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Restrictions on payday lending are weakening, and Christian community development organizations are stepping in for victims facing interest rates in the hundreds. |
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Faith crises come from disillusionment of expectations, but a new book charts the path to holding on through the rough waters. |
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This week on The Bulletin, Israelis are protesting, Republicans in Texas are choosing a Senate candidate, and attitudes toward divorce are changing. |
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From senior staff writer Emily Belz: One privilege we have on the news team is doing on-the-ground reporting. Going in person to cover news can give you access to difficult-to-find people, but it also feeds you so many details, from seeing a source fight back emotion mid-conversation to feeling the incessant heat at a detention facility. |
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In honor of on-the-ground reporting, I am sharing some of my top smells from recent reporting experiences. There have been bad smells—rotting limbs at a hospital or the Category 5 storm of colognes from Wall Street people attending a financier’s trial—but we don’t need to revisit that. |
- Freshly cut grass on a Texas baseball field.
- Old carpet in a Tennessee church office, mixed with a brewing pot of Folgers coffee. Somehow this is very nostalgic for me, as if it’s what a church should smell like.
- Mingling of potatoes, beef, and kimchi at a post-service lunch in Brooklyn, at a church that hosts some of the disappearing Koryo-saram people.
- Woodsmoke, mixed with rain, from people making their own charcoal in Malawi.
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Today in Christian History |
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August 29, 29: Since the fifth century, tradition has this as the date for the beheading of John the Baptist. |
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As a kid, Amit Merchant never felt that he had a close group of Christian friends. Shy and unassuming, he didn’t fit in with his youth group peers. But when…
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I love back-to-school season. I love the sense of new possibilities, the reconnections after summer break, and the joy of learning. But this year, as students unpack their boxes in…
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This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Dear Mr. President, A reporter asked you not long ago about ending Russia’s war on Ukraine. “I want to end it,” you…
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Growing up as one of ten kids in a farming family, I understood from a young age that work is an inescapable part of life. Before breakfast, beds were to…
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As developments in artificial intelligence change daily, we’re increasingly asking what makes humanity different from the machines we use. In this issue, Emily Belz introduces us to tech workers on the frontlines of AI development, Harvest Prude explains how algorithms affect Christian courtship, and Miroslav Volf writes on the transhumanist question. Several writers call our attention to the gifts of being human: Haejin and Makoto Fujimura point us to beauty and justice, Kelly Kapic reminds us God’s highest purpose isn’t efficiency, and Jen Pollock Michel writes on the effects of Alzheimer’s . We bring together futurists, theologians, artists, practitioners, and professors to consider how technology shapes us even as we use it. |
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