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Today’s Briefing
Celebrating the past six years and looking forward to the future: Christianity Today announces the search for a new president.
At the European Evangelism Congress in Berlin, Christians are being encouraged to find optimism in the face of the rising tide of secularism.
Sudan’s civil war haunts seminary students.
An apologetics debate at MIT inspired a new round of discussion over what evangelicals believe about Communion.
A Christian woman with HIV in Kenya leans on God and local efforts to replace PEPFAR funds.
A new book is a spiritual checkup for Christians working in health care.
Behind the Story
From news editor Daniel Silliman: CT president Timothy Dalrymple has spent a lot of the last six years casting a vision and leading us into the future—work that occasioned columns on new initiatives, new hires, and the regular re-articulation of the timeless truths guiding our work. Perhaps his most memorable piece, however, has been about failure.
Tim was an Olympics-bound gymnast, earlier in life, but didn’t make it. He reflected on that in 2021:
Failure—the failures I endured all along the way as well as the failure to make the Olympic team due to injury—has shaped me so profoundly that I hardly know who I would be apart from it. It showed me the end of myself. It taught me compassion. It showed me my many sins and flaws. It showed me my need for a strength beyond my own. It illuminated the grace of God.
I’m grateful for Tim’s many successes leading CT. And he was always good about celebrating our wins too. But I’m even more grateful he was a leader who regularly pointed us to the goodness of the gospel truth that’s deeper than #winning.
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In Other News
- The FBI is investigating allegations of violence targeting evangelical groups at a rally in Seattle.
- The Newsboys canceled a Canadian tour in a conflict with the promoter.
- Missouri reinstates its abortion ban after legal challenges halted enforcement.
- The Primitive Baptists are getting an update to their iconic, pre–Civil War shape-note hymnal.
Today in Christian History
May 30, 339: Eusebius dies at age 74. Author of the 10-volume Ecclesiastical History, he is called the father of church history. In his day, though, he was as much a maker of history as a recorder. At the Council of Nicea, he argued for peace between the heretical Arians and Orthodox leaders like Athanasius.
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in the magazine

It’s easy to live in a state of panic, anxiety, and fear, from the pinging of our phones to politics and the state of the church. In this issue, we acknowledge panic and point to Christian ways through it. Russell Moore brings us to the place of panic in Caesarea Philippi with Jesus and Peter. Laura M. Fabrycky writes about American inclinations toward hero-making. Mindy Belz reports on the restorative work of Dr. Denis Mukwege for rape victims in Congo. We’re also thrilled to give you a first look at the Global Flourishing Study, a multiyear research project about what makes a flourishing life across the globe. While panic may be profitable or natural, we have a sure and steady anchor for our souls in Jesus.
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