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November 26, 2025

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Today’s Briefing

From Russell Moore: Advent drives us to time travel.

Real maturity requires more than age verification.

Introducing CT’s Advent devotional: Darkness, Then Light.

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Behind the Story

Many of us here at CT are lifelong periodical lovers. In honor of CT’s biggest sale on subscriptions, we are sharing some memories of our favorite magazines:

Kate Shellnutt, editorial director of news: During a recent move, I discovered a stack of Teen People magazines as well as “got milk?” ads I had collected in the 1990s. I don’t know what happened to the copy of Pockets magazine where I was first published as an 8-year-old “poet.”

Ashley Hales, editorial director of features: As a tween, I loved the advice columns in Brio. In Highlights it was all the fun activities—nerdy word searches for the win!

Alex Wooten, senior copy editor: I read Focus on the Family’s Clubhouse and National Geographic Kids growing up.

Mia Staub, editorial project manager: I loved American Girl magazine and National Geographic for Kids as a kid. I liked reading the profile of the doll of the year and would ask for doll accessories for Christmas. My first internship was with Darling magazine, and its last issue went out when I interned—before relaunching a couple years ago.

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In Other News

The US Supreme Court hears arguments this week from a pro-life pregnancy center accused of misleading clients.
Liberty University now offers online degrees for students in Europe.
Each year, the town of Herrnhut, Germany—founded by refugees of the Moravian Church—produces 820,000 handmade stars symbolizing the Star of Bethlehem.

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Today in Christian History

December 1, 1170: Banished earlier by King Henry II because he sided with the church against the crown, archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket returns, electrifying all of England. Henry orders his former friend’s execution, and Becket is slain by four knights while at vespers December 29. (T.S. Eliot’s play Murder in the Cathedral is a fascinating exploration of the event.)

May Cause a Spontaneous Outburst of Festive Joy

It’s time—time to banish the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack from my house with an updated playlist of Christmas music. Each year, as I start sifting through new Christmas releases, I…

You Know Them As Fantasy Writers. They Were Soldiers Too.

Halfway through the Great War, on November 30, 1916, a small group of European leaders managed to attend the funeral of Franz Joseph, ruler over the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In a…

Our Prayers Don’t Disappear into Thin Air

Some prayers find their way back quickly, like sunlight glancing off water. Others seem to drift into the distance and never return. I have lived in this in-between space, repeating…

Meet CT’s New President

The Bulletin sat down with CT’s new president and CEO, Dr. Nicole Martin, and Walter Kim, a CT board member and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, to talk…

in the magazine

As we enter the holiday season, we consider how the places to which we belong shape us—and how we can be the face of welcome in a broken world. In this issue, you’ll read about how a monastery on Patmos offers quiet in a world of noise and, from Ann Voskamp, how God’s will is a place to find home. Read about modern missions terminology in our roundtable feature and about an astrophysicist’s thoughts on the Incarnation. Be sure to linger over Andy Olsen’s reported feature “An American Deportation” as we consider Christian responses to immigration policies. May we practice hospitality wherever we find ourselves.

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