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This edition is sponsored by Aspen Group |
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James Talarico’s seminary degree and Bible talk isn’t enough to persuade evangelicals to support him, argues Bonnie Kristian. |
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As the Trump administration considers an overhaul of FEMA, some predominately Black denominations are strengthening their own disaster preparation and recovery plans. |
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Scripture tells us to pray for government leaders. But can we also pray against them? |
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From copy editor Elise Brandon: On a slow day, I clicked around the interwebs and found a treasure: a version of CT’s style guide published the year I was born. I was delighted to find that many of our rules and wordings have remained the same the past 24 years—but even more thrilled to see what we’ve changed. |
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We had entire entries for CD-ROM, chat room, home page (yes, spelled as two words), IM, Net (to mean "the Internet," which was also capitalized), teenager ("spell it solid"), videocasette, and World Wide Web—along with a beefy section on URL, which is apparently an abbreviation for "uniform resource locator" and was something of a novelty at the time. |
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Most delightful are the many bits of snark and personality where I could glimpse the pet peeves of editors past. I felt intimately connected to them over our shared disdain for writerly crutches like jargon, "which usually emerges from bureaucrats and other enemies of clear writing," and the passive voice—particularly, "why sentences are rendered more interesting by the avoidance of." |
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What if you could discover simple ways to reach and make space for those who have lost—or never had—a connection to the Church? |
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Aspen Group, in partnership with Barna research, created this free guide—5 Ways to Make Space for Those Outside the Church. Inside you’ll discover what people outside the church are looking for in church spaces, relevant data and insights, and practical ideas to make your own space more accessible and inviting. |
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Today in Christian History |
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June 10, 1692: Bridget Bishop becomes the first of 19 suspected witches hanged during the "Salem Witch Trials" (see issue 41: American Puritans). |
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Dozens of bare-chested men in leafy sashes and wreaths dance in formation down the road in Lossu 1, a village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. They wave colorful leaves…
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It may be important to teach children theology, but kids are much more likely to experience God and his love through something simpler: the presence of caring, trustworthy adults. That’s…
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Two centuries ago, most American magazine and newspaper editors professed Christian faith and wanted their publications to show it—but many lost their audiences when new publications offered street-level reporting that won more readers than…
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In early April, a 25-year-old student at Technical University of Mombasa in Kenya went viral for refusing to give his mother a larger portion of his paycheck to cover household…
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Throughout Scripture, God calls his people to be faithful and steadfast as we abide in him. Isaiah reminds us our faithfulness is fleeting "like the flowers of the field," yet our hope is secure when we place it in God, so our strength is renewed (Isa. 40:6, 31). In this issue, we consider stories of resilience. Historian Thomas S. Kidd shares missionary Adoniram Judson’s hardship and fortitude in Burma (now Myanmar). Emily Belz reports on Minnesota churches today that are supporting persecuted Karen Christians, also from Myanmar. Haleluya Hadero reports on groups who are determined to help Gary, Indiana, achieve a more resilient future. We also consider Tish Harrison Warren’s new book and feature an interview with her. Rooted in the person of Jesus Christ, Christian resilience is about more than having grit or bouncing back. |
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