November 25, 2024

Today’s Briefing

With grocery prices up, ministries running food banks, food pantries, and local kitchens are stretching their resources to feed millions of hungry families.

Thanksgiving has always held gratitude in tension with sorrow, suffering, and sin.

Paul was thankful only to God.

Soccer fans are surprised by a Bible verse in Germany, the “Gandalf church” is restored in the UK, and other news briefs from Christians around the world.

On The Bulletin, Mike Cosper talks to broadcaster Krista Tippett about paying attention and the slow work of wisdom.

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Behind the Story

Some things that CT’s editorial team is thankful for this week:

Global managing editor Morgan Lee: For staying relatively healthy as I prepare to run the Honolulu Marathon.

Staff writer Emily Belz: For clean water after two months without it in my hometown of Asheville, North Carolina.

Editorial director of news Kate Shellnutt: For people in Augusta, Georgia, who have helped my family and all those displaced by Hurricane Helene.

Executive editor Joy Allmond: After passing the one year mark in a new city, I’m exceedingly grateful for my local church and the community I have found there.

Associate engagement editor Caroline Fea: I’m thankful for my family traveling to me and for a Thanksgiving meal shared with a combination of family, in-laws, and friends!

News editor Daniel Silliman: For Hanksgiving, the best day-after-Thanksgiving celebration, where we gather with friends, eat leftovers, and watch a Tom Hanks movie.

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In Other News

Evangelicals in the UK are wary of one possible candidate for Archbishop of Canterbury, even though he affirms a traditionalist sexual ethic.
Clergy in the US report higher rates of job satisfaction than people in any other job.
Malaysia’s official religion is Islam, but a legislator in a majority-Christian state is calling for the return of Bible lessons in schools.
These US churches have turned their lawns into dog parks.

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Raise Compassionate Kids in a Self-Centered World

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Today in Christian History

November 26, 1827: Ellen Gould White, American Christian spiritual author and pioneer, is born. Along with other Sabbatarian Adventist leaders such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she helped form what became known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church (see Issue 61: A History of the Second Coming).

The Work of Love Is Always Before Us

For many Americans, the results of our recent election inspired some measure of despair, fear, and anger. Sometimes these reactions come out online as threats to cut off relationships withu0026hellip;

I’m Estranged from My Parents. I Still Love Them.

The box was a fire I could not touch. It arrived at our house one summer evening, handed off to me by my in-laws. I stuck it in the garage,u0026hellip;

Evangelicals Divided as Sharia Courts Expand in the Philippines

The Philippine governmentu0026rsquo;s recent decision to expand sharia law into majority-Christian regions has surprised local pastors and missionaries. In August, President Ferdinand (u0026ldquo;Bongbongu0026rdquo;) Marcos Jr. signed a law which createdu0026hellip;

Something Is Not the Same

RFK and autism, missiles to Ukraine, and Tammy Faye. Find us on Youtube. The Bulletin welcomes Jill Escher to talk about autism in light of the RFK appointment as healthu0026hellip;

in the magazine

As 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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