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In the midst of Ukraine’s war, one youth pastor is teaching displaced teens life skills as well as laying the groundwork for healing and forgiveness. |
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Meet the evangelicals from China and Taiwan who are converting to Eastern Orthodoxy. |
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Brad East wrestles with finding scriptural answers to embryo screening, IVF, and other new technologies. |
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An excavation in a Jerusalem parking lot has yielded new discoveries in the City of David. |
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From international correspondent Jill Nelson: I enjoyed talking with Alex Zaytsev, a 32-year-old Ukrainian American pastor who ministers to teenagers in war-torn Ukraine. My husband and I raised five children—including two we adopted from Ukraine—so I could relate to the challenges he shared of teaching teenagers household skills and basic hygiene, including knowing when body spray has been overdone. At one point, Zaytsev had 20 teens under his care. |
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His backstory is compelling as well. Zaytsev’s father completed his engineering studies at a university in eastern Ukraine in the early ’90s shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, when Soviet influence still loomed large. Just before graduation, authorities summoned his father and told him he would need to renounce his Christian faith in order to receive his degree. He refused and instead took a job in a coal mine. As reforms stalled, the family decided to immigrate to the United States in 1998. Zaytsev later returned to Ukraine as a missionary and pastor in 2016. |
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Technology has revolutionized our world time and time again. Electricity transformed daily life, increased industrial productivity, and provided safer and more stable power for lighting, heating and cooking alike. Television…
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Today in Christian History |
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January 8, 1956: Missionaries Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming are killed by Ecuadorean Indians they sought to evangelize. The story of the missionaries and their deaths along the Curaray River was publicized by Elliot's widow, Elisabeth, in Through Gates of Splendor, published the following year. |
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Pastor Justin Anderson drove up the winding road to his new congregation’s church campus, nestled between two steep green hills and moments from the Pacific Ocean. The previous Sunday, he’d…
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In the early hours of January 3, airstrikes on Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela’s largest military complex, woke up Ender Urribarrí and his family. From their Caracas apartment, they saw explosions as…
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Is Christian faith reasonable? This question has haunted and delighted the Christian mind since Justin Martyr addressed it in the second century. Believing that the gospel constitutes the truest story about the…
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When I was a little girl, my dad, an immigrant from Czechia, bought international phone cards to call my grandma. As Voice over IP technology improved, we switched from phone…
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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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