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Cissie Graham Lynch, the granddaughter of Billy Graham, was nominated to lead a gutted religious freedom office under President Donald Trump. |
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During the final years of his life, Tim Keller spoke of cultural myths that secretly shape our lives. His son, Michael, explores these in The Stories We Live By, a new book based on their conversations. |
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Kenya’s High Court has removed mandatory sentences for consensual sex between minors, prompting Christians to debate whether the ruling will give way to abuse or prevent unjust prosecutions. |
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A 91-year-old Texas educator is still following God’s lead in the district she joined back in 1959. |
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From senior features editor Taylor Berglund: One of my recurring jobs at CT is excerpting new books into stories. This is a fun job—I get to read many great books before they hit shelves—but it can be tricky. Take, for example, today’s excerpt on a book written by Tim Keller and his son, Michael. Our audience enjoys Tim Keller, it’s well written, and it’s timely—check, check, check. But which part to excerpt? |
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My first impulse was to pick a chapter and turn that into an excerpt. This works well for books with short, standalone chapters. The problem here is the average chapter was around 6,000 words. That’s far too long; we at CT try to keep excerpts under 1,500 words, if not 1,000. But in this case, it’s hard to take out 75 percent of the text without changing the author’s voice. |
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Instead, I skimmed and found a smaller section of three to four pages that could stand alone without awkwardness. The section I picked comes from the back half of the book’s seventh chapter, but with a few minor edits, I think it works all by itself. (You can judge for yourself.) With that done, I sent the excerpt back to the book’s marketing team, who approved the choice, and then we published! |
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- The White House posted a list of its "Top 250 Victories for People of Faith," arguing that "nobody has fought harder or gained more for believers" than Trump.
- A new Gloo study showed that prayer is the leading spiritual motivator for young adults who are attending church more frequently.
- Police are searching for a $50,000 bronze statue of Jesus after it was stolen from an Orange County church. Authorities fear the monument could be melted down and sold.
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As a group of boys played marbles in the dust of a Puerto Rican street corner, a woman approached, inviting them to join Sunday School at the Lutheran church. These…
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Today in Christian History |
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September 22, 1692: Puritan magistrates hang the last 8 of 20 condemned witches in Salem, Massachusetts (see issue 41: The American Puritans). |
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Around 1 a.m. on June 2, the Israeli military showed up at a six-story apartment building in Ramallah in the West Bank and started smashing down doors, looking for college…
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In 1997, employees at a warehouse in Scottsboro, Alabama, uncovered the remains of a four-foot-tall animatronic dwarf in the back of a tractor trailer. The white-haired, radio-controlled puppet, whose name…
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"People are always telling you that change is a good thing. All they’re really saying is that something you didn’t want to happen at all has happened," says Kathleen Kelly,…
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Emily Hubbard recalls a trend in women’s discipleship that urged women to rest in Jesus and "stop trying to do it all." The problem was, Hubbard wasn’t trying to do…
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For our 70th anniversary issue, we’re studying the past. Excerpts from our archives show evangelicals in Billy Graham’s day and our own grappling with our place in public life. A new book offers a fascinating history of Christian womanhood—but makes a misleading argument, according to our reviewer. We’re also peering into the future. Artificial intelligence, GLP-1 drugs, anti-aging surgeries, next steps for the pro-life movement: These are some of the issues likely to occupy Christians for the next seven decades. But mostly, we’re spending time in the present: With a Honduran man who found himself pastoring in a Massachusetts jail while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. With the evangelical owners of a traditional Korean spa engaged in a religious freedom showdown. With faithful believers doing good work—a chef, an architect, a ball boy, a teacher (who, at age 91, is older than CT!). And with the writers of our newly expanded testimony section, who found God’s faithfulness in the midst of alien conspiracies, after a bad accident, and via an envelope in a refrigerator. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amid our own era’s change, conflict, and uncertainty, we hope this issue declares that reassuring truth. |
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