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Christianity Today names Dr. Nicole Massie Martin as its new president and CEO.

Church attendance has dropped among single moms.

Russia destroyed a Ukrainian seminary’s building, but the school carried on its mission.

How grief can heal our nation.

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From editorial director of news Kate Shellnutt: One of the demographic trends getting the most attention in religion research lately has been the shift in church involvement among young men. This came up in CT back in 2022, when political scientist Ryan Burge noted that young women were no longer more religious than men, as had been the case among women for decades.

Since then, we’ve seen more evidence of this shift, and ministry leaders have been asking how to keep women engaged, exploring how much politics plays a factor, and even wondering how upticks in male attendance affect the worship wars.

Barna found that church attendance was up for both sexes so far this year, but the highest jump came from Gen Z men. Meanwhile, a CT piece up today looks at one demographic that saw significant decline in recent years: single moms.

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In Other News

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland apologized for its failure to adequately respond to abuse claims.
Maine’s Supreme Court is weighing a custody dispute where a court forbade a mother from taking her child to church.
President Donald Trump said radio host Eric Metaxas would get him into heaven.
More than 18 million Bibles have been sold so far this year—set to surpass last year’s 20-year-high.

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Today in Christian History

November 19, 1861: At the suggestion of her minister, abolitionist Julia Ward Howe wrote “some good words to that tune” of the popular song “John Brown’s Body.” In February, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” was published in the Atlantic Monthly and became very popular, especially after the Civil War (see issue 33: Christianity and the Civil War).

The World’s Largest Displacement Crisis

From July to September, Darmali Ismail and the 80 other people sheltering at his church—Episcopal Church El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan—survived on one meal a day. Some days they…

6-7 in the Bible

What’s the best chapter in the Bible? Six-sevennnnn. If you’ve spent even 6 or 7 seconds around kids or teens lately, you probably saw that one coming. News outlets from…

More Than a City On a Hill

Thomas Tweed is one of the most distinguished figures in the world of religious studies. His wide-ranging writings include key contributions in diasporic and immigrant religion, Catholic history, American Buddhism,…

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Communion at the White House, and Charlotte ICE Raids

Over the weekend, President Trump changed his tune about the Epstein files, calling for them to be released. Meanwhile, the rift between Trump and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene widens. Former…

in the magazine

As we enter the holiday season, we consider how the places to which we belong shape us—and how we can be the face of welcome in a broken world. In this issue, you’ll read about how a monastery on Patmos offers quiet in a world of noise and, from Ann Voskamp, how God’s will is a place to find home. Read about modern missions terminology in our roundtable feature and about an astrophysicist’s thoughts on the Incarnation. Be sure to linger over Andy Olsen’s reported feature “An American Deportation” as we consider Christian responses to immigration policies. May we practice hospitality wherever we find ourselves.

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