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September 23, 2026

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Today’s Briefing

Evangelicals, disability groups, and a coalition of other Christian organizations stopped a UK bill that would have allowed terminally ill adults to request assistance from doctors to end their own lives. 

Syria’s new government has promised to form a pluralistic country that protects the rights of its religious and ethnic groups. But a Kurdish pastor’s arrest, widespread sectarian violence, and creeping Islamization has left many minorities unsettled and afraid

Mid-century reformers closed mental hospitals with high hopes for medication, progress, and savings. Those decisions put thousands on the streets, writes Marvin Olasky. 

From the archives: Jen Wilkin argues children’s church is a terrible substitute for the Sunday service.

Behind the Story

From Lebanon-based contributor Hunter Williamson: I’ve been writing about Syria, a country that deeply fascinates me, for a while. I covered the country’s civil war, the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, and much of the postwar violence and reconstruction that has followed.

Major changes have occurred under Syria’s new Sunni-led leadership. One important development has been the rise of the trend I highlight in my latest piece for CT: Sunni populism. Alongside that trend, many Syrians and observers have also seen growing Islamization in parts of the country.

There are many moving parts, and explaining what’s happening isn’t easy. That’s why I was keen to report on the story of Nehad Hasan, a Kurdish pastor who was recently arrested in the country. His arrest provides readers a window into the new Syria and the ways the recent changes affect both Syrian Christians and other religious minorities.


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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…


Today in Christian History

September 23, 1595: Led by Fray Juan de Silva, the Spanish begin an intensive missionary campaign in the American southeast. In the following two years, 1,500 Native Americans in the area of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina convert to the Catholic faith.

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On September 14, President Donald Trump nominated Jane "Cissie" Graham Lynch as US ambassador at large for international religious freedom. She’ll have her work cut out for her. If confirmed…

On July 17, 1959, when she was almost 24 years old and not quite a graduate of Texas Southern University, Barbara Yarbrough signed a contract to teach art at a…

A few years ago I visited a friend who serves as a pastor in Hawaii. The moment I stepped off the plane, I understood why they call it paradise. Warm…

In May, controversy over the age of consent reignited among Kenyans as the High Court in Nairobi decided to stop charging underaged teens in consensual, close-in-age relationships with the criminal…


IN THE MAGAZINE

Cover Image of the September/October issue, 2026.

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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