November 21, 2025

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What’s the best chapter in the Bible? Six-sevennnnn.

“If you’ve spent even 6 or 7 seconds around kids or teens lately, you probably saw that one coming,” writes CT features editor (and mom to a 9-year-old) Kristy Etheridge. “I won’t attempt to explain the meaning behind the trend, but I can point young 6-7 enthusiasts to a few places where their favorite numbers appear in Scripture.”

“We won’t fully understand the significance of these numbers until Jesus returns (and as the 6-7 trend stretches into yet another month, some of us may be praying more fervently for the beginning of the end),” she quips.

“Until then, we can ride the 6-7 wave and maybe even use it to soak up some biblical truth.”

Maybe your Thanksgiving table this year will be surrounded by preteen cousins making jokes like these. Or maybe the atmosphere will be a little more … tense. In that case, you might think the best strategy is to avoid sensitive topics altogether.

One Christian anthropologist argues for the opposite—and recommends three relational practices she’s seen be successful during difficult dialogue. “If we take the time to prepare ourselves,” she writes, “God can turn even the most challenging conversations into something beautiful.”

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6-7 in the Bible

Which Topics Are Off Limits at Your Dinner Table?

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This week on The Bulletin, our hosts discuss the headlines: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Communion at the White House, and ICE raids in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“Look at the tariffs. Look at his relationship to Iran and Israel. Look at his relationship to Ukraine. That’s Trump. You cannot predict what will come next from him, and we rarely get a full explanation about why things pivot as dramatically as they do.” | Listen here.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Communion at the White House, and Charlotte ICE Raids

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editors’ picks

Advent begins next Sunday, November 30, 2025.

Ashley Hales, editorial director, features: Lanier Ivester (featured in our November/December issue) has released a Kitchen Companion to her Advent book Glad & Golden Hours. I’m looking forward to trying some of its recipes. In past years, I’ve read through Madeleine L’Engle’s Crosswicks Journals over Advent and Christmastide.

Elise Brandon, copy editor: My friend gave me a copy of Waiting on the Word, an Advent poetry collection that I plan to read this year. I’m also reading the Book of Isaiah leading up to Christmas and sharing the Israelites’ longing for Jesus.

Mia Staub, senior editorial project manager, online: Some of us on staff are reading the science fiction novel Project Hail Mary this season.

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For the world’s largest displacement crisis.
For the single moms struggling to get their kids out the door on Sundays.
For public schools.

Review: ‘House of David’ Season 2

The swordfights and staring lovers start to feel like padding. Then, all at once, the show speeds up.‌

A Political Scientist Contemplates God

Charles Murray is ready to take religion seriously. He thinks we should too.

Black Greek Life Faces a Christian Exodus

Believers are denouncing historical fraternities and sororities that have been beacons of progress.

A Ukrainian Seminary’s Resilience

Russian troops destroyed its buildings but not its mission.

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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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