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Pastors join with businesses and city leaders to revive Portland’s troubled downtown, as reported by Oregon native and senior features editor Kate Lucky. 

Chuck Norris, an icon of American machismo who returned to faith later in life, has died.

The Christian influencer sphere has no guardrails when it comes to medical and wellness advice, reports Kelsey Kramer McGinnis. 

Danielle Treweek reviews Carl Trueman’s upcoming book, which argues that Western culture’s rejection of God has degraded our humanity.

The Bulletin crew tackles Iran developments, 2028 presidential hopefuls, and authors using AI.

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Today in Christian History

March 24, 1820: Blind hymnwriter Fanny Crosby, author of more than 9,000 hymns, is born. Her works include "Blessed Assurance," "All the Way My Savior Leads Me," "To God Be the Glory," "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior," "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," "Rescue the Perishing," and "Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross.

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This month, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a bill to ban the abortion drug mifepristone and revoke the FDA’s approval of it.  In the recent past, few would have been surprised that…

As an on-air radio personality, Jason Johnson used to spend his Sunday evenings playing contemporary Christian music at a station in northeast Ohio. But when the COVID-19 pandemic struck six…

Elevation Church—a multisite megachurch founded by Steven Furtick and based in Matthews, North Carolina—announced the launch of Elevation College in November 2025. The new hybrid institution is for "traditional college-aged…

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Let’s talk about your magnum opus, The Crucifixion. How has the Cross been central to your own pastoral call and sustaining…


IN THE MAGAZINE

In this issue of Christianity Today and in this season of the Christian year, we explore the bookends of life: birth and death. You’ll read Karen Swallow Prior’s essay on childlessness and Kara Bettis Carvalho’s overview of reproductive technologies. Haleluya Hadero reports on artificially intelligent griefbots, and Kristy Etheridge discusses physician-assisted suicide. There is much work to be done to promote life. We talk with Fleming Rutledge about the Crucifixion, knowing that while suffering lasts for a season, Jesus has triumphed over death through his death. This Lenten and Easter season, may these words be a companion as you consider how you might bring life in the spaces you inhabit.

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