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September 19, 2025
September 19, 2025
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Today’s Briefing

A New Jersey crisis pregnancy center is going to get its day at the Supreme Court.

Whether in Memphis, Chicago, or anywhere else, fixing violent crime doesn’t start with a show of force from the National Guard. 

Evidence of objective morality is hiding in plain sight, a new book argues. 

CT is hosting an online event with Lecrae this month! Join Russell Moore and Lecrae on September 24 at 3:30 p.m. EDT for a live conversation on how evangelicalism has shifted over the past five years and what a faithful path forward might look like. Register now for free.

Behind the Story

From news editor Daniel Silliman: Big court cases can be tricky to cover. They involve huge, important issues of truth and justice and yet, at the same time, often hinge on the tiniest, trickiest technical details. As a reporter you ask, “What is this case about?” The honest answer is often two entirely different things: the limits of governmental power, say, and also the jurisprudence of “standing” and who has the right to sue when and where.

If you follow Supreme Court coverage for a while, you’ll see different media outlets deal with this in different ways. Some coverage treats cases as if they are about particular issues, like religious freedom, when cases might be about underlying legal technicalities. That makes sense. We care about the issue itself. But it often leads to the impression, I think, that that’s the only thing the justices care about and that’s how the court is going to reach a decision. Seems like a disservice to the reader to me. 

A better approach, I think, is the one that Adam MacInnis takes in this story we’re running today. He outlines the big issue in the case—whether an attorney general can order a nonprofit to turn over donor info or if that’s unacceptable harassment—and yet also includes the technical matter that doesn’t feel so critical to non-lawyers. Here, it’s when a case can be appealed.

Figuring out how to do both and give both the appropriate weight is not always obvious. I know I get it wrong sometimes. But that’s what I’m going for when I report or edit a piece on the Supreme Court.

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In Other News

Today in Christian History

September 22, 1566: Johann Agricola (b. 1494), German theologian and reformer, dies. He became a friend of Martin Luther in 1519, though after 1540 the relationship deteriorated over the issue of the authority of Mosaic Law in believers’ and nonbelievers’ lives (see issue 39: Luther’s Later Years).

in case you missed it

Most Men Are Pro-Life. Activists Want Them to Speak Up.

When polled, a majority of men in America check the pro-life box. But when two blue lines appear on a pregnancy test, many remain reluctant to voice those views. “It’s…

For Kirk’s Fans, Provocation Wasn’t the Point

In the week following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, many young Christians in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky were explaining why his death hit them so hard. They pointed me…

How Then Shall America Pray?

In an address at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, on September 8, President Donald Trump launched another in a fairly long line of religious projects, the America…

Harvest Christian Fellowship Accused of Negligence in Romania

Two Romanian men claim a church in California is responsible for the fact that they were repeatedly raped as children in orphanages in the Eastern European country. They say Harvest…

in the magazine

The Christian story shows us that grace often comes from where we least expect. In this issue, we look at the corners of God’s kingdom and chronicle in often-overlooked people, places, and things the possibility of God’s redemptive work. We introduce the Compassion Awards, which report on seven nonprofits doing good work in their communities. We look at the spirituality underneath gambling, the ways contemporary Christian music was instrumental in one historian’s conversion, and the steady witness of what may be Wendell Berry’s last novel. All these pieces remind us that there is no person or place too small for God’s gracious and cataclysmic reversal.

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