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September 17, 2026

CT Daily Briefing

Today’s Briefing

Silicon Valley tech leaders seem like broken people, writes Russell Moore. Here’s why he isn’t ignoring their warnings about a looming AI catastrophe.

Few churches would say having a disability disqualifies someone from preaching, but are churches creating environments where leaders with disabilities can flourish?

A new live-action biblical drama, Daniel and the Fiery Furnace, offers an epic score and a well-played Nebuchadnezzar.

A retired pastor, researcher, and financial advisor on how not to be a miserable retiree.

Behind the Story

This year, our incredible copyediting team released a refreshed, 2026 edition of our CT Style Guide. Here are some of the newsletter gang’s favorite entries:

Senior news editor Emily Belz: It’s honestly enjoyable to read through a style guide for fun facts—like that you always capitalize Rust Belt, or that Cuba is historically considered part of Latin America but geographically part of the Caribbean. One detail I like is that we do not use the phrase a number of, which our style guide calls a "useless expression" since you don’t know what the specific number is. 

National political correspondent Harvest Prude: I enjoy spotting evangelical Easter eggs. For instance, I feel confident in predicting that CT is one of the only style guides to contain a reference to the iconic 1995 VeggieTales classic, "The Hairbrush Song," in an otherwise academic section on how to correctly capitalize headlines.

Copy editor Elise Brandon: As a professional style nut, I could harp on CT’s 74-page guide all day. Instead, some nuggets: "Before using a semicolon, do a semi-colonoscopy." (Let’s be real: No one likes to see a semicolon coming.) We hyphenate cease-fire. We list more than 50 denomination names, a reference that reminds us not to capitalize day in Seventh-day Adventists. And don’t get me started on "comprise/compose/constitute"—we have a whole paragraph to clarify their usage.

Senior editorial project manager Mia Staub: If a word breaks across a line in our print magazine, we never separate the words Christian or Christianity before the t. We always keep the root word Christ (Christ-ian, not Chris-tian) together even though grammatically those words should be split between the s and t. It is a small way we revere the name of Christ.


In Other News


Today in Christian History

September 17, 1179: Hildegaard of Bingen, a German abbess, mystic, author, and preacher who received visions of God from the age of 5, dies at age 82 (see issue 30: Woman in the Medieval Church).

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Beverly Hallberg has helped conservatives craft their policies and messages for over 20 years. As president of a training firm, District Media Group, she’s often the one behind the scenes…

For many years, it was widely accepted that the way to help people addicted to drugs was to support them through detoxing: Get the substance out of their system to…

"The church has died. The church has closed down," said lawyer Russell Long. Long was representing John-Paul "JP" Miller, pastor of the nondenominational Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, South…

It’s five o’clock rush hour on Wednesday afternoon, and I’m trying to think happy thoughts on my weekly one-and-a-half-hour drudge through Nashville to visit my friends Chase and Paige. The…


IN THE MAGAZINE

Cover Image of the September/October issue, 2026.

For our 70th anniversary issue, we’re studying the past. Excerpts from our archives show evangelicals in Billy Graham’s day and our own grappling with our place in public life. A new book offers a fascinating history of Christian womanhood—but makes a misleading argument, according to our reviewer. We’re also peering into the future. Artificial intelligence, GLP-1 drugs, anti-aging surgeries, next steps for the pro-life movement: These are some of the issues likely to occupy Christians for the next seven decades. But mostly, we’re spending time in the present: With a Honduran man who found himself pastoring in a Massachusetts jail while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. With the evangelical owners of a traditional Korean spa engaged in a religious freedom showdown. With faithful believers doing good work—a chef, an architect, a ball boy, a teacher (who, at age 91, is older than CT!). And with the writers of our newly expanded testimony section, who found God’s faithfulness in the midst of alien conspiracies, after a bad accident, and via an envelope in a refrigerator. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Amid our own era’s change, conflict, and uncertainty, we hope this issue declares that reassuring truth.

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