CT Daily Briefing – 10-10-2024

October 9, 2024
CT Daily Briefing

This edition is sponsored by Zondervan Reflective


Today’s Briefing

An Evangelicals for Harris ad with clips of Billy Graham and Donald Trump has prompted a “cease and desist” order from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association ministry. 

Much of Western North Carolina is without running water after Helene. Disaster organizations that typically respond to clean water crises overseas are showing up to help. 

What the MAGA movement loves tells us more than what they hate. 

The Bible doesn’t fit the expectations of our information age

The disciplined Christian life cannot be lived alone.

The relevance of Revelation increases when we understand the history of ancient church culture and Roman propaganda.

Behind the Story

CT is looking for freelance writers in or from South Asia and East Asia, especially those with a background in journalism and/or theology.

From Southeast Asia editor Angela Lu Fulton: While worshiping with hundreds of Chinese house-church leaders at a conference in Hong Kong years ago, I looked around and marveled that as a journalist, God was giving me a front-row seat to what he was doing in the country. Talking to Chinese believers, I heard of the ways God was working in people and communities that I couldn’t have fathomed back home in the US, and it strengthened my own faith. We want to share more of those stories, and we want to do that through the words of local believers themselves.

From associate Asia editor Isabel Ong: Since joining CT, I’ve heard from friends and strangers about how our stories on Asia have encouraged them. One reader, Shamini, wrote to me after watching our Instagram reel on Japanese Christian women: “I deeply appreciated this post!! I’m on a hunt for stories of Asian Christian women and have been thinking of how to find and highlight these stories, cuz I think there’s just not enough of these stories around, in English.” I’m looking forward to deepening our coverage of how God has worked, and continues to work, in this region.

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In Other News


Today in Christian History

October 10, 1560: Dutch theologian Jacob Arminius, the founder of a theology that challenged Reformed assumptions, is born in Oudewater, Netherlands.


in case you missed it

When we moved to the small town of Canton, North Carolina, last fall, we heard stories about flooding. Living in the mountains spells unpredictability. In 2021, Tropical Storm Fred flooded…

In recent weeks, a group of evangelicals crafted a Confession of Evangelical Conviction in response to the “social conflict and political division” plaguing the American church, especially amid another contentious…

By the time Hilary Clinton “put half of Trump’s supporters” into “the basket of deplorables” in 2016, I confess I was frustrated enough to largely agree with her—even though she was…

In one of his many insightful essays, the late missiologist Andrew Walls asked whether one could detect a coherence or continuity over 2,000 years of Christian history. He proposed that…


in the magazine

Cover of the September/October 2024 Issue

Our September/October issue explores themes in spiritual formation and uncovers what’s really discipling us. Bonnie Kristian argues that the biblical vision for the institutions that form us is renewal, not replacement—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 frontlines—election officials and volunteers—are motivated by their faith as they work. Read about Christian renewal in intellectual spaces and the “yearners”—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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