Sarah Mullally, the first woman at the spiritual helm of the Church of England, inherits ongoing debates over same-sex blessings and a reckoning around abuse response. @christianitytoday.com story: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/arch...

Hamas said on Friday that it had agreed to release all of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza as well as the bodies of those who had died, in response to the peace proposal introduced by President Trump earlier this week. nyti.ms/4o6SuSA

Breaking News: Sarah Mullally will become the next archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to lead the Church of England.

Classic cover from the @christianitytoday.com archives

"We are adding a lot of features no one asked for that will make your experience worse and also cost a lot of money! Freedom isn’t free! Nor is it, exactly, the freedom you’ve been used to!"

Grateful for this award 🙏 truettseminary.baylor.edu/news/story/2...

Gateway Church founder Robert Morris is among the highest-profile pastors to face a legal sentence and jail time for child sexual abuse. Decades-old cases rarely result in criminal convictions or guilty pleas. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/robe...

Not another attack on a house of worship www.bbc.com/news/live/cx...

Evangelicals don't always agree with theologically orthodox statements of belief about God. They don't even always agree with their own statements of belief about God. A closer look at this year's State of Theology report: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/stat...

Anyway, I bought a new print for my office. I'll try again tomorrow. circa78designs.com

I went to visit the dinosaurs for sale! great visuals by Lanna Apisukh 🦖 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...

Throwback to coverage of churches helping furloughed workers during the last government shut down five years ago: www.christianitytoday.com/2019/01/gove...

But what's the best thing that could happen?

A popular rafting river in the Appalachian mountains is still closed a year after Hurricane Helene, because there's just too much debris. Now, rafting guides have come together to help clean it up.

"The Savannah Bananas, for all their intentional focus on the joy of the fans, remind us that sport is about a bigger story." What a treat to edit this @christianitytoday.com piece from former MLB pitcher Josh Lindblom! www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/sava...

Did you know that NOAA has a major office in Asheville? They put together a story map about Hurricane Helene, and it’s the best data resource I’ve seen out there about the storm. I might be a little biased, though, because I have a geography degree and love using GIS to share data.

For years, Michaelina Wautier’s paintings were attributed to men. Then a chance discovery in a Vienna museum helped bring the truth to light.

The man who officials said crashed a vehicle into a Michigan church and opened fire on the congregation has been identified by the police as a 40-year-old from Burton, who went to high school nearby and served in the Marines. Here is what else we know about the suspect.

The most important thing a church provides after a disaster is a system. But as the number of people leaving organized religion rises, Isaac Wood writes, “I worry my generation might lose access to the systems required to care for our neighbors.”

Been a year since Hurricane Helene. Have a go bag and know your neighbors.

Brian Finn is a tattoo artist in Toledo, Ohio who has been offering free and discounted tattoos for people covering trauma scars for more than 10 years.

There were important updates this week on abuse-related court battles facing the SBC, right as new revelations from the Sills defamation case emerged. A summary of some of those revelations and the SBC's argument to defeat Sills' case like it did Hunt's: www.tennessean.com/story/news/r...

A MORNING PRAYER: Incarnate God, Word made Flesh: Use my mouth, I pray, To speak a word of hope to those who despair this day. In your name. Amen. (“Prayers for the Pilgrimage” via @ivpress.bsky.social)

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox. By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands. Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid. “My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

SOUTH HAVEN PEACHES WON’T BLOW YOU AWAY BUT YOU KNOW THAT THEY’LL STAY

It's been a year since Hurricane Helene, which left us displaced for 11 months and destroyed half our house, our cars, and some of our things. We've done great, all considered, but I still feel the ache of loss sometimes. www.axios.com/2025/09/24/m...

"They worry that efforts to lionize Kirk will deepen the rift between Black and White evangelicals." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

As the Chinese experience of Christianity in America continues to evolve, writers have laid down markers — potent reminders of the way faith, race, bigotry and politics molded immigrants, leaving an indelible mark on America. religionnews.com/2025/09/19/m...

Speaking to tens of thousands of people at the memorial, Kirk said she had found comfort in prayer and also in the way people had responded to her husband's death. n.pr/47TZKMB

Ohio inmates help rehabilitate wild animals and birds from behind bars: "The men who participate in this program get a chance to care for something other than themselves." www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Marilyn Hagerty, a food columnist who startled the online world with an earnestly detail-oriented and nonjudgmental appraisal of a North Dakota Olive Garden, and who was startled in turn when the review racked up more than one million page views, has died. She was 99.

Via @bmietana.bsky.social: Southern Baptist Convention breaks with the Evangelical Immigration Table —> religionnews.com/2025/09/18/e...

The inside story of the White House's TikTok and all the left-wing influencers trying to take it down Gift link: wapo.st/3K749BV

Prestonwood Baptist, one of the larger and more influential congregations in the country, on Sunday played an AI-generated video of Charlie Kirk speaking to them after his death and telling them to “pick up your cross, and get back in the fight." Other Christians are also turning to AI.

ABC announced that it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show “indefinitely” after his comments about Charlie Kirk’s death.

"Talking to one another about our disagreements isn’t only something we should do in grief or in horror. It’s just something we should be doing." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

"These private whitewashed chapels with miniature bell towers belong to octogenarians and Generation Z, goat farmers and hotel owners, Orthodox Christians and Catholics who worship daily and de facto atheists." religionnews.com/2025/09/16/a...

Leading up to the latest scrutiny around campus speech, a college ministry joined student groups suing over new regulations in Texas. The Campus Protection Act bans First Amendment–protected speech or expressive conduct between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/texa...

INBOX: Gary Hollingsworth, former executive director of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, named interim president of the SBC's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission in the wake of former head Brent Leatherwood's resignation (erlc.com/press/erlc-t...). erlc.com/press/erlc-t...

At the Vatican, the mother of slain journalist James Foley shares about the Spirit's work as she met with the ISIS fighter who took him hostage. “In those dark moments I prayed desperately for the grace not to become bitter, but to be forgiving and merciful.” apnews.com/article/vati...

Social media advice from @axios.com: "Be deeper, not louder." www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Over 3,000 Southern Baptist leaders have signed a statement of lament, calling for justice after the assassination of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence is a grave sin and it represents a threat to our nation and its government." www.sbc.net/justice/

So. What’s made baseball steadying to my mental health this year is: 1. Something I can pay attention to where there is joy and something good regularly happens. 2. Low stakes as far as the wider world. 3. Low stakes day-to-day because there are 162 games in the regular season.

There is no better explainer of internet culture than @garbageday.email. If you're confused by what in the world is going on with Charlie Kirk's killer, this might help. It's, you know, pretty bad. www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

JUST IN: A historic conviction: Brazil's Supreme Court delivers a majority vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro over a plot to overthrow the government.

COOL JOB ALERT: Washington & Lee University seeks assistant professor in journalism who would teach live TV production and TV journalism. The students have a live, weekly newscast; we need a professor to oversee that program and teach TV stuff. DETAILS: loom.ly/WzQ6ezk

How Charlie Kirk became Charlie Kirk: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/died...

"I watched hours of 9/11 videos and combed through countless stills from every angle. I saw chaos, compassion, grief, survival. I saw echoes of our story. But I did not see us." www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/the-...

For millions of conservative Christians, Charlie Kirk symbolized the hope of the new Christian right. Now, he is considered a martyr.

There are a lot of factors that influence this, and this is entirely anecdotal, but: the horrific close-up footage of Charlie Kirk’s shooting was hard to avoid on X yesterday. Saw it multiple times without even trying. But while I saw lots of news of the shooting on Bluesky, never saw the clip here