Reviews
Daughter finds lessons in the Holocaust
In the Old Testament, angels warned Lot and his wife not to look back on Sodom and Gomorrah as they fled. When Lot’s wife chose…
July 2022
View as PDFChristians grieve mass shootings • Good news stories • ‘This is our Exodus’ (Ukrainian refugees in Poland) • ‘Grandmother church’ of Dallas fights for its future • Third Culture Kids find a place to belong • 88-year-old radio program thrives online • What is the ‘Christian’ position on guns? • Daughter finds lessons in the Holocaust • Remembering the ‘best worshiper on the planet’
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National
‘This is wailing, weeping, heartfelt grief. This is what this town is feeling’
UVALDE, Texas — For Emmaline Whyrick, an awards ceremony last week celebrated her end-of-year accomplishments. The fourth-grader received two accolades at Robb Elementary School that…
Top Stories
After yet another mass shooting, Tulsa church prays, reflects: Is there a solution?
TULSA, Okla. — Shock. Tears. Prayers. Talk about guns. All ripple through The Park Church of Christ, a 2,000-member congregation that is a microcosm of…
Inside Story
Time to share a little good news
'We sure could use a little good news today,” Anne Murray sang in a No. 1 country hit in 1983. Nearly four decades later, negative…
International
‘This is our Exodus’
WARSAW, Poland — Yura Taran is thankful for all the years he abused drugs. It was another life ago, before he became a Christian and…
Closing Churches
‘Grandmother church’ of Dallas fights for its future
DALLAS — The steeple at the Skillman Church of Christ stretches skyward above a red-brick, Georgian building, a Dallas landmark on one of the city’s…
Top Stories
‘The mass shooting that would end mass shootings’ didn’t
When a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007, Seth Terrell was a 21-year-old campus minister for the nearby Blacksburg Church of Christ.…
National
Across the Nation: A centennial celebration, new meaning to ‘Jesus, Take the Wheel’ and more quick takes
Across the Nation is our monthly rundown of news briefs, links and quotes from Churches of Christ across the U.S. Got an idea for this…
International
Around the World: Post-pandemic visitors and hugs, seaside refugees, burning idols and more quick takes
Around the World is our monthly rundown of news briefs, links and quotes from Churches of Christ all over the globe. Got an idea for…
International
On a long, uncertain journey, a hotel of hope
PABIANICE, Poland — Joyful squeals reached an ear-shattering pitch as Ukrainian children ran across the common room of the Piemont Hotel. They finally had space…
International
‘We would sing louder than the shelling’
SOPOT, Poland — “Keep praying, Sasha!” Huddled in a hallway as bombs reduced their Ukrainian city to rubble, members of the Mariupol Church of Christ…
Features
Third Culture Kids find a place to belong
OKLAHOMA CITY — Alex Cash didn’t fit in anywhere. Cash, 22, primarily grew up in Uganda, where his parents were missionaries. He traveled back…
Partners
88-year-old radio program thrives online
‘Are you listening?” The late V.E. Howard was known for asking that question on the “International Gospel Hour” radio program, an evangelism broadcast associated with…
Opinion
Editorial: What is the ‘Christian’ position on guns?
Buffalo, N.Y. Uvalde, Texas. Tulsa, Okla. As the death toll from mass shootings grows, the gun control debate once again consumes our attention. God-fearing people…
People
‘His words in our ears’
ABILENE, Texas — Charlie Marler, the first chair of the Journalism and Mass Communication Department at Abilene Christian University, earned respect and admiration nationwide as…
People
Remembering the ‘best worshiper on the planet’
OKLAHOMA CITY — John Hayes was different. A condition called hemifacial microsomia, caused by a blood clot before he was born, kept parts of his…