Kate Lucky

Palo Alto

Senior Audience Engagement Editor at Christianity Today

Senior editor @CTmagazine. Formerly at @commonwealmag. Writing at @the_point_mag @Plough @ReligPolitics and elsewhere. Sign up: https://t.co/WUj2RFfLyb

Articles

Neither Pity nor Pedestal

1 week ago | christianitytoday.com | Kate Lucky

Even if a pronatalist proposal to honor mothers in the halls of power is well-intended, it's missing the point. This spring, the Trump administration is reportedly entertaining a "chorus of ideas ... for persuading Americans to get married and have more children."Some of the proposals are straightforward: cash payments for new moms and a more generous child tax credit.
Josh Garrels Is Making Music Again - Crossmap News

2 weeks ago | news.crossmap.com | Kate Lucky

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Review: The Chosen Season 5

4 weeks ago | christianitytoday.com | Kate Lucky

Vivid, artful, imperfect but faithful: Even if you know every beat of the Holy Week narrative by heart, the hit show's latest season is worth watching. Season 5 of The Chosen is vivid: bright fabrics and flowers, fountains and palms, glugs of olive oil and wine, the gleam and clatter of silver pieces, and the blood of butchered animals pooling in straw. The snap of unleavened bread. The flicker of candlelight. The scent of perfume, bought at great price and poured with abandon over Jesus' feet.
'Revelations' Is a Torrid Melodrama

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Kate Lucky

Yeon Sang-ho's Revelations, recently released on Netflix, accomplishes something contrary to its apparent end goal. Smugly critical of Christianity, the film dramatizes the fall of a young, hypocritical pastor who dreams of leading a megachurch. Believing he has been granted a special dispensation to commit crimes that forward a divine agenda, pastor Sung Min-chan gets up to all sorts of awful chicanery.
‘Revelations’ Is a Torrid Melodrama - Crossmap News

1 month ago | news.crossmap.com | Kate Lucky

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John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Awards Three Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025-2026

1 month ago | rap.wustl.edu | Kate Lucky |Debra Kennard

The faculty of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to announce its new cohort of postdoctoral fellows. The fellowships will begin with the 2024-2025 academic year and are renewable for the following year. Chanhee Heo is a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies (with a minor in History) at Stanford University this summer.
In Remembrance of Sen. Alan K. Simpson by John C. Danforth

1 month ago | rap.wustl.edu | Kate Lucky |Debra Kennard

My service in the U.S. Senate with Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, who died last week, overlapped for 14 years. Toward the end of my career there, just before I went home to Missouri, we were standing on a corner near the Capitol promising that we would stay in touch. Then Al hugged me and said, “Everyone says that, let’s really do it.”And so we did. In the 30 years since, Al and Ann Simpson and Sally and Jack Danforth spent a lot of time together, on the phone when not in person.
Hope for Tainted Creeks and Troubled Families

2 months ago | christianitytoday.com | Kate Lucky

Responders to our November/December issue told stories of estrangement and healing. Sara Kyoungah White's meditation on a polluted creek in our November/December issue struck our readers as "mournful" but also "deeply moving" and "hopeful.""I live near Plaster Creek and used to ride my bike on the path described by the author until erosion caused it to crumble," wrote one woman on Instagram.
About - By Kate Lucky

2 months ago | katelucky.substack.com | Kate Lucky

Welcome! This simple, occasional newsletter is a way for me to share my work at outlets like Christianity Today(where I’m a senior editor), Commonweal(where I used to be the managing editor), and elsewhere. In addition to book and film reviews, you can expect to find essays about faith, hope, sacrifice, and the daily works of love we undertake as spouses and parents, children and siblings, neighbors and friends. I’ll also share announcements about upcoming projects.
Wellness influencers, exvangelicals & more

2 months ago | katelucky.substack.com | Wellness Influencers |Kate Lucky

Hi readers, Both as culture editor at Christianity Today and as a freelancer at other outlets, I’m often assigned to review books, films, and other works of art. In one sense, reviews are really straightforward. Someone else has made something, and my job is simply to respond. But reviews also have the added burden of representing others’ stories and arguments accurately and generously. Today, I’m sharing some of the reviews I’ve most enjoyed writing over the last year or so.