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

“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 tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/8064561...

"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...

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: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/bibl...

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...

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: zh.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/ezra... zh-tw.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/ezra...

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...

Can Shinto be considered Japan's "national religion"? How did Christians in Japan respond to State Shinto, which revered the emperor as a supreme being? Find out more @christianitytoday.com: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/shin...

“One defining characteristic of Shinto is its emphasis on ritual purity and harmony with nature. But this notion of purification differs considerably from the Christian concept of holiness before God.” www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/shin...

NEW @christianitytoday.com: Kazusa Okaya interviews Japanese evangelical scholar Yoichi Yamaguchi on the nature of Shinto, its development in Japan, its interactions with Christianity, and its implications for evangelism in the country. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/shin...

"Women are grieving real children whom they carried in their bodies, and we address them as if they have merely lost an aspiration. But God does not view preborn babies this way." -- Brittany Lee Allen

Encouraging to see 3 Asia stories trending @christianitytoday.com! Links in thread

Just me popping up to talk about having a baby face, ageism, and leadership in Asian Christian ministry settings: www.instagram.com/reel/DNa1d1p...

Editing this piece made me think I should start hand-copying Scripture too. I’ll probably begin with the Psalms. What about you? www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/chin...

On Korea's 80th Liberation Day, Ahrum Yoo reflects on widespread portrayals of Japan as Korea’s brutal oppressor and how she grew to view Japan through the lens of another biblical story @christianitytoday.com: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/japa...

"I am intrigued by our modern-day penchant for making monsters and demons safe—or cute or attractive or morally ambiguous—and how this might be creating a sense of spiritual ambivalence." My reflection on "KPop Demon Hunters," "Demon Slayer," Labubu: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/labu...

Labubu, ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ ‘Demon Slayer’: We humanize these otherworldly creatures because we’re spiritually ambivalent. My latest @christianitytoday.com:

"MAID now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada—more than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined"

Singapore turns 60 on Aug 9. The prophetic call for the country to be an Antioch of Asia has helped and also hindered mission efforts, said the Singaporean Christian leaders I interviewed in my @christianitytoday.com report last year: www.christianitytoday.com/2024/09/sing...

"In this passage, knowing Jesus comes not by way of word but by way of smell. Fragrance, rather than doctrinal revelation, becomes the medium of recognition." -- Bohye Kim

Anyone else partial to cozy fiction lately? I shared some recent reads in @christianitytoday.com's Weekend newsletter, which you can subscribe to here: pages.christianitytoday.com/ct-weekly

Had a great time talking with The Sola Network's Aaron Lee about my work as @christianitytoday.com's East Asia editor!

One thing I love about my job is the opportunity to publish pieces that wrestle with aspects of Chinese culture from a Christian perspective. Here are some stories I recommend @christianitytoday.com (see thread):

Jesus’s presence lingers in those who love him, “a fragrance that emerges not through ritual smoke but through lives thoroughly shaped by the enduring imprint of knowing him.”

Anyone else spending summer weekends at the beach or at a lake? This @christianitytoday.com piece offers a deeper understanding of the sea in Scripture:

South Korea recently detained six Americans for attempting to send rice and Bibles to North Korea. Christian nonprofits and groups in South Korea worry that the incident will hamper efforts to reach the reclusive country. On @christianitytoday.com:

In Anchorage, a hymn-singing hiker shares God's creatures through game-camera footage. @christianitytoday.com reports from Alaska: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/07/sing...

We have a small and dedicated team @christianitytoday.com covering the Asia region. Read our latest pieces about India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea, China, and more: www.christianitytoday.com/topics/asia/

A recent interview with Singapore pastor Kong Hee, who was convicted of fraud years ago, brought out issues of repentance and prosperity-gospel teachings among Chinese Christians. My report for @christianitytoday.com:

160 years ago, Hudson Taylor founded China Inland Misison (CIM), now OMF. Read how his wish for a 'thousand lives' for China's millions has become a reality:

“We must stop using Scripture to justify our political opinions. The Bible is not a partisan weapon," says one Korean evangelical amid deepening political polarization in the country. NEW on @christianitytoday.com: