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After the tragic shooting at Brown University, Christians met students with takeout and trauma therapy. |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude made Sho Baraka think about how AI prioritizes achievement over imagination, and appreciate Jesus’s wonderful "inefficiency." |
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From international editor Angela Lu Fulton: I remember first reading the term pig butchering scam in a 2022 ProPublica piece that detailed how Chinese criminal gangs were creating fake job ads, flying job seekers to Cambodia, then holding them captive and forcing them to scam innocent people online. The piece mentioned Christian anti-trafficking organization International Justice Mission’s involvement in rescuing victims, and I knew this was something CT needed to cover. We’ve now reported on this issue several times over the last year or so.
By 2024, the center of cyberscamming had moved to Myanmar, with criminals trafficking victims across the border from Thailand. CT correspondent Erin Foley traveled to Mae Sot, a Thai border town, to interview released victims and the Christians helping them, and she even glimpsed the massive compounds across the Moei River. That resulted in a powerful piece looking at this crime that resulted in two categories of victims: those losing their life savings and those trafficked into scamming. |
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In April, we covered the release of thousands of victims after the Thai and Chinese governments finally took action. In today’s story, Erin, who now lives in Mae Sot, looks at what has and hasn’t changed in this massive criminal scheme since 2022. |
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Christmas is full of excitement. Planning meals, wrapping gifts, and gathering with loved ones make the season special. Yet sometimes, even the most joyful traditions can feel overwhelming or exhausting.…
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Today in Christian History |
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December 17, 1912: Yale-educated Chicago native Bill Borden, heir to a fortune in real estate and milk production, boards a ship to China via Egypt. Converted to Christ as a young man, Borden had given his inheritance and his life to the cause of world evangelism. |
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At Christmas, incarnation and revelation go hand in hand. God becomes flesh, and God grants us knowledge of himself. In Bethlehem, the immortal Creator of all is manifest in a…
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On a September afternoon in an Egyptian city, cars and donkey carts navigate around pedestrians crossing the streets. Locals purchase cuts of meat from a carcass hanging by the road…
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"Only one who has mastered a tradition has a right to attempt to add to it or to rebel against it." This famous line from Chaim Potok’s novel My Name Is Asher…
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In 1981, an industry newcomer named Jubilant Sykes released his debut album, Number of the Lord, with Light Records, the same label as gospel legend Andraé Crouch. At the time,…
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As we enter the holiday season, we consider how the places to which we belong shape us—and how we can be the face of welcome in a broken world. In this issue, you’ll read about how a monastery on Patmos offers quiet in a world of noise and, from Ann Voskamp, how God’s will is a place to find home. Read about modern missions terminology in our roundtable feature and about an astrophysicist’s thoughts on the Incarnation. Be sure to linger over Andy Olsen’s reported feature "An American Deportation" as we consider Christian responses to immigration policies. May we practice hospitality wherever we find ourselves. |
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