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May 1, 2026

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Today’s Briefing

A Canadian woman describes growing up with gender dysphoria and spending six years living as a man, playing hockey, and drinking—and then making friends who helped her find restoration.

Black churches are mobilizing after a Supreme Court ruling weakened protections given to minority voters under the Voting Rights Act.

Robots deserve rest too—because endless AI “labor saving” isn’t going to cure our discontentment if we can’t take a Sabbath.

Sin is a tyrant, making humans both victims and offenders, in need of both rescue and healing.

Behind the Story

From Black church editor Haleluya Hadero: It’s challenging to fully plan for Supreme Court decisions. Reporters expect the most consequential opinions to be released in May or June. But sometimes the court publishes its rulings earlier, which is what happened with the recent decision on the Voting Rights Act. I expected a ruling in June, but it came out on April 29.

When news broke about the decision, I dropped other projects to work on a story about how Black churches—many of whom work to boost voter turnout during elections—were responding. I reached out to several contacts, including Erika Crawford, a bishop with the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Louisiana (the state at the center of the legal case). Crawford forwarded me an email she had sent out to churches in Louisiana and Mississippi about the ruling, and I hopped on the phone with another bishop the following morning to talk about how leaders in his denomination were reacting.

This is my first time writing about the Voting Rights Act for CT. But I covered the law and minority voting rights a few years ago while reporting a story on a philanthropic organization called Black Voters Matter. When I was working on that piece, I traveled to Alabama and spent a day with church leaders and political organizers who wanted to reverse a Supreme Court ruling in 2013 that nullified a provision of the law. It helped to have familiarity with the subject for a quick turnaround on a breaking news story.

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In Other News

British singer Raye, who grew up Pentecostal, said her Christian faith helped her overcome drug use and the anxiety of online fame.
Vermont paid $566,000 in damages to a Christian school that had been banned from sports competition for refusing to play against a transgender athlete in 2023.
The parents of Sabastian Sawe, who set a world record at the London Marathon, said their son promised to rebuild their rural Kenyan church if he won his race.

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Today in Christian History

May 4, 1923: Sir W. Robertson Nicoll, editor of the British journal The Expositor (which included articles by many leading scholars) and of a 50-volume Expositor’s Bible (published 1888-1905), dies.

Black Churches Urge Congregants to Mobilize After Supreme Court Ruling

In the hours after the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana congressional map and weakened protections given to minority voters under the Voting Rights Act, a bishop overseeing historically Black…

The Christian Migrants Feeding the Displaced in Lebanon

On February 28, Grace woke up happy. After months of searching, she had finally found a steady job with a cleaning company. It was Saturday, but Grace, a migrant domestic…

When Faith Feels Cloudy

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The Algorithm Is Changing How We Speak—and Strive

I’ll typically start formulating ideas around 7 a.m. Thanks to a steady stream of information from my doctoral studies, my first instinct is to dig through the past 24 hours…

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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