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A teenage school-shooting survivor found help recovering from trauma with faith—and EMDR, an increasingly popular therapy. |
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In Texas, international student ministries are helping students struggling with post-graduation job uncertainties due to recent H-1B visa changes. |
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A letter from Christianity Today president Nicole Martin on helping the church think clearly. |
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From senior staff writer Emily Belz: Today’s story about EMDR was brewing for a while in my mind. In covering the Annunciation Catholic School shooting late last year, I kept hearing families bring up going to eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy to deal with the trauma. For other stories over the years, I’ve heard Christian counselors bring it up. Then I started noticing friends talking about it. That puts an automatic flag in my mind for a potential story, especially since it was not a topic CT had covered before. |
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Also making it story-worthy is some amount of tension over it: A biblical counseling organization (generally speaking, a more conservative subset of Christian counselors) put out a statement critical of EMDR in 2021, calling it "Christ-less." Christian counselors in general support it. |
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My goal wasn’t to focus on EMDR when I first spoke to Ellie Wyse, who lived through a school shooting in 2019, but she brought up how much it had helped her. News in general tends to be bad, but I wanted to highlight something good that came out of a horrible news event. |
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Today in Christian History |
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March 9, 1831: Evangelist Charles Finney concludes a six-month series of meetings in Rochester, New York. The meetings, which have been called "the world’s greatest single revival campaign," led to the closing of the town’s theater and taverns, a two-thirds drop in crime, and a reported 100,000 conversions (see issue 20: Charles Finney). |
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What is God’s heart? What does he value? What relative importance does he place on the different facets of our flourishing? He certainly cares for our spiritual lives, but what…
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It’s disorienting to live in Christian community in the United States today. Those who agree on Jesus, read the same Scriptures, and confess the same creeds diverge sharply on the…
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This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Jack Kelly, Tom Paine’s War: The Words That Rallied a Nation and the Founder for Our Time (St. Martin’s Press, 2026)…
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In 1975, CT tried to understand the charismatic movement. Was it evangelical? Was it biblical? Was it good for the church? The magazine published a charismatic theologian making the case…
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In this issue of Christianity Today and in this season of the Christian year, we explore the bookends of life: birth and death. You’ll read Karen Swallow Prior’s essay on childlessness and Kara Bettis Carvalho’s overview of reproductive technologies. Haleluya Hadero reports on artificially intelligent griefbots, and Kristy Etheridge discusses physician-assisted suicide. There is much work to be done to promote life. We talk with Fleming Rutledge about the Crucifixion, knowing that while suffering lasts for a season, Jesus has triumphed over death through his death. This Lenten and Easter season, may these words be a companion as you consider how you might bring life in the spaces you inhabit. |
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