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April 9, 2026

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Meet the Mississippi farmer who helped resettle 150 Ukrainian families fleeing war.

Two states just passed laws to block abortion pills, a new front in pro-life politics at a time when pills are the source of most abortions in the US. But will the laws work?

Amid war, the Iranian church persists.

Malcolm Gladwell talks to Russell Moore about radical forgiveness and the death penalty.

Harvest Prude reviews a new book on whether Christians are rude dinner guests.

On The Bulletin: Trump threatens Iran, Artemis II returns, and Anthropic rolls out a new artificial intelligence technology.

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Behind the Story

From CT contributor Hannah Herrera: In college, I attended a small church in Mississippi. I graduated a few months after the war in Ukraine started but remained on the church email chain—which is how I knew about Rodney Mast’s resettlement efforts with Ukrainian refugees.

I was captivated by how an ordinary man could make such a huge impact, and by the lovely randomness of a rural Mississippi church with a Russian translator. My journalist brain had always thought Mast would be a great subject for a feature—and after reading about the legal struggles Ukrainian refugees in the US are facing, I was curious how these communities are continuing to care for their Ukrainian friends.

Through correspondence with Mast (sometimes from his tractor seat) and calls with Ukrainian mothers bouncing babies and chasing toddlers, through tears and translators, I became witness to a beautiful narrative of the resilience—and love—of the global family of God.

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In Other News

In response to anger about a Turning Point USA rally on campus, Baylor University will allow gay advocates to have a counterevent.
A UK pastor was charged with manslaughter after a grandfather drowned during a home baptism.
Lecrae became the first Christian rapper to perform for NPR’s Tiny Desk series.

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Today in Christian History

April 10, 1829: English evangelist William Booth, founder and first general of the Salvation Army, is born in Nottingham. In 1865, Booth and his wife, Catherine, set out to reach the desperate poor and unchurched by conducting open-air meetings with lively music; preaching in theaters, bars, and jails; and creating large-scale plans to relieve poverty.

The Bible Doesn’t Justify War Crimes

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. As of my writing this, the United States and Iran have agreed to a two-week cease-fire. Earlier this week, the president posted…

When Parents Pay for a Child’s Violence

In 2006, Marie Monville was living a quiet life in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. That changed on October 2, when her husband walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse nearby in Nickel…

To Write Well Is Human

A major publisher recently pulled a new novel for a novel reason: a strong suspicion that the book was at least partially written by a generative artificial intelligence app. This is likely…

New Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit Is the Real Deal

Most of the people who come to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, to see the Dead Sea Scrolls can’t read the fragments that are on exhibit through…

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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