Today’s Briefing

Reckoning with its history of adoption fraud, South Korea halts overseas adoptions, and Christians step up to advocate for domestic orphan care.

A look at the state of interfaith dialogue in Iraq.

In Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity, Paul Kingsnorth counts the cost of top-down systems, omnipresent screens, and radical autonomy.

How smartphone sports betting targets the most vulnerable.

Don’t underestimate the formative power of growing up in an ordinary, faithful church.

Behind the Story

From Asia editor Isabel Ong: Our story on South Korea’s adoption fraud took several months to materialize. Reporter Jennifer Park and I spent weeks trying to find evangelicals directly affected by this issue and birth parents in the country who were willing to share their stories, but no leads turned up.

While we didn’t manage to interview the kind of sources we initially hoped to find, we did speak with Korean Christian adoptees, South Korean Christian adoption advocates, and a representative from an adoption agency for this story.

Moving a story from its genesis to publication takes time but also patience and wisdom as we consider when to keep searching and reporting and when to move forward with what we have. We never want a story to feel rushed or incomplete. We want to provide thoughtful, worthwhile, and timely reporting on what’s happening in Asia from a Christian perspective. Please take some time to check out our wider South Korea coverage too!

In Other News

A 12-year-old shot in the head in the Minnesota church shooting in August finally left the hospital, with a citywide celebration. CT earlier interviewed one of the doctors who treated those critically injured in the mass shooting.
Three pastors were arrested in India for allegedly evangelizing Hindus.
An Illinois church is searching for its stolen mobile chapel.

Today in Christian History

October 29, 1562: George Abbot, translator of the Gospels, Acts and Revelation for the King James Bible, is born. He became head of the Church of England in 1611, but his popularity (and his health) declined sharply after he killed a man in a hunting accident in 1621.

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in the magazine

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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