CT Daily Briefing v.1.4

April 9, 2026
April 9, 2026
CT Daily Briefing

This edition is sponsored by Leland P Gamson

Today’s Briefing

Biblical archaeologists try to see under Jerusalem without digging.

Chick-fil-A wants families to be less online—just download its new entertainment app first.

In the Christmas story, the holy family’s flight to Egypt gives us a new perspective on how God works: across millennia, not minutes or days or even years.

Fewer than 1 percent of Serbians are Protestants. A social anthropologist talks with CT about the role of the tiny evangelical minority in the Orthodox culture of the Balkans. 

Is today’s evangelicalism overcorrecting its fundamentalist past?

Behind the Story

From editorial director of news Kate Shellnutt: When I was a little kid, my family had a small stack of Adventures in Odyssey tapes that we would listen to in our station wagon or on the big silver cassette player at home. My family wasn’t evangelical, so we didn’t have things like Psalty the Singing Songbook, VeggieTales, Captain Bible, or really any other Christian content. We didn’t go to church. But we did go to Chick-fil-A.
 
We’d eat in the corner of the second-story food court at Lynnhaven Mall in Virginia Beach in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I’d get a kids’ meal with a tape—they were white and printed and with the Chick-fil-A logo. I thought Adventures in Odyssey and Focus on the Family were made by Chick-fil-A until I was an adult.  
 
Obviously, Adventures in Odyssey is a hugely popular and long-running production of its own, but now Chick-fil-A is actually making up and distributing original productions. This CT piece on the Legends of Evergreen Hills and its new Play app looks at how today’s Christian families are responding to the offerings.

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In Other News

Today in Christian History

December 9, 1608: English poet John Milton is born in London. Though most famous for his epic Paradise Lost, he also penned an exposition of Christian doctrine, a plan for Christian education, and various political writings.

in case you missed it

Supreme Court Considers State Bans of Transgender Procedures for Minors

In its first major case on transgender issues, the US Supreme Court seems poised to uphold state restrictions on medical transition for youth. Dozens of protestors gathered on the steps…

The Rabbit Room’s ‘Christmas Carol’ Draws on Dickens’s Pure Religion

No matter how many times I hear “Come Thou Fount,” I still think of an angry Victorian man shouting, “Bah, humbug!” when we reach the Ebenezer line. The name has…

Me and Bobby McGee

Show Notes The Bulletin welcomes Andy McCarthy (National Review) to talk about the Hunter Biden pardon. Then, Russell, Mike, and Clarissa talk about South Korean protests as conflict in Syria…

Died: ‘Late Great Planet Earth’ Author Hal Lindsey

Hal Lindsey, who popularized end times theology by connecting biblical prophecy to current and near-future events, died on November 25 at the age of 95. Lindsey became a household name…

in the magazine

In this issue of Christianity Today and in this season of the Christian year, we explore the bookends of life: birth and death. You’ll read Karen Swallow Prior’s essay on childlessness and Kara Bettis Carvalho’s overview of reproductive technologies. Haleluya Hadero reports on artificially intelligent griefbots, and Kristy Etheridge discusses physician-assisted suicide. There is much work to be done to promote life. We talk with Fleming Rutledge about the Crucifixion, knowing that while suffering lasts for a season, Jesus has triumphed over death through his death. This Lenten and Easter season, may these words be a companion as you consider how you might bring life in the spaces you inhabit.

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