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While Hamas-friendly countries continue to push anti-Israel propaganda, Israel is spending $4 million on PR targeting US evangelicals.
Wicked: For Good rightly suggests that what frightens us more than loss or physical harm is the evil deep within ourselves.
Pastor and author Nicholas McDonald focuses on hospitality and gospel imagination to combat our culture’s cynicism and disillusionment at Christmas.
Amid a push to decolonize faith, a Latin American Christian finds new appreciation for a God who fashioned us within our culture and doesn’t expect us to leave it behind.
Beth Felker Jones’s Why I am Protestant argues for unity among diversity.
From senior staff writer Emily Belz: I’m currently reading Zora Neale Hurston’s excellent memoir Dust Tracks on a Road, and she describes going to high school at night after work:
In English, I was under Dwight O. W. Holmes. There is no more dynamic teacher anywhere under any skin. He radiates newness and nerve and says to your mind, “There is something wonderful to behold just ahead. Let’s go see what it is.” He is a pilgrim to the horizon. Anyway, that is the way he struck me. He made the way clear. Something about his face killed the drabness and discouragement in me. I felt that the thing could be done.
I think that’s what we’re trying to do at CT—kill the drabness and discouragement and make readers feel “that the thing could be done.” We don’t want our reporting to be just discouraging, but energizing. My colleague Andy Olsen talks about our reporting work as “formational information,” meaning we want to provide new information but send readers in a direction. To a hopeful horizon. In our faith, we know that’s not a wishful image but rather a reality that reporting can help reflect.
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Today in Christian History
November 25, 2348 BC:: According to Anglican Archbishop James Ussher’s Old Testament chronology, Noah’s flood began on this date.
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in the magazine
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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