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This week at Christianity Today, Russell Moore honored the late John Perkins after his death last Friday at the age of 95. Perkins faced suffering from the start: His mother died of malnutrition the year he was born, his brother was killed by a police chief, he was drafted and served in Okinawa at the beginning of the Korean War, and he contended with violence and backlash as he fought for civil rights throughout his life. Russell writes that Perkins "stood with ideas and action and the kind of moral authority that can come only from testing those ideas with his life—standing for something true and loving something real." He continues, |
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To those who wanted to honor civil rights and care for the poor but couch their concerns in vague generalities about "the divine," Perkins thundered, "Jesus!" |
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And to those who wanted to keep the Jim Crow mentality, just substituting modern complaints for the language their grandparents would use, Perkins stood with the Bible: "Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts" (James 5:4). |
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Read the rest of his tribute here. |
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This summer, more than 5 billion people will tune in to the World Cup. Moments like this don’t just entertain, they open doors—for connection, for community, for conversations. |
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Step into this moment with faith and confidence by hosting a fun, welcoming watch party for your neighbors. These simple, flexible resources will help you engage the world’s most-watched sporting event with hospitality and faith. |
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On this week’s episode of The Russell Moore Show, Douglas McKelvey, author of the Every Moment Holy prayer books, discusses his newest volume, Rites of Passage, prayers and liturgies for people transitioning from adolescence to young adulthood. |
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"I fell into it backwards," he said of writing prayers. "I was working on a science fiction novel and grew frustrated with myself. … I was spinning my wheels, not actually getting a lot of work done." Liturgies, for him, were "a reorienting practice," initially for "the poetic challenge of it." When he shared the prayer with Andrew Peterson, founder of The Rabbit Room, Peterson immediately wanted more liturgies, like one for beekeeping. "There’s actually something in this model that could really serve the bride of Christ," McKelvey remembered realizing. | Listen here. |
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Ashley Hales, editorial director, features: Martin Shaw’s Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us. Jake Meador likened him to Robert Farrar Capon (The Supper of the Lamb), and the prose sings! He’s a rare sort of writer who can make Christianity strange and beautiful again for those of us who can be sometimes overly familiar with God. |
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Bonnie Kristian, deputy editor: I really like Caputo’s, a family-owned business in Utah, for hard-to-find, high-quality ingredients for cocktails and other special occasions. They carry an excellent orgeat syrup that’s wonderful in traditional tiki drinks or even a fancy, nonalcoholic limeade. |
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This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Sam Luce and Hunter Williams, How to Teach Kids Theology: Deep Truths for Growing Faith (New Growth, 2025) A. W. Tozer…
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The day after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Elisha Lazarus—a Messianic believer and reservist in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)—reported to a top-secret base in northern Israel as…
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Each year, I teach multiple sections of a course with the unwieldy catalog title The Bible as Literature and in Literature and the Arts. This interdisciplinary offering examines biblical figures,…
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No good editor will let you start an article with a dictionary definition, which is perhaps the surest sign that a writer has no idea where to begin. But for…
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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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