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Christians and World Leaders Gather in Kyiv to Pray

Oksana Kravchuk emerged from her sleeping compartment on the train from Przemysl, Poland, to Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 22 and gazed out the window at the green pastures of her native homeland. She hadn’t slept much during the 10-hour overnight train ride, even though she was tired after traveling from Seattle to Poland. Kravchuk had Read more. The post Christians and World Leaders Gather in Kyiv to Pray appeared first on Christianity Today

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Settler Violence Threatens West Bank’s Last Christian Village

In early August, Joseph Hazboun visited a newly built home among the fields near Taybeh, considered the last Christian village in the West Bank. Its owner, a Palestinian Christian, claimed he could not access his property safely due to intimidation by Israeli settlers. As Hazboun inspected fencing that was reportedly cut to allow settlers’ sheep Read more. The post Settler Violence Threatens West Bank’s Last Christian Village appeared first on Christianity Today

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Meet the Trailblazers of America’s Early Years

This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Craig Fehrman, This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark (Avid Reader Press, 2026) The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) is one of the most compelling stories in American history. Searching for a water route to the Pacific, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led Read more. The post Meet the Trailblazers of America’s Early Years appeared first on Christianity Today

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Worship Leaders Feel the Strain of Performance Pressures

Seth Short has led worship for years. For the past seven months, the South Dakota native has been an associate pastor at The Point Church, a Wesleyan congregation in New Brunswick, Canada. His duties include directing the music ministry and leading worship, overseeing tech and production, managing youth ministry, and occasional preaching. Music ministry is Read more. The post Worship Leaders Feel the Strain of Performance Pressures appeared first on Christianity Today

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Feeling Good Is Not the Point of Worship

I’m starting to feel worse about feeling better after worship. Okay, mostly that’s a joke—and yet the more I eavesdrop on livestreamed worship services, the more sermon clips I watch on social media, the more contemporary Christian music I hear on Spotify, the more it seems to me that what many congregational leaders are aiming Read more. The post Feeling Good Is Not the Point of Worship appeared first on Christianity Today

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The Dolly Parton Songs That Revealed Her Faith, Doubt, and Hope

“One day as I prayed in earnest, I broke through some sort of spirit wall and found God,” Dolly Parton wrote in her 1994 autobiography. “Not as a chastising, bombastic bully but as a friend I could talk to on a one-to-one basis. He is our father, after all.” The multi-award-winning country singer, songwriter, actress, Read more. The post The Dolly Parton Songs That Revealed Her Faith, Doubt, and Hope appeared first on Christianity Today

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The False Dichotomy Between Protest and Prayer

The writer of Proverbs tells us “faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful” (27:6, KJV). What a friend evangelicals have in Charlie Dates. Dates, the senior pastor of Salem and Progressive Baptist Churches in Chicago, is among the most gifted preachers in the country. He pulls no Read more. The post The False Dichotomy Between Protest and Prayer appeared first on Christianity Today

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Listening to Readers, Episode 4

Earlier this summer, CT started running an occasional feature on reader responses. Here’s a new installment. Body Surveillance Shames What God Calls Good I am reminded of 1 Samuel 16:7, where Samuel is told that people judge by outward appearance but God looks at the heart. Nothing seems to have changed in today’s world. Instead Read more. The post Listening to Readers, Episode 4 appeared first on Christianity Today

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Dolly Parton Didn’t Need You to Love Her (and That’s Why Most of Us Did)

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Sometimes, when telling someone how to get to my house, I will say, “I’m just down the road from Dolly Parton.” For almost everybody in Nashville, that is almost a better locator than a pin on a GPS map. And it has never occurred to me, ever, Read more. The post Dolly Parton Didn’t Need You to Love Her (and That’s Why Most of Us Did) appeared first on Christianity Today

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Died: Bryant Myers, Who Walked with the Poor

Bryant Myers passed away on August 15 after many years of helping Christian relief and development organizations, seminaries, churches, and practitioners see poverty and the people experiencing it in new ways. He worked in both the practical setting of World Vision and the academic world at Fuller Theological Seminary. What stands out to me is Read more. The post Died: Bryant Myers, Who Walked with the Poor appeared first on Christianity Today

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The Malnourished Ministry of Relational AI

E. M. Forster’s 1909 short story “The Machine Stops” depicts a dystopian world of individuals kept apart from one another in pods. The culture Forster imagined discourages leaving one’s pod for embodied, human interaction, and—relieved of the need to work and having learned to frown upon original ideas—people entertain themselves by offering “lectures” on subjects using information Read more. The post The Malnourished Ministry of Relational AI appeared first on Christianity Today

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What Your Generosity Made Possible

When Christianity Today launched The One Kingdom Campaign, the Church was navigating deep division, cultural upheaval, political polarization, and spiritual uncertainty. We believed there was an opportunity to help the Church rediscover the beauty of Christ and his kingdom. Because of you, that vision became reality. Over the course of the campaign, 4,029 partners invested Read more. The post What Your Generosity Made Possible appeared first on Christianity Today

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