2017-2021, later a Perth barrister after Robodebt and a 2021 resignation.
Christian prayer
Christian prayer is the practice by which Christians address God, ranging from set liturgical prayers at fixed hours to spontaneous prayer; 44% of US adults pray daily.
Christian Rabjerg Madsen
Christian Rabjerg Madsen is a Danish Social Democrat politician serving as Minister for Nature and Animal Welfare since 2026, after being the party's political spokesperson from 2022.
Christian radio
Christian radio is US AM/FM broadcasting of Christian music, sermons, and talk; over 4,000 stations, about 25% of all US radio stations, reach 98% of adults, dominated by CCM, worship music, and syndicated shows like K-LOVE.
Christian reconstructionism
Christian reconstructionism, also called Christian Reconstruction, Theonomy, or Dominion Theology, is a movement that seeks to bring every area of life, especially civil government, under biblical law.
Christian Reformed Church in North America
The Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) is a Reformed denomination of about 1,000 congregations in the United States and Canada, founded in 1857 by Dutch immigrants.
Christian revival
Christian revival, also known as revival of religion, is a period when a Christian community experiences renewed religious experience, holy living, and evangelism, attributed to the Holy Spirit.
Christian right
Christian right, or Religious Right, a US political movement since the late 1970s mobilizing conservative Christians on abortion, school prayer, and family issues; Moral Majority, Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family, GOP alignment, litigation, and transnational activity.
Christian rock
Christian rock, also called Christian rock and roll, is rock music made for the Christian popular music market, rooted in the Jesus People movement of the late 1960s.