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This edition is sponsored by The After Party |
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A New Yorker who watched the 9/11 attacks and evacuated by boat searches for evidence of her place in the story. |
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The people who want to Make America Healthy Again—“MAHA”—raise good questions about science and health. But Christians need to consider more than what is best for the body. |
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In Rwanda, pastors are resisting government overreach, and churches continue to worship—in the shadows. |
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Behind the problem of loneliness, there’s this stubborn fact: friendship is hard. |
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From Kate Lucky, senior editor of engagement and culture: This week, the White House released a roadmap for MAHA, the “Make America Healthy Again” movement championed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Reading the report, I imagined how various people among my family and friends would react to its proposals. Some would cheer for changes to the childhood vaccine schedule. Some would be horrified. Most would welcome the proposals to get rid of food dyes and improve hospital food. There would be a lot of debate on subjects like infant formula, autism, and what kinds of food SNAP recipients should be able to purchase—and a lot of agreement about the troubling prevalence of chronic disease and food allergies. |
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I’m glad that we’re running Natalie Mead’s piece this week of all weeks. Her appeal for a discerning, eternity-minded approach to health is all the more credible from her own experience of chronic migraines and her use of both traditional and alternative treatments. She writes, “Our lives are full of medical gray areas, and Christians will likely continue to disagree on how best to steward and care for our physical bodies. But one thing we can and should agree on is that our lives are not our own.” |
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Today in Christian History |
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September 11, 813: Charlemagne crowns Louis I “The Pious,” his only surviving son, as coregent of the Holy Roman Empire. Louis’s 26-year reign, though marked by civil war, was the longest of any medieval emperor until Henry IV (1056-1106). |
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After 18 years and many failed attempts, the US and Britain laid down the transatlantic telegraph cable successfully in 1858. The first message on August 16 from Queen Victoria to…
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Here is an intriguing question. For several centuries, the study of early Christianity has attracted the interest of multiple thousands of scholars, most of whom have applied the highest critical…
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In 1994, my mother began working as a doctor at a rural hospital run by the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India. I would play elaborate games on the spacious…
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On a sun-warmed ridge at the edge of Kigali, Rwanda, where the paved road gives way to red clay and goats roam between kitchen gardens, pastor Kamanzi folds his hands…
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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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