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The Trump administration set a restrictive refugee ceiling for 2027, announcing that the United States will accept a maximum of 17,500 refugees—primarily white South Africans—next year. |
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Roundly condemned for the first 1,500 years of the church, the practice of charging interest when lending money is now widely embraced. Christians would do well to reconsider. |
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Chris Mitchell has walked with God for 45 years, but the Lord still surprises him: Once, when money was tight, his wife discovered $800 in the refrigerator. |
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The confessions, the comforter, and ChatGPT: Andrew Wilson reviews a new Augustine translation, a meditation on Psalm 23, and an exploration of the Lutheran doctrine of vocation in a world of AI. |
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From international editor Angela Lu Fulton: Today we published a piece about the Trump administration setting the refugee cap at 17,500 slots, primarily for white South Africans. That means persecuted Christians from countries such as Pakistan, Myanmar, and Afghanistan have one less pathway to safety. |
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CT’s global reporting elucidates why these numbers matter. One Pakistani Christian family has lived in Thailand for more than a decade as they seek to resettle in the US. They received sponsorship from American churches through Welcome Corp until the Trump administration ended the US refugee program last year. In Myanmar, Christian ethnic minorities face attacks from the military amid the ongoing civil war. Those who escaped the war through US-funded scholarships saw the program abruptly eliminated through USAID cuts. |
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And an upcoming piece that I cowrote in the November/December issue of our print magazine covers two Afghan allies who have tried for years to come to the US through the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) process and the help of Americans. Only one is in the US now. |
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Is the next C.S. Lewis right under your nose? |
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In an age hungry for hope, the world needs a new generation of storytellers—writers who can weave truth into unforgettable fiction the way C.S. Lewis and Tolkien once did. That next generation is already here: teens filling notebooks with epic sagas, college students crafting stories that stir the heart. What they’re missing isn’t talent or determination. It’s the guidance to turn that God-given gift into a real path forward. |
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This fall, The Next C.S. Lewis Fellowship offers exactly that: a free, five-week online mentorship led by bestselling author Brett Harris and the team at The Author Conservatory, where aspiring writers ages 15-30 learn directly from working authors and industry professionals. Fellowship participants join live training sessions on writing craft and the publishing world, gain access to an exclusive resource library, and can apply for a share of $100,000 in scholarships to keep going. Writers join by nomination, so the invitation is yours to extend. |
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The World Changes. Christ Doesn’t. |
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Seventy years ago, in October 1956, the first issue of Christianity Today was mailed, and since then the ministry has helped people make sense of a changing world through a biblical lens. |
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Wars have come and gone. Nations have risen and fallen. Culture has changed. But Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. |
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Has CT helped you find clarity when the world felt confusing, challenged you to think more deeply about your faith, or reminded you that Christ is still at work in his Church? If so, will you show your support during CT’s annual Week of Giving, October 5-9, to ensure this trusted Christian voice remains here for the next generation? |
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Today in Christian History |
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October 9, 1000: Leif "the Lucky" Eriksson, who later evangelized Greenland, is reported to have been the first European to reach North America on this date. But while he was certainly a member of an early Viking voyage to "Vinland" (probably Nova Scotia), it’s doubtful he led the initial expedition (see issue 63: Conversion of the Vikings). |
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This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. The "Cornell seven" sexual assault case shocked the nation this week. Americans read and heard about members of the Chi Phi fraternity…
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Sunday school was nearly empty. Our teachers prepared lessons every week and announced them in the church newsletter. Yet three years after the pandemic, adult attendance averaged about 15 in…
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When Victor Wanjala lost his job in 2010, he lost everything, including his marriage and savings. The father of eight from Trans-Nzoia County, Kenya, worked nearly four decades as a…
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One night this past January, I drove around my neighborhood on the east side of Los Angeles with a friend. Our goal that night was to survey approximately 50 streets…
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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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