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Is Kemi Badenoch too brutal for her own good?

Kemi Badenoch looked like - not for the first time - she was going to make the Chancellor cry in the Commons today. She accused her of treachery and betrayal in her behaviour towards the PM. Badenoch then turned her sights on Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, and accused her of being a spiteful class warrior. Why was the Tory leader so vicious in her seeing off of Keir Starmer and his team? Is this the result of being terminally online? Is it a reflection of a more authentic politi...

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Culture

How to Have a Patriotic Worship Service Without Making America the Point

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. A few weeks ago, I wrote here that the 250th anniversary of the United States deserves a better gospel than the false one of Christian nationalism. A pastor wrote in to ask what his church should do on the Sunday before this important Independence Day. Here’s what I told Read more. The post How to Have a Patriotic Worship Service Without Making America the Point appeared first on Christianity Today

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Culture

Social Darwinism, Social Universalism, and a Biblical Alternative

Henny Youngman began his famous comedy routine, “Take my wife—please.” I’m beginning this series of columns, “Take Gil Rife Jr.—please.” I spent hours with Gil at Eden Village, a Missouri homeless community where I stayed for six days in October 2023. Of all the homeless people in this series of columns, Gil is the only one Read more. The post Social Darwinism, Social Universalism, and a Biblical Alternative appeared first on Christianity Today

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Geopolitics

Concerned about the Iran Deal, Iranian Christians Look to God

A few days after the Iran war began on February 28, a Christian convert and her family fled Tehran for their villa near the Caspian Sea. She hoped to avoid the airstrikes hitting the capital, but soon realized she faced a new danger. “I’m terrified to death,” she told Nahid Sepehri, executive director of the Read more. The post Concerned about the Iran Deal, Iranian Christians Look to God appeared first on Christianity Today

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