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Weeks before 18-year-old Wheaton College freshman Tomassino Offer was fatally struck by a freight train in Illinois on Sunday shortly after attending church, his father said he always knew his son “belonged to his Heavenly Father first.”

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary has installed Scott Pace as their seventh president, with the new leader stressing the need for graduates who are not “detached from reality.”

The measure comes more than six years after the Diocese of Madison threatened to sue the local government of Dane County over its imposition of a 50-person cap on Mass attendance in 2020.

Be assured today, God knows your way, He sees your battle, He hasn’t forgotten you, and He’s still at work, even in the most trying of times.

This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Thom Rainer, The Revival of the Analog Church: Why Your Church Should Be Personal and In-Person (Tyndale Momentum, 2026) When church services were pushed online during the pandemic, some wondered how many would come back. Thom Rainer, a longtime pastor and church consultant, recalls speculation that Read more...

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After 56 years, today is the last day of my full-time journalistic career. It began in June 1970 when I interned with The Boston Globe, and continued in Oregon, Texas, New York, North Carolina, and Texas again. Along the way, I’ve written freelance articles for 450 publications and was editor in chief of two: World (1994–2021) and Christianity Today (2025–2026).  Read more...

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Just before dawn every school day, Demitilla Namagembe, 14, gathers her notebooks, pens, and pencils in her backpack as she prepares to leave her home in Kakamega, in western Kenya. She treks for 3.5 miles along the dusty streets until she arrives at Makunga Secondary School. Demitilla told CT going to school is her longest Read more...

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A Roman Catholic archbishop in Belarus prompted backlash for blessing the first AI-generated religious icon last Sunday, prompting questions regarding the appropriate role of artificial intelligence and icons in worship.

Months before his death, “Breaking Bad” actor RJ Mitte publicly identified himself as a Christian and was surrounded by family members who loved Jesus.

What is the mark of the Beast? We hear so much about this in Christian circles today. And yet, there doesn't seem to be a solid consensus on what this looks like and when we'll see it appear.

On Thursday, October 15, 2026, CT published an article by biographer Lucy S. R. Austen regarding Elisabeth Elliott’s sexuality. Austen, whose Crossway biography of Elliott won a CT Book Award in 2024, was writing in response to a piece published earlier this year in the magazine ARC by historian William Stell. In the midst of Read more...

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Mariah was 11 years old when her mother was shot to death in a West Memphis police chase. At 19, she landed her first job out of high school at a local McDonald’s—only to leave it two days later upon news that her father had metastasizing liver cancer. She became his sole home caregiver, losing Read more...

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In July 2020, Louisiana congressman Mike Johnson penned an op-ed celebrating American independence. “A century ago,” he stated, “the great English writer G.K. Chesterton famously observed that ‘America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration Read more...

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Philip Anthony Mitchell spent his 18th birthday on Rikers Island. The pastor of 2819 Church in Atlanta told the hosts of Wednesday’s The Breakfast Club that he liked the way he was living back then. One host asked what was hardest to give up, and Mitchell called it a dope question before he answered it.…

Carnegie Hall usually hears orchestras and recitals. Geese frontman Cameron Winter, one of the youngest artists to ever headline it, sat down at a piano and spent part of his performance insisting that God is real. Then he added, in case anyone thought it was a bit, that he isn’t kidding. That’s the closing stretch…

'Reckless Love' made him famous and nearly broke him. On 'Outsing the Angels,' the worship leader explains why he walked away — and what finally brought him back.

Research shows that 15 to 20 percent of people have an innate sensitivity that makes them highly discerning, deeply feeling and uniquely attuned to the world. They’re called highly sensitive people, or HSPs, a term from Elaine Aron’s book The Highly Sensitive Person. Some of us highly sensitive Christians struggle with anxiety. I’ve had it…

We’ve all heard them—phrases that sound wise, insightful, and biblical. But are they really?

Here’s a solution to homelessness: Give every homeless person an apartment! But the past and present of this approach suggest its simplicity is not paired with the realism, prudence, or community that will truly help many who are homeless. Throughout much of the 20th century, compassionate Americans offered a basically consistent deal to homeless addicts Read more...

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Most of us have been reading headlines about the Strait of Hormuz, chokepoint for much of the world’s oil. Let’s talk about an intellectual strait likely to be the most significant epistemological shift in all of history. We are going from acquiring knowledge directly from primary human sources to acquiring knowledge indirectly from artificial intelligence. Read more...

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One spring, a friend called and asked my husband, our son, and me to be in a music video. It would be played at an upcoming awards show behind a relatively unknown band, MercyMe, as they sang a song that was climbing the charts, “I Can Only Imagine.” Sounds glamorous. But this wasn’t an invitation Read more...

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