Christianity Today

March/April 2026

Volume 70, Number 2

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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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Essays

Mother holding a child while watching butterflies in a colorful flower field at sunset.

Motherhood Was Supposed to Be a Slog. I Found Joy Instead.

Kate Lucky

Staff Editor

Now I’m learning to navigate a season of joy faithfully–and with open hands.

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News

Death Is Not a Right

Kristy Etheridge

Legalized assisted suicide is gaining steam. A robust theology of suffering might help us stem the tide.

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News

AI Necromancy Impersonates the Dead

Haleluya Hadero

Staff Editor

As more people interact with AI chatbots mimicking their deceased loved ones, how should Christians engage?

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Torn on IVF, Evangelicals Turn to Natural Family Planning

Kara Bettis Carvalho

Staff Editor

Traditionally a Catholic enterprise, Protestants are increasingly turning to natural procreative technology.

cover of the books To Live Well, by Alan Noble, Spellbound by Molly Worthen, and Awake by Jen Hatmaker.

Review

Does the Body Tell the Truth?

Jen Pollock Michel

Guest Columnist

Jen Hatmaker’s Awake, Alan Noble’s To Live Well, and Molly Worthen’s Spellbound approach virtue and the body in different ways.

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The Birds and the Bees, Babies and Me

Karen Swallow Prior

Contributor

God calls us to a fruitful life, no matter our fertility.

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Review

Congress Is Overwhelmed and Incompetent

Haley Byrd Wilt

Self-interested and self-loathing, it’s unable to represent the American people well. A new book suggests solutions.

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The Vigil of Birth

Bonnie Kristian

Staff Editor

For low-risk pregnancies, midwife care can offer mothers the birth resources they need: patience, attention, and time.

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Public Theology Project

This Easter, Let’s Lose Our Hope

Russell Moore

Columnist

We need more than reassurance, punditry, or prediction.

Detainees are transferred to an ICE facility during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Chicago on October of 2025.

News

The Churches That Fought for Due Process

Andy Olsen

Staff Writer

An Ecuadorian immigrant with legal status fell into a detention “black hole.” Church leaders across the country tried to pull him out.

Prologues

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News

As AI Became Popular, One Audiobook Business Sank

Haleluya Hadero

Staff Editor

Jason Johnson says the technology pushed him out of the voice acting industry.

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News

Mortgage Man for God

Kara Bettis Carvalho

A Rhode Island entrepreneur soared on an annual percentage rate and a prayer—then surrendered everything.

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Birth and Death are Life Issues

Ashley Hales

Staff Editor

A note from CT’s editorial director of features in our March/April issue.

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Qualms & Proverbs

What’s the Difference Between Privilege and Blessing?

Karen Swallow Prior, Kevin Antlitz, and Kiara John-Charles

Contributor; Contributor; Contributor, Qualms & Proverbs

CT advice columnists also weigh in enjoying unnecessary luxuries and the nature of fun.

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Churches Haven’t Forgotten Portland

Kate Lucky

Staff Editor

Churches partner with business and city leaders in Portland’s downtown core.

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Helping the Church Think Clearly

Nicole Massie Martin

President & CEO

A note from CT’s President in our March/April issue.

Backstories

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Testimony

Born a Woman, I Spent Six Years Living as a Man. Then God Showed Me My True Identity.

Kyla Gillespie

God’s voice reached me through a compassionate Christian couple.

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‘People Need to Be Reminded of God’s Abba-like Care’

Kate Lucky

Staff Editor

Responses to our November/December issue.

Portrait of Theologian Fleming Rutledge

‘We’re God’s Guerilla Warriors’

Interview by Ashley Hales

Theologian Fleming Rutledge sits down with CT’s Ashley Hales to discuss the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and how Christianity isn’t self-help.

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