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CT Daily Briefing – 11-05-2025

November 4, 2025
November 4, 2025
CT Daily Briefing

Today’s Briefing

Christians pray for the release of a US missionary kidnapped in Niger last month.

As civil war rages in Myanmar, members of the Christian Chin ethnic minority are turning on each other. 

ChatGPT announced it will begin providing erotica. 

The theater at the Museum of the Bible stages reconciliation over plenty of pints in Lewis & Tolkien.

Much of the Christian martyr Perpetua’s life is a mystery, but a new biography adds unproven assumptions about misogyny in the local church.

Behind the Story

From senior staff writer Emily Belz: I remember covering the debut of the Green Collection back in 2011 at the sumptuous Vatican Embassy in Washington, DC. Steve Green, the president of Hobby Lobby, was milling around doing interviews with reporters like me and talking to significantly more important people about the unveiling of what was one of the largest collections of biblical manuscripts and artifacts in the world. 

That kickoff led to the first exhibit of the collection at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art that year. Now 14 years later, the Museum of the Bible displays that collection permanently, and it is a fixture among the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall. 

At that bustling 2011 premiere, I remember Green telling me that the family’s collection was not for the sake of a collection. He said it was “to tell the story.” Looking at the Museum of the Bible today, it seems fitting with his original vision that the museum doesn’t just display artifacts but also has a theater for plays to “tell the story.” The writer of the play we cover today used similar phrasing, telling our correspondent that this new play on J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis is not intended to preach but to tell a story.

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In Other News

Today in Christian History

November 5, 1414: The Council of Constance opens to end the Great Western Schism. It deposed all three rival popes, but it also executed Bohemian reformers Jan Hus and Jerome of Prague, and anathematized the teachings of John Wycliffe (see issue 68: Jan Hus).

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Trump’s Refugee Policy ‘Is Slamming the Door on Persecuted Christians’

Even when politics becomes a hot-button topic at Scott Venable’s nondenominational church outside Dallas, there’s one issue that brings members together: refugees. The Northwood Church pastor recalls two volunteers from…

Who Are the Ismaili Muslims?

This is the second of a two-part series on Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. To read part 1, click here. An 11-acre Ismaili Muslim religious center is coming to…

A Pastor Stood Up to Persecution in India. Christianity Spread.

In Malkangiri district of Odisha state in eastern India, tribal Christian farmers gathered on an overcast Saturday in June for an annual prayer gathering for the upcoming sowing season. The…

You Can Be a Christian and a Patriot

We hardly know how to refer to political philosophies in America these days: What we once called conservatism is now considered “zombie Reaganism” or the passé postwar consensus, overtaken today…

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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