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April 29, 2026

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Today’s Briefing

Russell Moore’s guide to decision-making.

As extremist attacks leave dozens of Afghan Christians dead, a pastor connected to the victims continues shepherding his church members living under Taliban rule.

Andrew Wilson says the church still needs the Christian doctrine of hell.

Amid a crisis of Black hope, Thomas Anderson hopes the church will respond.

Behind the Story

Senior news writer Cody Benjamin on coming to work at CT: I’m still quite new here, only joining the team in March, but it hasn’t taken long for me to feel comfortable being part of the CT family. I owe real credit to fellow staff writer—and fearless newsletter captain—Emily Belz for this. Knowing I’m based in Minnesota, Emily reached out even before my official first day, offering to weave me into her reporting trip to the Twin Cities area. She wanted to ensure I knew I’d be working with real humans from afar.

I was immediately very grateful for her gesture, but a little piece of me was also intimidated: Emily was a real reporter at CT, already long proven to the readership. I was going to show up and seem out of my league—a longtime sports writer making quite the subject leap. Except Emily was pretty much the best person to punctuate my first week. She exudes an earned confidence about her work, and yet—to this day—she fields every one of my questions with nothing but a helpful posture. And she picked an underrated pizza spot for lunch at a random strip mall in suburban Minnesota!

I definitely did not intend to order the same pizza as her at our lunch (we both went for spicy). But I think if I can follow in her footsteps professionally, it’d be a big win. She is both strong and sensitive as a leader, careful and convicted as a reporter, and I am sure that CT is fortunate to have her.

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In Other News

After uploading YouTube videos about his faith, a Coptic Christian scholar was sentenced to five years in prison and hard labor under Egypt’s blasphemy laws.
Scholars discovered a lost copy of a seventh-century poem, Caedmon’s “Hymn,” at a library in Rome. Thought to be composed by an illiterate cattle herder, a modern translation of “Hymn” praises “the work of the Father of Glory, of all manner of marvel.”
The National Religious Broadcasters filed a complaint asking the Federal Communications Commission to investigate ABC after Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about First Lady Melania Trump.

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Today in Christian History

April 30, 1562: Two ships carrying 150 Huguenot (French Protestant) immigrants arrive off the coast of northeast Florida. The settlers established a colony at Parris Island, South Carolina, but abandoned it two years later due to a lack of supplies.

Torn on IVF, Evangelicals Turn to Natural Family Planning

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Quashing Political Violence Requires We Tame Our Tongues

The first thing I noticed about the manifesto of Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the foiled assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at the White House correspondents’ dinner (WHCD), is how…

Let the Little Children Hang with Church Grandmas

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In College, AI Is a Friend and Foe

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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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