Absent from protests, some Twin Cities churches are nonetheless mobilizing quietly to help foreign-born neighbors—delivering food, driving kids to and from school, committing to assume parental rights if the worst happens. Great dispatch from my colleague @emilybelz.bsky.social
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“It’s amazing what cutting a bad sentence will do. Or taking out a bad paragraph. Cutting is essentially a kind of sculpture. It reveals the face inside the piece of rock.” - James Magnuson
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"If you tell your companion that you are feeling sad, it will pray for you." Smart challenging questions here from @bonniekristian.bsky.social: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/cree...
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Has KPop Demon Hunters' popularity fueled cross-cultural missions or galvanized the production of more Christian K-pop music?
Find out in our @christianitytoday.com story:
www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/kpop...
More evangelicals from China and Taiwan are finding Eastern Orthodoxy appealing. One researcher sought to uncover why.
New @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2026/01/chin...
Happy new year! Don't miss our editors' picks of stories about the vibrant global church in 2025 @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/12/glob...
Meet Lu Xiaomin, a prolific hymn writer with no formal music training who is a household name in Chinese Christian communities @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/12/lu-x...
Indian Christmas traditions are delectable--and also inspiring. Read how Christian believers open their homes to people of other faiths amid rising persecution @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/12/indi...
As we begin Advent, here's a piece I wrote a few years ago @christianitytoday.com on popular misconceptions about this season that Majority World Christians often encounter:
www.christianitytoday.com/2022/11/adve...
How do Bible verses talking about prayer as incense shape and inform our understanding of this spiritual practice?
Prayer is "a sacred entreaty to God that rises toward him with the fullness of what we carry," Bohye Kim writes @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/pray...
The evangelical theologian who founded Regent College didn't halt ministry as he aged—he just moved it into the nursing home.
@christianitytoday.com profiles Jim Houston, who turns 103 today:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/jim-...
British-born Canadian evangelical Jim Houston turns 103 today. For this @christianitytoday.com story, I got to ask him questions like: What will you say to Jesus when you get to meet him? What do you want to share with CT readers?
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/jim-...
"Reorienting a church’s musical culture toward grassroots songwriting and local eclecticism could be one sign of our upside-down kingdom." -- @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/god-...
The Christianity Today Board of Directors has unanimously elected Dr. Nicole Massie Martin as its next President and CEO.
Read more: chrst.today/3LLtTER
The high court concluded that Malaysian pastor Raymond Koh’s kidnappers acted in a “sophisticated manner” that suggested institutional involvement and ordered the state to reopen the investigation.
New on @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/mala...
Adoption fraud in South Korea is a “state-driven act—an actual crime,” Kim Do-hyun of Christian nonprofit KoRoot said. “These false records erased the truth of [a person’s] birth and enabled abuse, alienation, and despair." More in @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/sout...
Spoke to folks in/from Peru and Nigeria for this story out today @christianitytoday.com:
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The adoption fraud scandal is “every adoptee’s worst nightmare come true,” one adoptee said.
Since the 1950s, South Korea has sent around 200,000 Korean children to families in the United States, Europe, and Australia.
For more: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/sout...
NEW: In interviews with @christianitytoday.com, adoptees and advocates from South Korea grieved the recent adoption-fraud findings, which have spurred Christians in the country to reevaluate the church’s role in adoption.
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/sout...
I first pitched this story idea to my colleague Kara Bettis Carvalho in 2023. This month, I finally put words to my experience of miscarriage, shame, and how Eli and Hannah's conversation in Scripture can shape ours @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/ther...
Check out more of our translations here!
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You can now read and share @christianitytoday.com's
story on China detaining Zion Church's pastor Jin "Ezra" Mingri in Chinese (simplified & traditional), Spanish, and French.
Chinese:
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On October 8, Singapore hanged Pannir Selvam Pranthaman.
More @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/sing...
In honor of International Translation Day yesterday: Check out
@christianitytoday.com's multilingual efforts in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and more! christianitytoday.com/translations/
Yoichi Fujiyabu has spent three decades sharing God’s love to people who want to end their lives.
From Kazusa Okaya in Shirahama, Japan:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/japa...
Out on @christianitytoday.com this month: A personal essay by writer Ann Harikeerthan on growing up at a leprosy hospital in Vellore, India, and what that taught her about communal healing and restoration:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/lepr...
“The largest obstacle to evangelism in Japan may be a deeply internalized identity of ‘Japaneseness,’ which is inevitably entangled with a Shinto worldview,” evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi says.
More @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/shin...
Although institutional Shinto is declining, Japanese people still have a Shinto-influenced worldview which makes it difficult for them to ascribe to Christianity’s exclusive claims, says evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi @christianitytoday.com:
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/shin...
