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On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, an Army veteran wrestles with disillusionment from all the sacrifices that came after—and how he found hope again.

Historian John Fea looks back at how evangelicals reacted to 9/11: with prayer and provocative rhetoric.

These books on parenting show how to cultivate health and harmony at home. 

A violent kidnapping shaped a missionary couple’s determination to return to ministry. 

With a lull in the national conversation about race, Christians can choose faithfulness over apathy.

Behind the Story

In October 2001 in a staff newsletter, CT’s Ed Gilbreath wrote down the experience of Christianity Today’s workers after the attacks. The magazine staff quickly swapped out the planned cover story, a board meeting was canceled, and the marketing team learned it could not send bulk mailings to New York. Gilbreath remembered, three days after the attack:

The CT staff gathered in front of the 465 building [the CT office] to join the nation in a Day of Prayer and Remembrance. We sang “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” “It Is Well With My Soul,” and “America the Beautiful” with fresh understanding. We listened as various staff members recited verses from Psalm 91 and Lamentations 3, and as they read encouraging e-mails from CT’s friends and supporters from around the world. We were challenged by CT president Paul Robbins’s poignant paraphrase of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount: “Love the terrorists and pray for those who persecute you.” And, yes, we prayed. “It was a very fitting and beautiful time,” says Harold Myra. “We’ve all been gratified and amazed with how prayer has become so central to our nation during this crisis.”


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Today in Christian History

September 11, 813: Charlemagne crowns Louis I “The Pious,” his only surviving son, as coregent of the Holy Roman Empire. Louis’s 26-year reign, though marked by civil war, was the longest of any medieval emperor until Henry IV (1056-1106). Deeply religious, Louis cleared the imperial court of pagan imagery collected by his father, sent his unmarried sisters to nunneries (partly to keep them away from scheming brothers-in-law), and performed public penance before Pope Paschal I for causing the death of his rebellious son Bernard, king of Italy.

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Since Marcus testified against a major scam syndicate in a Manila courtroom in September 2023, the Burmese national has needed to hide his identity and constantly look over his shoulder,…

Fifty Hispanic Pentecostal bishops and denominational leaders, who represent more than 21,000 congregations across the United States and Latin America, gathered in Washington on Tuesday to press the Trump administration…

On February 4, 2006, the night before Super Bowl XL, assistant coach Jim Zorn gathered his men after a chapel service. “Isn’t God so good?” he said, beaming. He was…

Show Notes In this episode of The Just Life, host Benjamin Watson sits down with Joe Knittig, CEO of Care Portal and The Global Orphan Project. Joe shares his journey…


IN THE MAGAZINE

Cover Image of the September/October issue, 2026.

For our 70th anniversary issue, we’re studying the past. Excerpts from our archives show evangelicals in Billy Graham’s day and our own grappling with our place in public life. A new book offers a fascinating history of Christian womanhood—but makes a misleading argument, according to our reviewer. We’re also peering into the future. Artificial intelligence, GLP-1 drugs, anti-aging surgeries, next steps for the pro-life movement: These are some of the issues likely to occupy Christians for the next seven decades. But mostly, we’re spending time in the present: With a Honduran man who found himself pastoring in a Massachusetts jail while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. With the evangelical owners of a traditional Korean spa engaged in a religious freedom showdown. With faithful believers doing good work—a chef, an architect, a ball boy, a teacher (who, at age 91, is older than CT!). And with the writers of our newly expanded testimony section, who found God’s faithfulness in the midst of alien conspiracies, after a bad accident, and via an envelope in a refrigerator. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amid our own era’s change, conflict, and uncertainty, we hope this issue declares that reassuring truth.

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