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Conservative Anglicans reject the new Archbishop of Canterbury and begin to reorder the global movement, claiming, "We have not left the Anglican Communion; we are the Anglican Communion." |
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A recent convert to the faith, journalist Molly Worthen, testifies to the strange grace of contemporary Christian music. (Really.) |
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There’s no shame in pregnancy loss, as Hannah and Eli’s conversation in 1 Samuel illustrates. |
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As more commemorative months turn up and more "holidays" spur social media shout-outs (when did we start celebrating National Sons Day and National Daughters Day?), it can be easy to forget about Pastor Appreciation Month, which falls in October. |
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J. R. Briggs once wrote for CT about the awkward tension of pastors wanting to feel appreciated this time of year: |
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Pastors don’t always get this ministry thing right. They may not preach as well as you prefer, pray as much as you deserve, counsel as well as you need, or lead as well as you desire. They know this because they feel it deep in their bones and because congregants are often quick to tell them so. … Still, most pastors are trying their best to serve and lead and pray and listen and preach and love as faithfully as they can. They won’t say publicly that they think about Pastor Appreciation Month every October, but many of the pastors I talk with do. |
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Today in Christian History |
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October 22, 4004 BC:: According to James Ussher, the well-respected and scholarly Anglican primate of the Irish Church in the early seventeenth century, God created the universe on this date at 9:00 a.m. GMT. |
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Armed Boko Haram militants kidnapped Murna Yusuf, then in her early 30s, in July 2021 as she rode on a bus from Kukar-Gadu, Yobe State, to Maiduguri, Borno State, in…
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Earlier this year, Wybo Nicolai joined hundreds of Ethiopians at a church more than an hour outside the capital, Addis Ababa. As they sang and heard from Scripture together, only…
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I never set out to be a church calendar apologist. As a child growing up in diverse denominational settings—old-school Baptist services, Roman Catholic Mass, and storefront African gatherings—I witnessed beauty…
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"Will there be harps in heaven?" Each year in my capstone course for senior computer science students, I ask them this question. Yes, many reply. But when I ask, "Will…
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The Christian story shows us that grace often comes from where we least expect. In this issue, we look at the corners of God’s kingdom and chronicle in often-overlooked people, places, and things the possibility of God’s redemptive work. We introduce the Compassion Awards, which report on seven nonprofits doing good work in their communities. We look at the spirituality underneath gambling, the ways contemporary Christian music was instrumental in one historian’s conversion, and the steady witness of what may be Wendell Berry’s last novel. All these pieces remind us that there is no person or place too small for God’s gracious and cataclysmic reversal. |
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