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Despite writing for a mostly Hindu audience, Indian columnist Robert Clements infuses his writing with biblical truth. |
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From executive editor for news and global Marvin Olasky: Journalists frequently cover horror. The goal is to report, not scream, but as Walter Cronkite once showed, media leaders are human beings, although some people are fooled at first glance. |
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Cronkite, a CBS anchor, was “the most trusted man in America” according to one opinion poll. On Friday afternoon, November 22, 1963, his network broke into its popular soap opera, “As the World Turns,” to announce that President John F. Kennedy was dead from an assassin’s bullet. |
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Cronkite spoke slowly, repeatedly blinking, repeatedly taking off and putting on his glasses. He was clearly “choked up,” as he acknowledged later—but he didn’t choke. Throughout that Friday afternoon and during the next three days, he reported the news. I and 150 million others remained glued to our televisions. |
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The front pages of numerous newspapers—Miami Herald, The Detroit News, Oakland Tribune, others from sea to mourning sea—all had identical “Kennedy Dead” headlines. The Los Angeles Times added an exclamation point: “Kennedy Dead!” |
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And that raises a question: When should journalists exclaim? Cronkite fought back tears for Kennedy, for his wife and two young children, for the country. He did his job so others could learn and cry. In those days, even as news grew that the assassin was a Communist, networks were not suggesting that viewers add to the disaster by assaulting Marxists. |
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How should Christian journalists react? John tells us in chapter 11 of his gospel, “Jesus wept.” But before that, Jesus notified his disciples: As John recorded it, “Jesus told them plainly, Lazarus has died” (ESV). Today, we need news stories and obituaries that are the first drafts of history. We also need stories that are the first draft of empathy, and CT’s goal is to provide both. A look at CT’s website on Thursday, our front page, showed multiple pieces covering Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In the days since, we have continued to cover this horror. We bring the news plainly, and we weep. |
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One thing we do not need: a civil war. Abraham Lincoln, after four years in which 600,000 Americans died, summarized well the duty of all who have the power either of sticks and stones or of words: “With malice toward none, with charity for all … let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.” |
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Today in Christian History |
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September 16, 1672: Puritan Anne Bradstreet, America’s first noteworthy poet, dies. |
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Here are edited excerpts of a conversation between Russell Moore and Mike Cosper on CT’s The Bulletin podcast. Mike Cosper: Look, his murder has really bothered me. If you’re a…
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From 2006 to 2021, I had the joy of supervising another Christian magazine’s annual compassion awards. Reporters and I sought recommendations and made site visits that resulted in profiles of…
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Hundreds of students filled the lawn of evangelical Grand Canyon University near downtown Phoenix Wednesday evening, grieving the murder of Charlie Kirk. One by one, they spoke into a mic,…
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College comes with many pressures: pressure to perform. Pressure to fit in. Pressure to find your people, to graduate on time, to choose the right major and career (and sometimes…
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The Christian story shows us that grace often comes from where we least expect. In this issue, we look at the corners of God’s kingdom and chronicle in often-overlooked people, places, and things the possibility of God’s redemptive work. We introduce the Compassion Awards, which report on seven nonprofits doing good work in their communities. We look at the spirituality underneath gambling, the ways contemporary Christian music was instrumental in one historian’s conversion, and the steady witness of what may be Wendell Berry’s last novel. All these pieces remind us that there is no person or place too small for God’s gracious and cataclysmic reversal. |
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