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A year after his release, Taiwanese American preacher David Lin looks back at the goodness and horrors he saw during 18 years in a Chinese prison. |
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From Haejin and Makoto Fujimura: The most radical thing we can do today is reclaim our humanity—built on beauty and justice. |
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On The Russell Moore Show, author Christine Emba talks about the “quiet catastrophe” of normalizing pornography. |
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Preaching Eugenics and the nice, liberal Christians who denied the imago Dei. |
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From Asia editor Angela Fulton: When I heard that a prisoner swap between China and the US had led to the release of missionary David Lin, I immediately reached out to his daughter, Alice Lin, to see if we could get an interview with David once he was ready to talk. I had met Alice back in 2019 as she began to advocate for her father’s release as he was serving a life sentence for “contract fraud.” |
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I didn’t hear back from Alice for months and figured that it wasn’t going to happen. But then in April, I received an email from Alice saying that they were finally settled—her dad had replaced the teeth that had fallen out from his time in prison, and his health was stable—and were happy to chat with me. |
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It just worked out that I was about to make a trip to Southern California, where the Lins live, so I could meet them in person. It felt as if God was putting the pieces into place to allow for this article to come together, which is the first time David and Alice have shared their family’s heartbreaking and hopeful story since his release. |
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Today in Christian History |
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August 14, 1248: Construction of the Cologne Cathedral begins. Workers completed it on the same date in 1880. |
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Brother Andrew once famously asked God to close a guard’s eyes so he could slip Bibles illegally over a border. Then he spent decades working to open Christians’s eyes to…
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One recent Sunday, our church service concluded with the song, “Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us.” First published by British hymnwriter Dorothy Ann Thrupp in 1836, the hymn is simple…
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I’d seen many sunsets before, but never like this. Sitting high up on a desert dune at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, my wife and I gazed westward…
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I grew up watching Hong Kong flicks where jiangshi—creepy vampires or zombies with unkempt hair and pale skin—would stick their arms out stiffly and jump up and down, approaching with…
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As developments in artificial intelligence change daily, we’re increasingly asking what makes humanity different from the machines we use. In this issue, Emily Belz introduces us to tech workers on the frontlines of AI development, Harvest Prude explains how algorithms affect Christian courtship, and Miroslav Volf writes on the transhumanist question. Several writers call our attention to the gifts of being human: Haejin and Makoto Fujimura point us to beauty and justice, Kelly Kapic reminds us God’s highest purpose isn’t efficiency, and Jen Pollock Michel writes on the effects of Alzheimer’s . We bring together futurists, theologians, artists, practitioners, and professors to consider how technology shapes us even as we use it. |
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