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Kenyan church leaders push back against what they say is an “unconstitutional” government proposal to regulate churches as a way to crack down on fraudulent leaders.
With the latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails released, Christians should urge vigilance, compassion, and accountability for the sake of abuse survivors.
The second season of Amazon Prime’s House of David series raises questions for Bible nerds.
Q&A: John Mark McMillan is stepping away from music, but he’s still chasing transcendence.
On The Just Life podcast, Benjamin Watson interviews Geoff Duncan, the former Republican lieutenant governor in Georgia who joined the Democratic Party this year.
From senior staff writer Emily Belz: It’s Monday, and we all might feel the weight of the work week ahead. I have on my desk legendary journalist Robert Caro’s book Working, which I sometimes open to a random page when I feel stuck in the writing or reporting process.
Caro, who in the book mentions cutting 350,000 words from his magnum opus The Power Broker, says that he is “naturally lazy,” which I just don’t believe. But it’s nice to hear him say that. His rules for himself, even as a writer who may not see anyone else in a day, are to wear a suit and tie so he feels like he’s doing a job and to always produce at least three pages each day. He talks about being in a bad mood when he’s trying to boil down an idea about a historical figure like Robert Moses, but he knows the purpose of that kind of slow, mental work.
“The more light that can be thrown on the actual processes we’re voting about, the better,” he said in Working. “We live in a democracy, so ultimately, even despite a Robert Moses, a lot of political power comes from our votes. The more we understand about the realities of the political process, the better informed our votes will be. And then, presumably, in some very diffuse, inchoate way, the better our country will be.”
Whether or not we’re wearing business suits every day, it’s helpful to think that our small, faithful efforts at our jobs can make a difference in some “inchoate way.”
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Today in Christian History
November 17, 3 B.C.: According to early church father Clement of Alexandria (c.155-c.220), Jesus was born on this date (issue 59: Jesus of Nazareth).
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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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