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What Israel’s Only Female Judge Teaches Us About Leadership

The account of God’s interaction with people is one story after another of him doing the unexpected. Time after time God showed his people that he doesn’t think the way they think and he doesn’t work the way they work. Person after person in Scripture was surprised by God: Noah was surprised when God told Read more. The post What Israel’s Only Female Judge Teaches Us About Leadership appeared first on Christianity Today

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Instagram Plus Adds Nothing

Bad news: Instagram is now offering “more of what you love” for $3.99 a month. The app’s infrastructure—static grid posts, short-form video reels, and fleeting stories—isn’t changing. But Instagram Plus’s upgrades will offer a new (and harmful) way to navigate its digital landscape. What are the supposed perks? Instagram Plus members will be able to Read more. The post Instagram Plus Adds Nothing appeared first on Christianity Today

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The Christians You Need Might Be the Christians Next Door

Every generation of Christians replays the age-old debate: What does it mean to be in the world but not of it? The radicals insist you must sell all you have and give the money to the poor (Matt. 19:21). You must go into full-time vocational ministry or be a missionary to an unreached people group. Read more. The post The Christians You Need Might Be the Christians Next Door appeared first on Christianity Today

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Nigerian Christians Join Attempts to Deradicalize Terrorists

On a spring night in the mid-1990s, a teenage Ibrahim Alhassan awoke to a voice calling for Christians to step out of their dormitory rooms at Sani Dingyadi Unity Secondary School in Sokoto state, northwest Nigeria. A group of Muslim boys then ordered about 10 Christian high school students, including Alhassan, to crawl on their Read more. The post Nigerian Christians Join Attempts to Deradicalize Terrorists appeared first on Christianity Today

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Your Kids Don’t Need the ‘Perfect School.’ They Need a Savior.

Every August, the same question nags me: Am I making the right choice for my kids’ education? In ten years of motherhood, I’ve read numerous books about child development, family discipleship, and education. (Ever an eager beaver, I began this reading during my first pregnancy.) I’ve talked with proponents of homeschooling, private Christian schools, and Read more. The post Your Kids Don’t Need the ‘Perfect School.’ They Need a Savior. appeared first on Christianity Today

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Should Elon Musk ‘Make Like Zacchaeus’?

Earlier this summer, CT started running an occasional feature on reader responses. Here’s a new installment. The Pro-Life Movement’s Widening Division The pro-life abolitionist approach risks repeating the trajectory of the 2010 Tea Party movement’s: initial energy and primary successes followed by electoral losses, internal GOP divisions, and diminished policy impact. Both movements prioritize ideological absolutism over Read more. The post Should Elon Musk ‘Make Like Zacchaeus’? appeared fi...

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How Jesus Sounded to a First-Century Galilean

This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Scot McKnight, Jesus, People, Pharisees: Exploring the Conflict in Galilee (Fortress Press, 2026) On more than a dozen occasions in this provocative book, Scot McKnight claims the Gospels are exaggerating. Some of these exaggerations, of numbers and geographical reach, he regards as relatively minor and forgivable. Read more. The post How Jesus Sounded to a First-Century Galilean appeared first on Christianity Today

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The Summer of Taking Christian Nationalism Seriously

At denominational gatherings across the country this summer, one topic of conversation has been a near constant: Christian nationalism. Denominations discuss and debate a wide range of subjects at their annual conventions, occasionally making headlines, as Southern Baptists did in June with a vote to ban women from preaching. But among Baptists, Presbyterians, and other Read more. The post The Summer of Taking Christian Nationalism Seriously appeared first on Christianity Today

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Culture

A ‘Spiritual Revival for One’ Is No Real Revival

Every semester, I give a lecture to my undergraduates about evangelicalism. Since I teach at a Catholic university in Manhattan, you might expect my students to know at least something about this topic. I always begin the lecture with a photo of Billy Graham and ask, “Who is this?” Each time, it’s the same reaction: Read more. The post A ‘Spiritual Revival for One’ Is No Real Revival appeared first on Christianity Today

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The Curly, Coily Hair God Made

When I was in sixth grade, I learned my hair made me different. I was 11 and a new student in a predominately white private school in Columbia, South Carolina. My mother had moved me there from a majority Black charter school where I had sat in classrooms among little Black girls who sported multicolored Read more. The post The Curly, Coily Hair God Made appeared first on Christianity Today

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Summer Breaks and Anxieties

The Syllabus is a column that features student opinions on timely national and international topics. We aim to highlight how evangelical students in the US are thinking about important issues and how the Christian faith informs their worldview. Students should use this link to submit a response for August’s prompt: “Online gambling has ballooned in Read more. The post Summer Breaks and Anxieties appeared first on Christianity Today

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Is Homelessness a Game of Musical Chairs?

The columns I wrote earlier this month about adverse childhood experiences, alcoholism, and addiction as drivers of homelessness are all beside the point, some advocates say. The New York Times in 2022 called homelessness a simple game of “musical chairs: Imagine there are 10 people for nine chairs. One person, weighed down by poor health, Read more. The post Is Homelessness a Game of Musical Chairs? appeared first on Christianity Today

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