childlessness can be a calling

Civil rights leader John Perkins, who proclaimed the gospel against racism, has died.

Karen Swallow Prior writes about her experience with infertility and finds that like parenthood, childlessness can be a calling.

Infanticide rates have declined in Africa. But child abandonment and occasional infanticide of children with disabilities continue to be problems.

A South Indian missionary initiated a new Bible translation for millions of Hadoti speakers in northwest India. The fourth Sunday of Lent this weekend is traditionally called Laetare Sunday, based on the sung command "Rejoice!," and it sits halfway between Ash Wednesday and Easter.

Behind the Story

From CT contributor Karen Swallow Prior: I’ve written a handful of times over the years about my infertility and childlessness. But when Christianity Today asked me to write a longer reflection on the subject for their March/April print issue, I realized that it had been a while since I’d done so, and that I’d never written a feature-length article on this subject. I eagerly said yes and spent a few weeks last fall writing, revising, editing—and praying over my words.

I felt the Lord’s grace over my writing, and then when I saw the illustrations in progress, I felt that grace once again. It is a gift as a writer to work with a team—editor, proofreaders, artists, publication. It’s kind of like making a child—it’s a team effort, and there are a lot of ways things can go wrong—and a lot of ways in which God’s grace hovers over and in and through it all, no matter the outcome.

 

The Chosen breaks the Guinness World Record—again—for most translated season for a streaming series, with 125 languages. CT reported on the show when it first dubbed or subtitled the show into 50 languages in 2024. The head of the Turning Point USA chapter at Florida International University stepped down after Miami Herald reporting showed his participation in a racist group chat. CT has previously reported on Black clergy reckoning with Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk’s legacy on race.  Roscoe Robinson, a gospel musician who redirected his work to pop and R&B before returning back to his musical roots, died in late February. He was 97.

Today in Christian History

March 16, 1072: Adalbert, Archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg, dies. He energetically promoted missionary activities in Scandanavia, Iceland, Greenland, and the Orkneys, but he seems to have been largely unsuccessful.