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Each week the editors of Christianity Today go beyond hashtags and hot-takes and set aside time to explore the reality behind a major cultural event.

There’s not a lot making Americans hopeful these days. More than half of the country told pollsters last year that they were “extremely worr...

100,000 Americans died from April 2020 to April 2021 due to opioids, according to numbers released this week from the Centers for Disease Co...

Last Friday, both chambers of Congress passed an infrastructure bill that will commit more than one trillion dollars to America’s deteriorat...

Politicians, business leaders, and activists from around the world are meeting this and next week in Glasgow, Scotland, to make commitments...

This week, the revelations from a number of internal Facebook documents came to light, thanks to Frances Haugen, a former employee of the so...

On Saturday, a gang kidnapped 17 North American missionaries in Haiti as the party returned from an orphanage in a suburb of Port-au-Prince....

Season 1 and Season 2 spoilers ahead. The second season of Ted Lasso ends with an image of Nate. The once kitman, recently promoted Greyhoun...

This week, Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, announced that he would retire at the end of the year. An eva...

In this third decade of the 21st century, we’ve seen a lot of religious scandals, with Christian leaders abusing their power and position. T...

On August 29, as American troops were accelerating their pullout from Afghanistan, the U.S. military ordered its last drone strike in the 20...

This year marks 20 years since 19 men hijacked four planes, driving two of the aircraft into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon,...

In recent weeks, some Americans sick with COVID-19 have been looking for a cure from a very unorthodox source: ivermectin. Here’s how the Fo...

Here's a special, stand-alone Slow to Speak where guest host Kate Shellnutt joins Morgan Lee to read over listener feedback from Episode 271...

This spring and summer, a lot of headlines about the economy sang a similar tune: From CNN: Why American workers don't want to go back to no...

Earlier this year, Joe Biden announced that after close to 20 years, the United States would be withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. Las...

This week, the Christian Post reprinted a blog by Samuel Sey, a Canadian writer, entitled, “Why I am not getting the vaccine.” Sey’s essay d...

Due to production issues, we are not running a new podcast today. Instead, we are replaying a unfortunately, once-again-timely episode we re...

After one vault on Tuesday, Simone Biles took herself out of the US gymnastics women’s team competition. A day later, she withdrew from the...

This Tuesday, Amazon founder and the richest man on the planet, Jeff Bezos, entered space for the first time. This was the virgin flight for...

Half a dozen Canadian churches have been set on fire or burned down this summer. This arson has come at a time when multiple mass graves hav...

On Wednesday, Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated. His death came after protesters had demanded his departure for months. Moïse...

Christians should be afraid of critical race theory. That’s the message that a number of conservative Christian leaders have shared in recen...

On October 14, 2014, Pastor Mark Driscoll resigned from Mars Hill, the Seattle-based church he had founded and led since 1996. Driscoll gain...

More than 16,000 Southern Baptists met in Nashville this week for their convention’s annual meeting. The largest crowd in a quarter century,...

After more than 40 years leading Saddleback Church, Rick Warren has announced his retirement. “This is not the end of my ministry,” Warren t...

China has expanded the number of children married couples can have to three. Home to nearly 1.4 billion people—or more than one billion more...

Across the country, American cities are unsuccessfully grappling with how best to address homelessness. This month, Austin criminalized sitt...

For the past two weeks, the world has had its eyes on the violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Each day, new headlines emerge...

Last year, the US birthrate experienced its largest single-year drop in nearly 50 years. For years, America’s 2.1 fertility rate made it an...

Last week, President Biden addressed Congress to stump for his latest proposal: The American Families Plan. If passed as is, the initiative...

In 2019, 400,000 people around the world died of malaria. But it may never reach that high a number again. Early trials of a new vaccine hav...

On May 25 of 2020 police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds killing him. On Tuesday, a jury...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. Last Friday, a bill that would ban transgender athletes from compe...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. This week, the number of Americans who have received their first d...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. This week, Protestants and Catholics around the world will celebra...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. Last week, a gunman shot up three spas in Atlanta, taking the live...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. Last month, the House of Representatives voted to approve the Equa...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. On Sunday, millions watched Oprah interview Prince Harry and Megan...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. In 2019, prime minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize. The...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. Last week, conservative talk radio personality Rush Limbaugh died...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. Last week, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries released a 12-p...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. One third of San Francisco public schools will be renamed in the c...

This special episode of Quick to Listen is brought to you by CT Creative Studio in partnership with PBS. It’s the first Black History Month...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. The last time you heard about GameStop was when you went to the ma...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. “Was the US never really a “Christian country,” or was US Christia...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. For years, one of the primary ways that people experienced Donald...

Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. As crowds lined up in front of the Capitol last week, Christian im...

This podcast was originally released on September 9, 2020. Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. A consp...

Last week, Argentina became the first Latin America country to legalize abortion. The Senate approved the bill two years after it rejected a...

As we close 2020, more than 81 million people total have tested positive for COVID-19. Nearly 1.8 million people have died of it. The virus...