Today’s Briefing

Russell Moore on why President Donald Trump’s AI Jesus controversy helps reveal what the church has become—and where it should go from here.

With the Strait of Hormuz restricted due to the Iran war, Christian aviation and relief groups face high fuel costs as they aid the most vulnerable.

The Hebrew midwives from Exodus can teach us anew about godly resistance and civil disobedience.

Church crises are real, but popular “exvangelical” discourse offers too pat a narrative to be helpful, says Yi Ning Chiu.

Behind the Story

From CT global correspondent Jill Nelson: While working on my article on the Iran war’s impact on global aid, I found arranging phone calls with Christian ministries during Holy Week challenging. One group responded, “With the short week (we’re out Friday and Monday) it’s a challenge tracking folks down.” Other ministry leaders were in transit on their way to visit family.

Meanwhile, my husband and I were juggling our own travel logistics while visiting family in South Dakota. During a call with an aviation ministry on Good Friday, I could hear my husband in the background coordinating a rental car for our adult son, who had spent the night in a North Dakota airport and was facing yet another flight delay.

Despite the Holy Week sourcing obstacles, the story came together. Nearly all of the ministries I contacted looked into my detailed inquiries and found someone to speak with me. And my son drove six hours through an April snowstorm, arriving in South Dakota in time to bring several days of joy to his grandparents and extended family.

In Other News

Vice President JD Vance spoke at a mostly empty Turning Point USA rally, where young evangelical supporters criticized the war in Iran and Trump’s post portraying himself as Jesus.
A court ordered Air Canada to provide back pay to pilots who were put on unpaid leave after the company rejected their requests for religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Jemar Tisby has gone into filmmaking, with a documentary on Christianity and immigration.

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Today in Christian History

April 16, 1521: German reformer Martin Luther arrives at the Diet of Worms, convinced he would get the hearing he requested in 1517 to discuss the abuse of indulgences and his “95 Theses.” He was astounded when he discovered it would not be a debate, but rather a judicial hearing to see if he wished to recant his words.

My Family Resisted Iran’s Regime. My Hope Is Not in Foreign Intervention.

On Saturday, February 28, just a few hours after the start of the US–Israel war against Iran and before the internet went dark, my sister called from Yazd in central…

A New Approach to Native Missions Starts with the Past

When Martha Craft looks at the class photo from her First Communion in 1979, she contrasts the children’s smiles with their futures. Craft is a member of Alaska’s Inupiat and…

Beth Moore Is Leaving Her Ego Behind

For Beth Moore, leaving the Southern Baptist Convention was like falling off a cliff and not knowing if anyone would catch her. At times, she’d walk the woods near her…

Partying in Joy and Sorrow

We need to throw more parties. At least, that’s what my husband and I decided last year in an attempt to beat back the sorry shroud of despondency that had…

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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