CT Daily Briefing – 09-24-2024

September 23, 2024
CT Daily Briefing

This edition is sponsored by Pure Desire Ministries


Todayโ€™s Briefing

As the United Nations General Assembly meets this week, a Christian UN representative shares how it is a mission field with little evangelical presence.ย 

Churches in Zimbabwe are becoming more outspoken against the countryโ€™s raging drug crisis and extending mercy to those struggling with addiction in their own pews and pulpits.ย 

Meet the โ€œNew Christiansโ€ who have gone from decrying the faith to defending it in intellectual spaces.

With her discussions of suicidal ideation and same-sex attraction, author and teacher Brenna Blain shares a theology built through Godโ€™s presence in suffering.ย 

What Gen Z Christians can teach us about being good neighbors.

Behind the Story

From Kate Shellnutt: One of our goals at CT is to showcase and introduce readers to interesting and influential people who are serving the church and their communities. These could be up-and-coming voices, lesser-known leaders working behind the scenes, or even big-name figures doing new things.ย 

With all the writers, thinkers, pastors, professors, speakers, entrepreneurs, and influencers out there, we have a lot to choose from. I like to look for people whose ministries and lives reflect some bigger trends we see across evangelicalism. Or people who are doing something unusual or unexpected that can challenge our thinking in a good way.ย 

Brenna Blain was not a name I had heard until this summer, when some clips of her speaking came across my Instagram feed. I had a couple friends ask me if we had ever written about her. And then just a couple weeks later, writer Ericka Andersen pitched a profile of Brenna, a tattooed young theologian in the Pacific Northwest, whose approach resonated with young believers and those who have struggled with mental health. Her story is up on our site today.

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In Other News


Today in Christian History

September 24, 787:ย The Second Council of Nicea begins under Pope Hadrian I. The council condemned iconoclasm. The Roman Catholic Church considers this as the seventh of the 21 ecumenical councils; the Eastern Orthodox churches consider this the last of the ecumenical councils (seeย issue 54: Eastern Orthodoxy).


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in the magazine

Cover of the September/October 2024 Issue

Our September/October issue explores themes in spiritual formation and uncovers whatโ€™s really discipling us. Bonnie Kristian argues that the biblical vision for the institutions that form us is renewal, not replacementโ€”even when they fail us. Mike Cosper examines what fuels political fervor around Donald Trump and assesses the ways people have understood and misunderstood the movement. Harvest Prude reports on how partisan distrust has turned the electoral process into a minefield and how those on the frontlinesโ€”election officials and volunteersโ€”are motivated by their faith as they work. Read about Christian renewal in intellectual spaces and the โ€œyearnersโ€โ€”those who find themselves in the borderlands between faith and disbelief. And find out how God is moving among his kingdom in Europe, as well as what our advice columnists say about budget-conscious fellowship meals, a kid in Sunday school who hits, and a dating app dilemma.

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