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In the March/April edition of Christianity Today’s print magazine, Karen Swallow Prior writes about experiencing infertility and embracing the life to which God has called her. "Childlessness can be a calling in the same way that being a parent is a calling, or as marriage or celibacy can be callings," she writes. "Not to be called to something is inherently to be called to something else, even if that something else is elusive for a while." |
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Children are a gift. A gift is neither a right nor an obligation. A gift is given. A gift is received. A gift is not to be demanded or rudely refused. The best gifts are not deserved or bought, sometimes not even sought. The gift of children is like this. So, too, are the other gifts God brings. Sometimes, while we are looking for one gift, it can be harder to see another one resting, still wrapped, in the other direction. |
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CT’s senior features editor Kara Bettis Carvalho also wrote about fertility for this edition of the magazine, exploring how an increasing number of evangelical women are turning to natural family planning and procedures pioneered by Catholic health care providers to get pregnant. |
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"I don’t know how my family’s story ends," she writes. "But I do know that it is God who opens and closes the womb. Whether he chooses to do that with help from ARTs or natural fertility care, he is still sovereign over the creation of life." |
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Easter is just around the corner, and it’s a beautiful time to share the story of Jesus with the children in your life! If you want to share stories that go deeper than candy and bunnies, Easter stories from Little Shepherd Books teach kids how to pray and show them what it means to live with a deep sense of hope, faith, and love. |
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From journeying through springtime miracles with Tiny Bear’s Easter Prayer and learning to pray together with My First Read and Learn: Easter Prayers to engaging with God’s Word through the Read and Learn Bible, there’s something for everyone’s Easter basket! Celebrate the wonder of Easter and Jesus’s great love with Little Shepherd Books. |
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On this week’s episode of The Russell Moore Show, Russell sat down with novelist Allen Levi for a conversation about his book, Theo of Golden. Levi described visiting Portugal as he was working on the book, searching for detail and encouragement to finish the story. He wanted to make sure the protagonist’s name made sense, given his background. After searching and searching, he happened across Theo’s Bar and Grill. |
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"It was also an affirmation to me about the choice of the name," Levi told Russell, "and it just kind of gave me a nudge to keep on writing." | Listen here. |
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Bonnie Kristian, deputy editor: Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon—I think this is the first novel I’ve ever read by someone of my generation. (My taste runs heavily toward prewar British detective stories.) It’s also a vivid illustration of the thesis in Tom Holland’s Dominion and Nadya Williams’s piece for CT explaining how dramatically Christianity has changed our baseline ethics around matters like genocide. |
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Kara Bettis Carvalho, senior features editor: I enjoyed reading through this piece on the history of the English language. |
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Marvin Olasky, editor in chief: Recommended bedtime stories based on experience with my four sons 29-42 years ago: C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia at age six or so, and Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings at 7–9. Lewis works almost word for word. Tolkien is more challenging, and parents should abridge some sections, but kids will enjoy going high over the misty mountains cold and down into dungeons deep and caverns old. |
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"How long till we get to the beach, Mommy?" We were about seven minutes from our driveway the first time Henry asked. He was four years old, and the two of…
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One answer keeps surfacing for men’s struggles in our modern world: books. In podcasts, essays, Substack newsletters, and social media feeds, many across the ideological spectrum are increasingly offering reading…
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This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. The United States and Israel are at war with Iran. Put aside, for a moment, whether you or I support or oppose…
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Certain Bible verses demand to be quoted in the King James Version, and Hebrews 10:25 is one of them. Following calls to "hold fast the profession of our faith without…
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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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