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This edition is sponsored by Eighth Day Prayers |
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A pastor was beaten into a coma in India, but in the years since he is seeing more locals in his community turning to Christ. |
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Justin Giboney writes that the Black church’s social action, at its best, was a Negro spiritual in action. |
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Who are the Ismaili Muslims, a minority sect that favors pluralism? |
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In Benjamin Watson’s new podcast at CT, The Just Life, the former football player talks to people fighting injustice. |
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From Big Tent editorial director Sho Baraka: I grew up in a house that spent its Sundays shouting praises in a football stadium rather than a church. My father played in the NFL for the New Orleans Saints. So imagine my elation when I found out that a New Orleans Saints player, Benjamin Watson, not only was a fellow saint in the Lord but also enjoyed my music. After his playing days, I’ve had the honor of following his passion as a man who walks humbly, loves mercy, and does justice in a diversity of areas. |
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This past summer I received a text from Watson to appear on a new endeavor that he was undertaking. That endeavor was a podcast called The Just Life. After spending the day playing theological catch with him, discussing history, pacifism, and Jesus, I knew this podcast he was developing would be something special. My next plan was to plot how this project could find a home at Christianity Today. It was not a difficult task, because Benjamin Watson, like CT, is operating in a disposition where justice and mercy aren’t detached from biblical fidelity. |
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Now the next step is to convince him to start CT’s first sports podcast. |
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Do the calendar pages feel like they’re flying by? If you’re seeking depth, structure, and room for reflection in your life, Eighth Day Prayers offers a way to enter the liturgical seasons with intention—uniting mind, heart, and spirit in daily Scripture-based prayer. Even in the midst of busy seasons and distractions, their guides offer a gentle structure that restores rhythm and attentiveness to God’s presence. |
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In each guide, you’ll find a daily Scripture-rooted prayer practice and thoughtful reflections to help you go deeper. And with the Advent season just around the corner, it’s a wonderful time to be guided by the liturgical calendar. This seasonal guide will lead you on a daily reading through the seasons of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, inviting you to inhabit sacred time together with other believers, even from different corners of the world. Prepare your heart for the miracle of Christmas with Eighth Day Prayers—pick up your copy today. |
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Today in Christian History |
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November 4, 1646: The Massachusetts Bay Colony makes it a capital offense to deny that the Bible is the Word of God. |
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A crowd of about 200 mourners gathered under the clear sky of Barkin Ladi in Nigeria’s Plateau State as pastor Ezekiel Dachomo officiated the mass burial of at least 12…
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This is the first of a two-part series on Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. The second story will provide background on the Shiite sect and examine whether Ismaili history…
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"Around two years ago, I started reading the Bible," 20-year-old Hailey Gillman told her 200,000 TikTok followers in March. "I proclaimed that I was a Christian on my social media.…
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When I was 16, a new student named Zakariya showed up at school. His forehead bore fan-shaped scars that identified him as a member of the Dinka people group—south Sudanese…
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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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