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• CChristianity Today2026-10-07✓ Read

  The Cornell Seven and the High Cost of Fake Fraternity

  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 at one of the nation’s most elite university allegedly raping a young woman—a classmate—who was reportedly under the influence of alcohol and ketamine. Investigations and Read more... The post The Cornell Seven and the High Cost of Fake Fraternity appeared first on Christianity Today.

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  Why Do I Feel Homesick in My Own Home?

  Every time I return to Kenya, it feels a bit like coming home. Which is weird—I’m an American who lives in Burundi. But my family lived in Kenya years ago, and we still visit frequently. We walk out of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, and I remember my fender bender in airport parking. We Read more... The post Why Do I Feel Homesick in My Own Home? appeared first on Christianity Today.

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  The End of Flophouses and the Rise of Homelessness

  During the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863, a Union commander mistakenly pulled a division out of its defensive line only minutes before Confederates assaulted that very spot. Southern forces poured through the gap unopposed, and the Northern army collapsed.  A little more than a century later, political and financial interests worked together to reduce the supply of Read more... The post The End of Flophouses and the Rise of Homelessness appeared first on Christianity Today.

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  A Christian Case for Housing Abundance

  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 and, as best we could, count how many of our neighbors were sleeping outside. We took up this task as part of a nationwide process Read more... The post A Christian Case for Housing Abundance appeared first on Christianity Today.

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• CChristianity Today2026-10-06✓ Read

  Died: Jim Bakker, Pioneering Televangelist Later Caught in Crimes

  Jim Bakker, a pioneering televangelist later caught in scandal and financial crimes, died Oct. 5 at the age of 86, according to a statement from his second wife Lori Bakker. She did not share his cause of death. Bakker rose to fame in the 1970s and 1980s as the host of a popular Christian television Read more... The post Died: Jim Bakker, Pioneering Televangelist Later Caught in Crimes appeared first on Christianity Today.

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  We Need the Church to Face the Quiet

  For several years, I taught an undergraduate course on spiritual formation. Part of the class included readings from the desert fathers and mothers, who, following the example of Jesus (Luke 5:16), withdrew from society and went into the wilderness, embracing a life of self-denial and deep solitude.  My students dutifully completed the assignment, but they Read more... The post We Need the Church to Face the Quiet appeared first on Christianity Today.

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  This Orthodox Ascetic Made Me More Evangelical

  “Why aren’t you Catholic?” my friend from divinity school asks. It’s a valid question. As a kid, I had my feet planted on both sides of the Tiber. I’d go to Mass with my dad on Saturdays and attend a Baptist church with my whole family on Sundays. Eventually, I settled into Protestantism. I found Read more... The post This Orthodox Ascetic Made Me More Evangelical appeared first on Christianity Today.

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  Religion Is Not the Enemy of Reading

  Reading is dead, and screens are the culprit. That’s one side of James Marriott’s thesis in The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society. It’s a claim you’ve heard before, and you probably half agree. You’ve seen the teens with slack faces watching five-second reels on a loop, the “iPad kids” Read more... The post Religion Is Not the Enemy of Reading appeared first on Christianity Today.

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• CChristianity Today2026-10-05✓ Read

  Even in Many Churches, India’s Caste System Lasts Into the Grave

  When A. Raju died July 17 in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a three-day standoff over his rights as a Dalit held up his burial. As the family of the 89-year-old Catholic grieved, higher-caste Christian groups objected to having him laid to rest in their village’s common Catholic cemetery. With police keeping watch Read more... The post Even in Many Churches, India’s Caste System Lasts Into the Grave appeared first on Christianity Today.

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  AI Is Weakening Pastors’ Authority

  A California pastor named Justin Lester has built a digital twin of himself using nearly 2 million words from his sermons, books, and other messages. The artificial intelligence–generated clone offers counsel around the clock to hundreds of people in Vallejo, a city in the Bay Area. The New York Times, which reported on Lester, said Read more... The post AI Is Weakening Pastors’ Authority appeared first on Christianity Today.

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• CChristianity Today2026-10-02✓ Read

  Yays and Boos

  This summer, CT started running an occasional feature on reader responses. Here’s a new installment. Creation from Nothing Is Not the Big Bang I appreciate Brad East’s article asserting God’s creating heaven and earth from nothing. I also recommend Augustine’s reflections in his Confessions: “At the origin, which you are, you made something of nothing in your Read more... The post Yays and Boos appeared first on Christianity Today.

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  AI, Faith and Human Connection

  Pastor and scholar Greg Cootsona discusses his recent article in Christianity Today, It’s Not Good To Be Alone – With Chatbots, and explores if we are now exchanging conversation with connection. Watch the video interview here. (You will be leaving the CT site.) Chatbots are always there 24/7, but are people turning away from vital Read more... The post AI, Faith and Human Connection appeared first on Christianity Today.

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  Week of Giving Is Here

  Seventy years ago this month, Christianity Today published its first issue. Billy Graham founded CT to help Christians think biblically and engage faithfully with a changing world. Since then, wars have come and gone. Nations have risen and fallen. Technology has transformed the way we live. The questions Christians ask have changed. The culture has Read more... The post Week of Giving Is Here appeared first on Christianity Today.

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  David Gieser’s 70 Year Relationship with Christianity Today

  Christianity Today has been part of David Gieser’s life since its very beginning. His family knew Billy Graham before Graham ever conceived of the magazine—and that connection gave David a front-row seat to the ministry and vision that would become Christianity Today. David’s parents met at Wheaton College 98 years ago and discovered a passion Read more... The post David Gieser’s 70 Year Relationship with Christianity Today appeared first on Christianity Today.

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  Os Guinness Still Challenges Christians to Think

  Best-selling British author Os Guinness never planned to be a writer. America helped make him one, with a little help from Switzerland. Since then, hundreds of thousands of readers have turned to the Christian public intellectual to understand both their walk with God and their place in the world. Guinness’s 1998 title The Call, perhaps Read more... The post Os Guinness Still Challenges Christians to Think appeared first on Christianity Today.

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• CChristianity Today2026-09-29✓ Read

  What Should We Do About Diddy?

  As a child in the early 2000s, I didn’t know many celebrities apart from the ones made famous by Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. But I did know, as we called him back then, “P. Diddy.” The rapper was stylish and blingy, wealthy and charismatic. He dated the internationally beloved Jennifer Lopez. And he was, by Read more... The post What Should We Do About Diddy? appeared first on Christianity Today.

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  Historian Q&A: What Is an Evangelical?

  For our member-exclusive webinar in September, CT deputy editor Bonnie Kristian spoke with historian George Marsden. They discussed Marsden’s recent article, “1976 Was a Turning Point for Evangelicalism,” and his perspective on five decades of shifts in US politics and religion from the bicentennial to the semiquincentennial this year. The post Historian Q&A: What Is an Evangelical? appeared first on Christianity Today.

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