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April 24, 2026

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Today’s Briefing

Australia’s ban on teen social media use isn’t perfect, but it’s helping some families normalize a childhood that isn’t centered on screens.

Amid debate about a “quiet revival” in the UK, studies show that young people have lots of spiritual hunger, even if they remain wary of large institutions.

Five biblical tips for college graduates, including myths about finding your vocation.

Behind the Story

Ashley Hales, editorial director of features, reflecting on today’s story about social media boundaries: As a parent to four kids (three teenagers), my husband and I spend too much time thinking about screens. I’m grateful for the work of Jonathan Haidt and others who have sounded the alarm about how screen usage, phone addiction, and social media are negatively impacting today’s youth. I’m encouraged to see that the Los Angeles Unified School District just this week voted to restrict screen time for students.

Particularly around social media, my husband and I have been dubbed the “uncool” parents since we do not allow our children to have any social media accounts until they turn 16. At 16, we allow our teens to pick only two platforms to join and sign a contract about how they want to show up online. Phones get plugged in within our room every night. We review social media accounts and texts regularly while also, especially as our children hit those upper teen years, not acting as if we are surveilling them. It’s a hard line to walk. Yet I’m confident that teens need to be discipled in their screen time too—which means we expect they’ll mess up, have consequences, and learn how to repent, and we’ll give grace too.

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In Other News

More than 250 Indian Jews relocated to Israel believing they are descendants of the biblical tribe of Manasseh, the king of Judah.
A court ruled that Texas can require public schools to display the Ten Commandments.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Bishop Robert Barron are among leaders set to speak at the National Mall in May for a rededication of the US as “one nation under God.”

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Today in Christian History

April 27, 1667: Blind, bitter, and poor, Puritan poet John Milton sells for ten pounds the copyright for Paradise Lost—a book that would influence English thought and language nearly as much as the King James Version and the plays of Shakespeare. The theme of the epic appears in its opening lines: “Of man’s disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe, / With loss of Eden.

What Christian Athletes Can’t Do

It was the night before Easter, and the shouting began to spread. Street preachers had claimed a corner near Auburn University. As video of their efforts circulated on social media,…

How a Kidnapping Changed a Theologian’s Mind

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On America’s 250th, Remember Liberty Denied

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The Third Space Revival

Have you ever walked into a coffee shop—you know the type—filled with carefully curated furniture and wire-rimmed glasses and copies of Infinite Jest, and left with an essay, or an idea, or…

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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