Carrie McKean

Contributor

Carrie McKean is a West Texas-based writer and the Communications Director at First Presbyterian Church Midland. In addition to writing for Christianity Today, her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, and Reason Magazine, among other publications. A graduate of Baylor University, Carrie has lived in Midland since 2011 with her husband and two daughters. Find her at carriemckean.com.

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Christian Parents’ Mistakes Aren’t the End of the Story

Q&A with author Kara K. Root about anxiety, trust, and raising kids well.

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Parched for Political Wisdom

So many of our leaders are foolish—and not just in Washington. As the school year begins, we deeply need wisdom in my Texas town.

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The Injustice of Inconsistency

The problem isn’t that South Africans are coming to America. It’s that the door is closed to Haitians, Burmese, Sudanese, Yemenis, Venezuelans, Ukrainians, and everyone else.

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The Model Immigrants in Legal Limbo

They followed the law. They got in line. They never took welfare or committed a crime. So why would Kevenson and Sherlie be sent back to Haiti?

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Immigration’s Complicated Costs for My Town—and My Soul

Border regions like mine have absorbed so many new residents so quickly. I want to welcome them and to be honest about what I see.

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Church in the Antisocial Century

Working at my church has me there beyond Sunday morning. Our building is always bustling with care, an ever-rarer respite in an isolated age.

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Christ Our King, Come What May

This Sunday is a yearly reminder that Christ is our only Lord—and that while governments rise and fall, he is Lord eternal.

I’m Estranged from My Parents. I Still Love Them.

Even when family ties are severed, God does not cut off his care.

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The Antidote to Election Anxiety

My community is the kind you see in articles hyping the threat of political violence. Reality is more mundane—and hopeful.

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Review

We Have Never Been Deplorable

A new book critiques elites’ incurious accounts of the American right and illuminates their complicity in our social breakdown.