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From senior staff writer Emily Belz: I can tell you from a worn-out news team at CT that 2025 has been a busy year. I’m sure our readers feel some of their own exhaustion in absorbing all the news this year, from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine to persecution of Christians in China to AI developments to new immigration policies under the Trump administration. |
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We don’t want CT readers to feel overwhelmed or discouraged by the latest violence or arrest of a pastor, but we do want you to be informed in a healthy, manageable way. Instead of leaving readers overwhelmed with reports on all the coming changes with AI, we want a story that makes it more manageable through understanding—asking a question like "How are Christian engineers influencing these large language models?" And then sometimes we want our readers to enjoy a laugh, like when we did a story about an AI artist hitting the No. 1 spot on the Christian charts. |
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As we head into 2026, I’m thinking of the Corrie ten Boom quote "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." |
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Today in Christian History |
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December 30, 1852: Future U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes marries "Lemonade "Lucy," so called because, as first lady, she forbade alcohol in the Executive Mansion. The Hayeses were both devout Methodists who began each day with prayer and organized Sunday evening worship services at the White House. |
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Megiddo, site of the biblical Armageddon and home of the discovery that capped off our top 10 list last year, continued to yield noteworthy discoveries in 2025. This year’s archaeology…
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"All share a common destiny," says the writer of Ecclesiastes (9:2), the complicated and the uncomplicated alike. Such were those we lost in 2025.This year, the church laid to rest…
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Christianity Today published thoughtful essayists from around the world in 2025 who analyzed current news events, offered culture criticism, and wrote about how faith and theology intersect with the dilemmas…
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Once in a while it’s good to step back from day-to-day political dramas and wonder what the greatest dramatist ever would do with contemporary characters. The Bulletin interviewed political scientist…
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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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