Adam Hamilton, pastor of the largest United Methodist church in the United States, is about to test whether a pastor running as a Democrat can flip a red seat—and become Kansas’ first Democratic senator in nearly a century. The Associated Press called the race for Hamilton within minutes of polls cl
On January 13, 2018, Paul Fisher’s phone blared with an emergency alert: A ballistic missile was inbound to Hawaii. “THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” the message declared. Panic ensued across the Aloha State as local radio and TV stations relayed the news. People ran through Honolulu seeking shelter. Parents t
This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Stephanie Slade, Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right (University of Notre Dame Press, 2026) In her new book, Stephanie Slade dusts off the idea of “fusionism,” which defined American conservatism for deca
Since assuming power, the Trump administration has aimed to guard the myth of America’s history as uniformly inclusive, above critique, and unifying, and it has protected the sensibilities of its predominantly white political base along the way. As a result, we’ve seen commemorations of African Amer
On the morning of Saturday, August 1, Yoel Ben David peered out the window of Café Basimta, the coffee shop he manages in central Jerusalem, to see about 30 ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting outside. Counter-protesters arrived around the café’s opening at 10 a.m., followed by police officers ready to g
Alvin Joseph was not particularly interested in politics and protests until this past July, when his Instagram feed started to fill with hundreds of reels from a Gen Z protest calling for the resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan following a college exam scandal. The 23-year-old law s
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Nearly 20 years ago, the Pixar animated movie Wall-E pictured a future in which human beings lay in floating chairs, eating and consuming entertainment, their bodies atrophying from lack of use, while robots did everything for t
One reason some Americans are edgy about homelessness: Maybe it could happen to me? Many have a foreboding sense of living on the edge and risking ending up on the streets. A January 2026 US News and World Report survey showed that about a third of us don’t have enough savings to cover one month of
Reid Wiseman had just completed the longest journey from Earth in human history, and after he landed, one of his first requests was a chaplain. Wiseman was one of the four astronauts on the Artemis II space mission, NASA’s first crewed mission to orbit the moon in more than 50 years. He had snappe
Every generation of Christians replays the age-old debate: What does it mean to be in the world but not of it? The radicals insist you must sell all you have and give the money to the poor (Matt. 19:21). You must go into full-time vocational ministry or be a missionary to an unreached people group.