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A two-week cease-fire with Iran is set to expire next week. Iranian Christian Sara Afshari wrote for Christianity Today on fear, uncertainty, and waiting for the conflict to end—and waiting to learn what will come next for the people and country she loves. |
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During the war, she writes, she has been contemplating a passage of Scripture after Christ’s resurrection, when his disciples were together in a locked room, fearing for their lives, and Jesus "came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you!’" (John 20:19). |
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"John’s narrative resists two temptations: It does not deny fear. (The doors remain locked.) Nor does it promote retaliation. Instead, Christ speaks peace into a room shaped by fear," she writes. "This peace is an invitation to a different way of being present. ‘As the Father has sent me, I am sending you’ (v. 21). The disciples are commissioned to embody power rather than taking it." |
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She calls Iranian Christians, both those in Iran and those among the diaspora, to inhabit "a posture shaped by memory and faith, resistance and grace—resistance without cruelty, critique without surrender to empire, hope without romanticizing collapse." And to remember that Christ is with them always. |
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As the world gathers for the World Cup, engage this moment with intention, hospitality, and faith. Open your home for a watch party, invite your neighbors, and create opportunities for deeper connection, meaningful conversations, and shared hope. |
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British poet Malcolm Guite joined The Russell Moore Show this week to share about his new epic ballad, Galahad and the Grail. |
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"It’s the bringing together of those stories," he said of the Arthurian legends, which draw from both old pagan myths and Christianity. "It’s bringing some of these marvelous stories into the light of Christ and, in a kind of way, baptizing the imaginations of our ancestors. And I kind of feel like we need that rebaptism of the imagination again." | Listen here. |
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Bonnie Kristian, deputy editor: I’m rereading a bunch of P. D. James mysteries and particularly enjoyed A Certain Justice. |
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Angela Fulton, international editor: My husband and I really liked the Korean reality show Physical: Asia, where extremely fit athletes from different Asian countries (+Australia) face off in tests of strength and endurance in Squid Game–like settings. They also created a spinoff miniseries where members of Team Korea visit their counterparts in Mongolia. |
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Haley Byrd Wilt, interim editor: I just finished Frederick Buechner’s novel Godric, which was both sidesplittingly funny at times and simply gorgeous. His prose slips into effortless poetry without warning, using subtle rhyme and imagery to paint a masterpiece on the messy, painful pursuit of holiness. (Reading this novel also reaffirmed this fact: I really need to visit England.) |
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The year after my church dissolved, I listened to SZA’s "Good Days" on repeat. Lyrically, the song is about SZA cutting her losses after a relationship that has amounted to…
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Judging by current public discourse, one might think the Bible only addresses politics once, in Romans 13. "Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority…
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This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. In the past few weeks, the president has posted an Easter message that used profanity and threatened civilizational genocide, has issued threats to the pope, and…
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We need to throw more parties. At least, that’s what my husband and I decided last year in an attempt to beat back the sorry shroud of despondency that had…
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In this issue of Christianity Today and in this season of the Christian year, we explore the bookends of life: birth and death. You’ll read Karen Swallow Prior’s essay on childlessness and Kara Bettis Carvalho’s overview of reproductive technologies. Haleluya Hadero reports on artificially intelligent griefbots, and Kristy Etheridge discusses physician-assisted suicide. There is much work to be done to promote life. We talk with Fleming Rutledge about the Crucifixion, knowing that while suffering lasts for a season, Jesus has triumphed over death through his death. This Lenten and Easter season, may these words be a companion as you consider how you might bring life in the spaces you inhabit. |
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