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We love to hate invasive species. But like biblical thorns and thistles, we mostly brought them on ourselves.
A federal judge has dismissed all but one claim in Johnny Hunt’s defamation lawsuit over his inclusion in an SBC abuse investigation report.
Canadian evangelicals are trying to avoid reactionary responses to Donald Trump’s tariffs and the looming trade war with the US.
Christians are conspiracy theorists. But we are also called to distinguish truth from lies.
The Bulletin continues its miniseries on the long-term impacts of COVID-19. |
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From senior features writer Andy Olsen: I am not a gardener, but my wife is. She excels at making good plants grow and extracting garden metaphors from just about any circumstance. My gifting is more in making bad plants die. And I’ve turned over some metaphors of my own. |
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In its opening pages, the Bible drops humanity into a patch of thorns and thistles, and almost the whole rest of the narrative is about God helping us out of the briars. Weeds—literal and figurative—have always been with us. I don’t know if Adam ever fought crabgrass, but I’ll bet we could still commiserate someday on a heavenly front porch. |
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It’s only in recent decades that we’ve come to talk about invasive species—weedy plants (and animals) that come from somewhere out there. I fight these plants most of all on my own property in Kentucky. I’ve sawn them down and hacked at their roots and pondered how someone long ago brought a seed on a boat from across an ocean, and because of that my yard is a war zone. |
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I began wondering, which led to writing: Is that how sin works? Like a dandelion or a virus that comes from far off and multiplies infinitely? Or is the Bible’s teaching on weeds getting at something else? |
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Today in Christian History |
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April 2, 742: Charlemagne (Charles the Great) is born. When Pope Leo III crowned him "Emperor of the Romans" on Christmas Day, 800, Charlemagne announced, "Our task [as secular ruler] is externally, with God’s help, to defend with our arms the holy Church of Christ against attacks by the heathen from any side and against devastation by the infidels and, internally, to strengthen the Church by the recognition of the Catholic faith." |
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Peirong Lin, a deputy secretary at the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), likes to joke that evangelical is the most polarizing word in the world. "Yet that is exactly what we…
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For years, my church met in a theater—a newly constructed, state-of-the-art high school auditorium. Unburdened by the high cost of owning our own facility in Boone, North Carolina, the Heart…
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During his final Bible study before the government forced him to leave the United States, pastor Eduardo Martorano asked his congregants to take care of his library. The Venezuelan man…
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Israel Iluz, Messianic Jewish pastor of Congregation Kiryat Shmona, longs for quieter days. For more than a year, he braved the Hezbollah rockets raining down in his northern Israeli town…
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Even amid scandals, cultural shifts, and declining institutional trust, we at Christianity Today recognize the beauty of Christ’s church. In this issue, you’ll read of the various biblical metaphors for the church, and of the faithfulness of Japanese pastors. You’ll hear how one British podcaster is rethinking apologetics, and Collin Hansen’s hope for evangelical institutions two years after Tim Keller’s death. You’ll be reminded of the power of the Resurrection, and how the church is both more fragile and much stronger than we think from editor in chief Russell Moore. This Lent and Easter season, may you take great courage in Jesus’ words in Matthew 16:18—"I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it." |
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