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This edition is sponsored by Aspen Group |
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Many faithful Christians believe God is angry with them, writes Russell Moore, but the Bible tells us otherwise. Modern religion doesn’t always help. |
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A burial dispute involving a Dalit Catholic in India reveals the discrimination Dalits face even in the church. |
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Celebrating the 70th anniversary of its founding, CT announced Erik Petrik as its new chief content officer and incoming editor in chief. Petrik previously served as CT’s chief creative officer. |
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Artificial intelligence is weakening pastors’ authority, and Christians should not be receiving personal guidance from technology that won’t give an account for their souls. |
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From associate global editor Joyce Garcia: Editing international stories is a daily exercise in Googling (and learning). The internet rabbit holes have a zillion off-ramps where I have learned about dialects in Curaçao, where migrant workers in Singapore come from, and how the French government defines a heat wave. And no country has led me through more rabbit holes than India. |
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I now know what a lakh is and why youth activists proudly call themselves "cockroaches." Today’s story from Delhi-based correspondent Vikram Mukka takes a look at the plight of Dalit Christians, who are facing discrimination in their own churches—which is particularly tragic given that the lowest castes have been drawn to the faith’s message of equality and hope. Even so, as with so many things involving this nation of nearly 1.5 billion people, the issue is complicated by Indian laws and the stubborn, centuries-old complexities of caste. The rabbit holes ran deep on this one. |
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The World Changes. Christ Doesn’t. |
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Seventy years ago, in October 1956, the first issue of Christianity Today was mailed, and since then the ministry has helped people make sense of a changing world through a biblical lens. |
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Wars have come and gone. Nations have risen and fallen. Culture has changed. But Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. |
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Today in Christian History |
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October 5, 869: The Fourth Constantinople Council opens. During its six sessions, the council condemned iconoclasm and anathematized Constantinople Patriarch Photius. (It’s a story too complicated to go into here, but basically, there was a strong disagreement over who was the "real" patriarch, and whether Holy Spirit proceeded from the Son as well as the Father). |
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One of the most common questions Tyler Anson Newberry hears from young worship leaders is "How do I know if a song is good?" For Newberry, a Houston-based worship leader…
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This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. William Paul Young, Return to the Shack: A Journey Into Redemption (Apiary, 2026) The enormously successful, highly controversial novel The Shack…
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This summer, CT started running an occasional feature on reader responses. Here’s a new installment. Creation from Nothing Is Not the Big Bang I appreciate Brad East’s article asserting God’s…
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Last week, I opened a forwarded email from a parishioner with a curious subject line: "The Gospel According to Claude." The email linked to an article about pastors’ widespread use of Anthropic’s…
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For our 70th anniversary issue, we’re studying the past. Excerpts from our archives show evangelicals in Billy Graham’s day and our own grappling with our place in public life. A new book offers a fascinating history of Christian womanhood—but makes a misleading argument, according to our reviewer. We’re also peering into the future. Artificial intelligence, GLP-1 drugs, anti-aging surgeries, next steps for the pro-life movement: These are some of the issues likely to occupy Christians for the next seven decades. But mostly, we’re spending time in the present: With a Honduran man who found himself pastoring in a Massachusetts jail while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. With the evangelical owners of a traditional Korean spa engaged in a religious freedom showdown. With faithful believers doing good work—a chef, an architect, a ball boy, a teacher (who, at age 91, is older than CT!). And with the writers of our newly expanded testimony section, who found God’s faithfulness in the midst of alien conspiracies, after a bad accident, and via an envelope in a refrigerator. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amid our own era’s change, conflict, and uncertainty, we hope this issue declares that reassuring truth. |
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