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Christian boarding houses have all but disappeared in New York. As the housing cost everywhere skyrockets, some want them revived. |
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Incarnation means coming into a filthy, fetid world, CT contributor Carrie McKean wrote in a 2023 story. |
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Today’s Advent devotional: God provides a path through incomprehensible darkness. |
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From senior staff writer Emily Belz: In addition to conducting interviews for today’s story on the disappearance of Christian boarding houses, I had such a good time reading through a stack of academic articles on their history in cities like New York and Chicago. |
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I didn’t know, for example, about Ina Robertson, a devout Christian who started a boarding house for miners in Washington state and later Eleanor Clubs for women in Chicago in the 1890s. |
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The peak of the religious boarding-house movement, which provided simple but affordable single bedrooms with communal living spaces, was about 1860 to 1920 as young people moved to cities for work. Today, I learned, constructing single-room occupancy units in many places like New York, where I live, isn’t even legal. |
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This is dusty history, but it’s also personal to me now. In the years I’ve lived in New York, I’ve watched friends leave the city because of a lack of affordable housing. And I’ve felt the pinch myself. A handful of friends have found respite in some of the city’s last remaining boarding houses and single-room occupancy dwellings. Cities around the country are considering building this kind of housing again; maybe Christians will be involved. |
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- The Oklahoma Supreme Court permanently barred on procedural grounds the state’s social studies standards, which had required curriculum on the Bible and "discrepancies" in the 2020 election.
- A Hindu former Supreme Court judge called for nonbelievers in India to recognize Christian contributions to the country this Christmas.
- A camel kicked a woman at a Houston church’s Christmas program.
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Today in Christian History |
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December 22, 1216: Pope Honorius III officially approves the Dominican Order, which is dedicated "to preaching and the good of souls." |
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This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Alan J. Thompson, A Basic Guide to Biblical Theology: Nine Themes That Unite the Old and New Testaments (Baker Academic, 2025)…
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My New Testament professor Gordon Fee said something in class that sticks with me to this day. "Let me hear you sing. Let me hear you pray," he said, "and…
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In past Decembers, pastor Paul Maina’s congregation at Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) Njilang in Chibok, Borno state, Nigeria, spent the week before Christmas celebrating. They often went house…
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The passage of President Lyndon Johnson’s landmark civil rights bill did not end Black Americans’ struggle for civil rights. In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Selma…
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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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