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CT Daily Briefing – 03-25-2026

March 24, 2026
Christianity Today
March 24, 2026
CT Daily Briefing

This edition is sponsored by Igniter

Today’s Briefing

War drove a young Ukrainian to the United States. Now she’s planting a church in small-town Minnesota. 

Low-tech parents in a digital age need to default to grace rather than judgment toward other parents, writes Brad East.  

Two college professors present a vision for “friction-maxxing” Christian higher education, where institutions challenge students rather than protecting them. 

CT found that Americans were facing a loneliness epidemic back in 1978, too.

Behind the Story

Today we’re happy to have a story from a new staff member on the CT news team. We asked him to introduce himself: 

Hi there! I’m Cody Benjamin, and I’m new to CT’s staff as a senior news writer. If you’re a football fan, you might know me better as the guy who spent most of the last nine years writing quarterback power rankings (and many other things) for CBS Sports. While the NFL has long had my attention, I’m incredibly excited to be part of this new team. Why? Because I have a true heart for both real-world journalism and biblical storytelling. Originally from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, I’m now based southeast of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. When I’m not penning stories for work, I’m usually crafting tales for fun as an author, guest-speaking at our church, plotting the next trip to the movie theater, trying to keep pace with my voracious reader of a wife, or chasing our two kids. I look forward to serving and connecting with the CT community!

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In Other News

Today in Christian History

March 25, 1625: England’s King James I dies. In 1604, at the Hampton Court Conference, James authorized the translation project that produced the 1611 King James (Authorized) Version of the Bible.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Churches Haven’t Forgotten Portland

On the descent, Portland looks like it did more than a decade ago, when I first started flying home from college for visits. The little city glimmers in light reflected…

We Aren’t Just Disenchanted. We Are Desecrated.

It was late 2020 when, suddenly, the confused world I found myself living in began to make a little more sense to me. The reason it all fell into place…

Died: Chuck Norris, Icon of American Machismo Who Returned to Faith

Even Chuck Norris’s granddaughter bought into the memes that described her Papa as indestructible. He was, as she wrote recently, the man who “counted to infinity twice, the man who…

‘No Guardrails’ for Some Christian Wellness Influencers

“Fuel the grind and honor the soul” is one of the slogans on the website of the yet-to-be-released energy drink Praise Energy. Bryce Crawford, a Christian influencer with 4.1 million…

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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