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CT is proud to present our first-ever Compassion Awards, recognizing ministries that serve their communities with grit and hope. Today, we’re spotlighting the Nehemiah Foundation, which mobilizes churches to help Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. |
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Authorities have arrested a man they suspect is responsible for the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. |
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Charlie Kirk’s grassroots outreach and confident style of debate inspired Christian students to speak out. |
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When we assign meaning to murder, we end up sacralizing violence itself.
After former president Jair Bolsonaro received a 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup, Brazilian evangelicals call for reconciliation. |
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A veteran professor’s advice for college students: You must be humble if you want to learn. |
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From executive editor for news and global Marvin Olasky: During the past 40 years, I’ve spent time with poverty-fighting organizations in 162 different cities or towns, and I’ve occasionally seen differences between what groups say and what they do. That’s why I instructed the writers of our seven Compassion Award articles to approach the stories in two phases. |
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First phase: Get thoughtful recommendations, scrutinize groups, and doveryai no proveryai—in the words of the Russian maxim, “trust, but verify.” (When Reagan quoted the phrase in 1987, talking about an arms control agreement, Soviet head Mikhail Gorbachev said, “You repeat that at every meeting.” Reagan responded, “I like it.” Me too.) |
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Second phase: Don’t just helicopter into a site and stick a mic in a spokesperson’s face. Spend time and talk not just with staff members but the people being helped; make sure they’re not handpicked. Work to sense the vibes and undertones. Articles should be journalistic, not public relations. Stories grain credibility when we report challenges as well as successes. |
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I hope these seven articles we promote in the newsletter this week will glorify God, not individuals. But it’s great if compassionate Christians, after they’ve worked for years with little publicity and usually low pay, get a bit of evidence that their labor is not in vain—and that others care. |
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Today in Christian History |
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September 15, 1648: The British Parliament approves the Larger and the Shorter Catechisms, now used by Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Baptist congregations. |
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Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk died on Wednesday after he was shot at a public event at a college campus in Utah. He was 31. Kirk built a massive political…
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This week the White House issued detailed prayer guidance, urging Americans to pray an hour a week for the country. “Will you join with at least 10 people to meet…
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PART I Between 2015 and 2020, something broke inside of me. I was a devoted Christian, a student of Scripture, and a public voice for the gospel. But I found…
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Like a brightly burning candle in the wind: That’s how C. W. Howell depicts the brief history of the American intelligent design movement in his new book, Designer Science. Howell,…
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The Christian story shows us that grace often comes from where we least expect. In this issue, we look at the corners of God’s kingdom and chronicle in often-overlooked people, places, and things the possibility of God’s redemptive work. We introduce the Compassion Awards, which report on seven nonprofits doing good work in their communities. We look at the spirituality underneath gambling, the ways contemporary Christian music was instrumental in one historian’s conversion, and the steady witness of what may be Wendell Berry’s last novel. All these pieces remind us that there is no person or place too small for God’s gracious and cataclysmic reversal. |
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