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The Blood Cries Out at Christmastime
The 12 days of Christmas tell of martyrdom, pain, and sacrifice as much as life, joy, and salvation. This is no accident.
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A Messiah for a Messy World
Anna and Simeon remind us of what it looks like to wait on Jesus amid personal and political upheaval.
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What Your Anxiety Needs This Christmas
The answer to our fears is as unexpected—and apocalyptic—as the birth of Jesus.
The Orphan Care Movement Grows Up
Two decades into the resurgence of Christian adoption advocacy, the movement bears both visible bruises and greater wisdom.
A Greater Light than Diwali
South Asian Christians use connections between the Diwali festival and Christmas to point their communities to Christ.
All My People Died at Christmas
Amid the snowflakes and lights, I needed particular reminders of God’s presence.
Do I Have to Go to Church with My Folks?
CT advice columnists also weigh in cringing at Christianese and the importance of attraction.
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Studies of Religion Need the Corrective Lens of Social Science
Sociology can help us see neglected drivers of religious beliefs. But it shouldn’t lose focus on the beliefs themselves.
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There Goes the Fear
The Bulletin talks about Russia, antisemitism in Canada, and UFOs over New Jersey.
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The Countercultural Sermon That Changed Everything
Rich Villodas considers Jesus’ words on anger, lust, and lament in the Sermon on the Mount.
This Great and Complicated Place
Chaos or Community: Where Do We Go From Here?
The pilot episode explores the intricate relationship between race, space, and community in American cities.
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Christians in Syria
The Bulletin welcomes Marlo Slayback and Robert Nicholson for a conversation on the state of Christians in Syria.
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View archivesAs this issue hits your mailboxes after the US election and as you prepare for the holidays, it can be easy to feel lost in darkness. In this issue, you’ll read of the piercing light of Christ that illuminates the darkness of drug addiction at home and abroad, as Angela Fulton in Vietnam and Maria Baer in Portland report about Christian rehab centers. Also, Carrie McKean explores the complicated path of estrangement and Brad East explains the doctrine of providence. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt shows us how art surprises, delights, and retools our imagination for the Incarnation, while Jeremy Treat reminds us of an ancient African bishop's teachings about Immanuel. Finally, may you be surprised by the nearness of the “Winter Child,” whom poet Malcolm Guite guides us enticingly toward. Happy Advent and Merry Christmas.
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Let Heaven and Nature Wail
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Stories of Christian conversion
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Christianity Today’s Reader-Favorite Testimonies of 2024
The most widely read conversion stories of the year.
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I Demolished My Faith for ‘My Best Life.’ It Only Led to Despair.
Queer love, polyamory, and drugs ruined me. That’s where Jesus found me.
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I Made Millions as a Porn Star. It Nearly Cost Me Everything.
My adult-film career destroyed my sense of self-worth, but God wouldn’t let it define me.
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When I Opened My Bible, God Gave Me a Magnifying Glass
I was a Sikh student worrying about my grades when my eyes were drawn in dramatic fashion toward the truths of his Word.
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My Deconstruction Turned to Deconversion. But God Wasn’t Anxious.
He pursued me patiently across decades, as I passed from fundamentalism to progressive faith to another faith altogether.
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Mid-life Crisis? Bah, Humbug!
It is easy to look at the future in a rearview mirror, but that always leads to a collision.
Elisabeth Elliot on the Christian Father
Examining the male parent’s role.
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Bill and Vonette Bright’s Wonderful Plan for the World
Evangelicalism’s power couple closes in on their radical mission.
CT Classic: Madeleine L’Engle on Allegory and Prayer
“It seemed ironic and unfair that just as I was turning closer to God, I couldn’t sell anything I wrote.”
