Today’s Briefing

Northern Seminary shocked its community by not installing its new president, and now neither the school nor Joy Moore will say publicly what happened.

Korean American Christians have mixed reactions to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics but often remain apolitical at church.

A month after a lawsuit from a campus ministry and other student groups, a federal judge blocked enforcement of a new Texas law restricting speech at public universities.

Research is confirming what many Christians have known all along about the dehumanizing and damaging effects of pornography.

Papua New Guinea is adding the Trinity to its constitution, and other news briefs from around the world.

Behind the Story

CT’s Spanish editorial director Giselle Seidel weighs in on CT’s recent immigration coverage:

Among Hispanic people there is a sense of tribal bond, almost a kinship tie, that for reasons we can’t explain overarches a wide variety of skin colors and a diverse mosaic of national identities.

Our hearts crush when we hear that our brothers and sisters are enduring intense suffering or when the news outlets report that people from Venezuela, Nicaragua, or El Salvador are fleeing their countries due to causes well beyond their reach—violence, food shortage, persecution, or economic collapse in their places of origin—yet they are turned away at every threshold.

Even for those of us who are not currently feeling in our own skins the touch of the international migration crisis, there is a strong sense of empathy. We want to help them. We want to forward anything that might be useful. We wish we could provide answers.

Within Andy Olsen’s coverage of the challenges migrants have been facing in recent months in the United States, this article translated into Spanish particularly resonated among our Hispanic readers around the world. Olsen’s article provided a real, detailed story that explained the hurdles asylum seekers have to dodge in the country. Some, perhaps, hoped it provided a peek inside the system. Some, perhaps, hoped it would help them or those who carry the same mestizo blood to be better prepared for their own processes.

In Other News

Oklahoma’s new state superintendent does not plan to enforce a mandate that public schools teach from the Bible.
At the historically Baptist Baylor University, Truett Theological Seminary launches a center for Anglican and Episcopal studies.
Christian graffiti went up on the medieval stone walls of Canterbury Cathedral as part of a contemporary art exhibit, and JD Vance is not a fan.

Today in Christian History

October 20, 751: Pepin the Short, son of Frankish hero Charles Martel and father of Charlemagne, deposes the last of the Merovingian kings and becomes the first king of the Carolingian dynasty. He was crowned by Pope Stephen II, who later asked for his help when threatened by Lombards of northern Italy. Pepin defeated the Lombards, then ceded the territory he captured back to the pope, laying the foundation for the papal states.

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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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