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It’s Not Loving to Withhold Truth from an Apathetic Church

Growing up, I often heard one statement in my church youth group: “The most loving thing you can do is tell someone the truth.” The statement became especially potent whenever we gathered for a weekend at the Youth Evangelism Conference in my home state of Oklahoma to be reminded of the Great Commission: It’s not Read more. The post It’s Not Loving to Withhold Truth from an Apathetic Church appeared first on Christianity Today

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How Evangelicals Reacted to 9/11

Liberty University students who got up for an early class on September 11, 2001, may have skimmed a copy of the Liberty Champion at breakfast in the dining hall. If they did, they may have read about the university’s Spiritual Emphasis Week, or about renovations to the major academic building on campus, or about how international students added Read more. The post How Evangelicals Reacted to 9/11 appeared first on Christianity Today

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The Post-9/11 ‘Age of Liberty’ Never Came. What Now?

“We inherited two worlds—one of hope to which we were bred; one of a certain disillusion which we had discovered for ourselves.” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote those words of the 1920s, speaking to a generation that had served in World War I and often followed it with hedonistic excess. Great art and fortunes were made in the Read more. The post The Post-9/11 ‘Age of Liberty’ Never Came. What Now? appeared first on Christianity Today

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How to Cultivate Health and Harmony in Your Home

This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Jennifer Anderson, Feed Them Well: A Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident Eaters for Life (Flatiron Books, 2026) The process of teaching kids what to eat—and how—can force us to address our own sometimes-dysfunctional relationships with food, diet culture, and bodily autonomy. For example, my husband likes Read more. The post How to Cultivate Health and Harmony in Your Home appeared first on Christianity Today

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How a Kidnapping Shaped a Missionary Couple’s Ministry

Sitting alone in a tepee-like shelter made from sticks collected by a dry African riverbed in 1974, 24-year-old Debbie Dortzbach stitched the words of Psalm 34:4 onto a white bandage from her captors’ helicopter first aid kit. The phrase “I sought the Lord and he heard me” alternated colors, as thread was in short supply. Read more. The post How a Kidnapping Shaped a Missionary Couple’s Ministry appeared first on Christianity Today

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When Nazi Prisoners Worshiped with Iowa Farmers

On April 9, 1944, a line of cars carrying members of a church choir passed by a guard station and through a break in a fence capped with barbed wire. The choir, along with a church organist and a minister from Trinity Lutheran Church, had agreed to lead a worship service for inmates at a Read more. The post When Nazi Prisoners Worshiped with Iowa Farmers appeared first on Christianity Today

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Christians Debate Polygamy after Netflix Show Hits No. 1

This summer, a new South African Netflix drama called The Polygamist resurrected the debate over multiple-partner marriages across the continent, dividing even some Christians. The 22-episode Zulu-language series chronicles the double life of a Johannesburg-based businessman with three wives—including one secret one—and a mistress. The Polygamist chronicles the unraveling of the Gomora family and business Read more. The post Christians Debate Polygamy after Netflix Show Hits No. 1 appeared fi...

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Life After 14 Months Trapped in Cyberscam Centers

Since Marcus testified against a major scam syndicate in a Manila courtroom in September 2023, the Burmese national has needed to hide his identity and constantly look over his shoulder, fearful that he would be re-enslaved, tortured, or killed. In May, the Philippine court announced its verdict: The three Chinese leaders who had enslaved him Read more. The post Life After 14 Months Trapped in Cyberscam Centers appeared first on Christianity Today

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Hispanic Pentecostal Leaders Urge Immigration Protections

Fifty Hispanic Pentecostal bishops and denominational leaders, who represent more than 21,000 congregations across the United States and Latin America, gathered in Washington on Tuesday to press the Trump administration to extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for about 170,000 Salvadoran immigrants. Their legal immigration status through the program is set to expire on Read more. The post Hispanic Pentecostal Leaders Urge Immigration Protections appeared first on Christianity T...

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Review: ‘The Uprising’

“I wish to be Providence myself,” proclaims the titular hero of Alexandre Dumas’s Count of Monte Cristo, “for I feel that the finest, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.” I’m reading Monte Cristo right now, and that chilling quote has been stuck in my head. It came to mind Read more. The post Review: ‘The Uprising’ appeared first on Christianity Today

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The Trump-Era Laughter at Immigrant Suffering Is Deforming Our Souls

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Did you hear the one about the Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs? Wasn’t it hilarious? Here’s the setup: A community of vulnerable people, escaping danger to their lives in their home country, are quietly minding their business in a community, working long hours at hard jobs. Lots of Read more. The post The Trump-Era Laughter at Immigrant Suffering Is Deforming Our Souls appeared first on Christianity Today

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Rejecting Evangelicalism Is Not How We Restore Democracy

Donald Trump is the American equivalent of Adolf Hitler, Robert P. Jones argues in Backslide: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy. He will destroy American democracy if his reign of power is not stopped. And as for Christians who support Trump, they’re guilty of “apostasy,” Jones says. That means we Read more. The post Rejecting Evangelicalism Is Not How We Restore Democracy appeared first on Christianity Today

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