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A Nigerian theologian who was kidnapped in late March recounts his experience and how it taught him to listen to his kidnappers’ stories. |
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For this week’s books column, historian Thomas Kidd reviews works on slavery and says marking America’s 250th includes remembering the liberty denied to millions of enslaved people. |
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From Inkwell: Third places, which are seeing a revival, bring to life G. K. Chesterton’s comment that "we need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." |
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Senior news writer Cody Benjamin: Nearly a decade of writing for CBS Sports trained my eyes and ears for personality-driven stories. Most everyone, after all, can tell you which team, which player, fared well (or not) after a big game. But pro sports double as reality shows, so the real conversation starters involve the human element: Why did this coach lose his cool? Do these teammates even like each other? Jaden Ivey’s release from the Chicago Bulls after several polarizing declarations over social media, then, immediately drew my attention. This went beyond the court. |
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I give much credit for how the Ivey piece today actually unfolded to my editor, Andy Olsen. He helped move our outlet from a place of simply piling on with another reaction to an explosion in the breathless sports news cycle to a larger-picture discussion on why some Christian athletes are "permitted" in the public sphere and others are not. |
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I think I am most proud that, even after much research and conversation with other athletes and thinkers in this space, we did not necessarily arrive at a clean "answer" as to who is right and who is wrong when it comes to expressing faith as celebrities. I hope, rather than becoming a weapon for one side of an argument, this piece helps us all think a bit more carefully about our responsibility—and perhaps specific giftings—for representing Jesus with a platform. |
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Today in Christian History |
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April 24, 387: On this day, Augustine of Hippo writes in his autobiographical Confessions, "We were baptized and all anxiety for our past life vanished away." |
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Ernesto Ricardo Medina began filming short videos with friends in early 2024 from a small room, or cuartico, of his home in Holguín, Cuba. By 2026, he had become one…
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This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Sometimes a guest says something that goes by in the moment but that I can’t stop thinking about later. Earlier this week,…
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Despite the loneliness, mistrust, and anger coursing through American social life, young men have at least one institution they can still rely on: the male group chat. I am 23…
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Once upon a time I was a pacifist, and some days I still am. Although I’m a theologian, which means it pays to pretend to know everything about everything, there…
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In this issue of Christianity Today and in this season of the Christian year, we explore the bookends of life: birth and death. You’ll read Karen Swallow Prior’s essay on childlessness and Kara Bettis Carvalho’s overview of reproductive technologies. Haleluya Hadero reports on artificially intelligent griefbots, and Kristy Etheridge discusses physician-assisted suicide. There is much work to be done to promote life. We talk with Fleming Rutledge about the Crucifixion, knowing that while suffering lasts for a season, Jesus has triumphed over death through his death. This Lenten and Easter season, may these words be a companion as you consider how you might bring life in the spaces you inhabit. |
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