Why beauty matters: "In this moment of cultural upheaval, we would do well to heed scholars like Wolfe and thoughtful pastors like Capps as they recover beauty’s necessity for lives and communities of deep, transformative faith." @aahales.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2025/06/judi...

Hope as an act of defiance: "If we refuse to ask what ideologies and theologies give birth to cruelty and authoritarianism and antinomianism and legalism, we shirk what we’re called to do." -- @drmoore.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/disc...

One of the best things I've read in a long while: larrysanger.org/2025/02/how-...

The "KC" and "PHI" graphics are lower-rez than literally everything else onscreen. I cannot unsee this. It burns into my very being.

On the golden promise of California (and some lovely sentences) -- from The Free Press: www.thefp.com/p/california...

California’s top insurance regulator urged insurance carriers to pay policyholders the full amount of the belongings in their coverage without requiring them to itemize every object lost — an undertaking that has burdened thousands of residents whose homes were destroyed by wildfires last month.

Tech Broligarchs Want Jesus Out of the Way www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/tech...

Was "Blue Like Jazz" a good idea? Rethinking Donald Miller's popular book. I'm with @aahales.bsky.social @christianitytoday.com www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/blue...

Yes @aahales.bsky.social: "We cannot simply critique church without seeking its peace and purity. We cannot tear down without also building up. We cannot sever spiritual growth from the manner and place in which Jesus says it takes place: the church." www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/blue...

From the creators of the hit podcast “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” comes a new show, “Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” an exploration of the Satanic Panic that gripped America in the 1980s and ’90s. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts:

Recipes, reading, and more! My first editorial note for print at @christianitytoday.com: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/read...

Read the latest issue of @christianitytoday.com. You'll love @drmoore.bsky.social's discussion of his book club, @markmeynell.bsky.social on Lewis + Ukraine, and @jenwilkin.bsky.social on aging + scripture. I wrote an article on Blue Like Jazz, + even provide a recipe in the opening Editorial Note!

“It feels like we’re losing part of our city. The Palisades seems to just be gone,” said Alex Watlington, senior pastor of Pacific Crossroads Church in Santa Monica. “There’s not just damage; it’s just gone. Like it was never there.” @emilybelz.bsky.social www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/los-...

Before-and-after satellite images released by commercial imaging firm Maxar Technologies show the extent of destruction caused by the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, which has reduced entire blocks of houses to rubble in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.

Here’s tomorrow’s front page of the @latimes. All our fire coverage is here, and the paywall has been lifted: www.latimes.com/california/l...

For SoCal friends, Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can. For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla

Praying for LA.

Our memorable print pieces from CT in 2024: www.christianitytoday.com/2024/12/memo...

Absolutely fantastic article on Heaney from Caitlyn Flanagan at @theatlantic.com. ""When Seamus stood up and read the poem, “Baptism: for Ellen and Kate Flanagan,” I accepted everything—all of it, all at once: poetry, God, and myself." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Christianity Today welcomes celebrated veteran journalist Marvin Olasky as executive editor of news and global.

Check out the full report for more interesting findings concerning the 2024 election including the number of folks who are confident Trump will peacefully leave office at the end of his term.... www.prri.org/research/ana...

Join us tonight at 8 pm ET! Christianity Today editor-in-chief @drmoore.bsky.social and CT editors @aahales.bsky.social @bonniekristian.bsky.social are celebrating our annual Book Awards (including Book of the Year winner @gavinortlund.bsky.social). Follow this link tonight: bit.ly/41nXwSe

It's tonight! You want to hear how Ortlund and East are thinking about culture, book-writing, and the role of the church. Join us!

I hope you'll join us tomorrow night with @gavinortlund.bsky.social and Brad East!

New study predicts that AI will steal almost a quarter of musicians’ income within the next 4 years (Source: CISAC). The gaslighting is over. Artists now fully grasp the AI business model—which is to destroy their livelihood and replace human music with bot slop.

This week on The Russell Moore Show: Host @drmoore.bsky.social and Pulitzer Prize winner Peggy Noonan ponder who we are and what we may become.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19 💙📚 #booksky #books

The Associated Press has officially joined Bluesky. Follow us at @apnews.com.

@christianitytoday.bsky.social CT Book Awards are out! This year, I got to be a part of the decision-making process. Snag a favorite here: www.christianitytoday.com/2024/12/chri...

I love talking books and creativity.

I created a Starter Pack of thinky faith people worth a follow. Who am I missing? go.bsky.app/AqdAzAY

Subscription/membership to Christianity Today is right now 50% off. Join us here: www.christianitytoday.com/membership/p...

MIT announced that it would eliminate tuition costs next fall for all undergraduate students whose families earn less than $200,000 per year — following a national movement to try to make higher education more accessible.

Lifeway and Crossway are releasing their first Bibles in a dyslexia-friendly typeface, starting with a kids Bible that comes with colored overlays for reading. www.christianitytoday.com/2024/11/dysl...

Let's pretend it's 2006 and the internet still feels new and we hoped social media might bring us together instead of allowing the worst of our selves to be on display. What's one goal, or a book you want to read (or write), or something beautiful that makes you happy to be alive?

I remember revisiting Things Fall Apart for my grad school essays. It felt exhilarating to read and write a paper just on anything I wanted again.