Bonnie Kristian

Pittsburgh

Editorial Director of Ideas and Books at Christianity Today

Contributing Fellow at Defense Priorities

Journalist & author. Editorial director of ideas and books at @CTmagazine, fellow at @defpriorities, grad of @BethelSeminary. Tweets delete.

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The Christian Schools That Cried Wolf

1 week ago | christianitytoday.com | Bonnie Kristian

Critics of religious academies compare modern parental concerns over sexual ethics to mid-century racism. But the echo they hear is not about education. As our twin boys played with their little sister across the classroom, they did not know what we knew: that this admissions interview could help set the course not only for their formative years but for life. Their future first-grade teacher asked why we wanted to enroll our children at her school. Well, we said, so many reasons.
How Dude Perfect Won Me Over - Crossmap News

2 weeks ago | news.crossmap.com | Bonnie Kristian

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How the Catholic Church Will Pick the Next Pope

3 weeks ago | christianitytoday.com | Mathew N. Schmalz |Bonnie Kristian

A Catholic scholar explains every step of the conclave process that will determine the successor to the late Pope Francis. With the death of Pope Francis, attention now turns to the selection of his successor.
Maybe this is what it felt like when Constantine’s Easter message dropped?

4 weeks ago | bonniekristian.substack.com | Bonnie Kristian

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, and here’s this week’s post. If you’re not already a paid subscriber, please consider upgrading to read the whole thing and support my work:This past Sunday, the White House published a presidential message on Holy Week, 2025. It is a remarkable document—as in, I find myself compelled to remark upon it. Now I understand, of course, that President Trump did not write this message.
Our Rights Come from God

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Bonnie Kristian

Good government can and must secure our life and liberty, but our rights don't depend on anything as flimsy as citizenship. It was an "administrative error," the Trump administration conceded in a court filing at the end of March, to deport a Salvadoran man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia from his home in Maryland to El Salvador's brutal CECOT prison. But error or not, the administration averred, what's done is done.
Why I’m covering Trump differently this time

1 month ago | bonniekristian.substack.com | Bonnie Kristian

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, and here’s this week’s post. Tomorrow I have an article scheduled to run which is my first direct discussion of President Trump’s second administration at Christianity Today. That’s weirdly late, particularly compared to the pace at which I covered his first term, and it got me thinking about how and why I’m covering this term differently. I landed on five main reasons. My life is different. This one’s obvious and not generalizable.
Overdiagnosis Is a Medical Problem-and a Spiritual Problem, Too

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Bonnie Kristian

Side effects may include needless worry, loss of agency, and inadequate explanations of human hardship. I have now been a doctor for over thirty years and a neurologist for twenty-five of those," Suzanne O'Sullivan writes early in The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker.
Dense, walkable neighborhoods do not have to be dystopian, family-unfriendly hellscapes

2 months ago | bonniekristian.substack.com | Bonnie Kristian |Addison Del Mastro |Joel Mathis

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, and here’s this week’s post. Vice President JD Vance gave a speech this week at a National League of Cities conference in Washington. In the back half of the talk, Vance veered into immigration—read about it at Reason if you like—but the first half focused on the cost of housing in America and the government’s role in its rise. This part was pretty good, and there are three comments I’d like to make.
Stop telling me what you think I want to write

2 months ago | bonniekristian.substack.com | Bonnie Kristian |Noah Smith

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, and here’s this week’s post. Subtitles are bad for comedy. I know the youths love reading their television, and I’ll usually assent when a younger friend or relative asks to turn on closed captions, because I am nice. But I will not assent when we’re watching a comedy. The timing is never quite right, and I will not have each surprise and punchline ruined. It’s better to miss a word here and there than to spoil every laugh. You know what ruins in a very similar way?
On good intentions and the wood chipper

2 months ago | bonniekristian.substack.com | Bonnie Kristian

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, and here’s this week’s post. If you’re not already a paid subscriber, please consider upgrading to read the whole thing and support my work:“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” viceroy Elon Musk posted earlier this month. “Could [have] gone to some great parties. Did that instead.”With all due skepticism of the greatness of the parties in question, it’s the wood chipper I want to discuss. Have you seen doge.gov?

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