Today’s Briefing

Ukrainian Christians hope Donald Trump will listen to them as he moves forward with negotiations with Russia: “We are looking not just to end the war, but we need a just peace.”

One of the founding congregations of the Christian Reformed Church is preparing to leave the denomination over the issue of LGBTQ inclusion.

How do you love your neighbor when you’re telling him you don’t love him? What do Christians owe each other in breakups?

Drying seeds with computer fans. Fashioning water filters out of barrels. How a global agricultural ministry combats poverty with improvisation.

A new history of women’s bodies includes fascinating, bizarre, and upsetting details from Christian history but then draws glib and oversimplified conclusions.

Behind the Story

From news editor Daniel Silliman: In journalism, you have to care about details. I think that’s so important.

We live in a time when people often find it convenient to leave out details or skirt around them, not quite lying, but not quite telling the truth about people they disagree with. They say they’re “just asking questions” (while studiously not asking actual questions). In journalism—real journalism—the details keep us honest.

And they show us the world is not as flat as it might appear. Like in this report from Megan Fowler about the split happening right now in the Christian Reformed Church. In some ways it’s similar to what happened with the Methodists, Mennonites, and Episcopalians. But it’s also surprisingly different. There are details that give the controversy a different shape. Journalism helps us pay attention to those things.

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What if your view of the future is limiting your impact today?

D.K. Matthews challenges the binary thinking that has dominated Christian cultural engagement since Augustine. In A Tale of Three Cities, Matthews demonstrates why “future-visions rule everything” and how our eschatology shapes the mission and culture of the church and our cultural influence.

This isn’t theoretical – it’s about practical, Spirit-led engagement in education, social concern, and public life. Baptist Seminary President Jamie Dew calls it “a must read” for understanding what it means to be “citizens of time and eternity” in our polarized age. Discover a framework for meaningful cultural engagement on Amazon.

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In Other News

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has been struggling financially since its Paige Patterson years but is now out of debt thanks to a major real estate sale.
Churches in Turkey have not been restored two years after a massive earthquake.
Ted H. Terry, a longtime leader in evangelical publishing and bookselling, has died at 82.
Archaeologists in Jerusalem have excavated the body of a six-fingered woman who they say may have been a religious leader.

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Empowered to Dream

David and Alex have always been dreamers. As brothers growing up in Esmaraldas, Ecuador, they fantasized about becoming professional soccer players—but the challenges of poverty stood in their way. The…

Today in Christian History

February 13, 1633: Called to trial by the Inquisition, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome ready to explain his belief that the earth revolves around the sun. He was compelled to recant the view, and was placed under house arrest until his death in 1642 (see issue 76: Christian Face of the Scientific Revolution).

Where Humility Leads to Lots of Home Runs

Coach Dan Heefner had a question. It was the first week of school at Dallas Baptist University (DBU), and the August sun was hot over the small Christian campus nestled…

The Tithe That Binds

Many pixels have been spent in recent years trying to sort out how and why American society—and American Christianity in particular—is so divided. In the church, a new cottage industry…

Something Holy Shines

Why might a thoughtful Christian choose to take an interest in poetry? Is there something in the poetic imagination that might be of special importance in an age that has…

Church in the Antisocial Century

“Is Pastor Steve available? I have an important question for him.” She hadn’t offered her name, but I knew the woman’s voice on the other end of the line. In…

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Cover of the January / February 2025 Issue

This first issue of 2025 exemplifies how reading creates community, grows empathy, gives words to the unnamable, and reminds us that our identities and relationships proceed from the Word of God and the Word made flesh. In this issue, you’ll read about the importance of a book club from Russell Moore and a meditation on the bookends of a life by Jen Wilkin. Mark Meynell writes about the present-day impact of a C. S. Lewis sermon in Ukraine, and Emily Belz reports on how churches care for endangered languages in New York City. Poet Malcolm Guite regales us with literary depth. And we hope you’ll pick up a copy of one of our CT Book Award winners or finalists. Happy reading!

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