Morgan Lee

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Global Managing Editor at Christianity Today

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Articles

Sudan's Refugees Are Building New Lives. They Could Still Use the World's Attention.

2 weeks ago | christianitytoday.com | Morgan Lee

American evangelicals once helped foster global empathy toward those suffering in the large African nation. But that was 30 years ago. Thirty years ago, American evangelicals were mailing $50 donations to organizations that liberated enslaved Christian in Sudan from their Muslim captors. Evangelicals flew halfway around the world to see women and children receive their freedom in real time. They advocated for US foreign policy that hit religious freedom violators with sanctions.
Inkwell Gatherings Provide A Much-Needed Space for Christian Creatives

3 weeks ago | christianitytoday.com | Morgan Lee

One Friday night last May, Grace Pike was finalizing the details for a Christianity Today Inkwell event that would shortly bring over 200 people to a space in downtown Colorado Springs. While she prepped, one of the evening's guest artists, writer and photographer Lancia E. Smith, approached her, and the two connected in person for the first time. They marveled at Inkwell and its unique ability to bring together Christian writers, artists, and creatives.
Filipino Evangelicals Celebrate-and Protest-Duterte's International Criminal Court Arrest

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Morgan Lee
'Severance' Makes a Case for Suffering

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Morgan Lee

The hit Apple TV series shows the limits of escapism. Mark Scout cannot bear the reality of his wife's death. When he's alone with his thoughts, he ambles over to the fridge, cracks open a beer, and dozes off with the TV on. When he heads to the office, he sticks his phone in a locker, lets a security officer wave him down with a wand, and enters an elevator that activates a chip in his brain, cutting off his access to any memories outside his workplace's basement.
'Going Outside' Hasn't Found Me My Person

Feb 11, 2025 | christianitytoday.com | Morgan Lee

But getting off the apps is still important for my Christian witness. "Touch grass." It's the command social media users bark when they want to underscore just how out-of-touch they find others' takes. Ditch your screen, walk out your front door, and inhale reality. Presumably one breath of blue sky and a front lawn under your feet will cure you of your internet radicalization. More recently, I've heard a gentler version of this dig applied to dating advice.
He Prayed Psalm 91 as Bullets Landed on His Roof

Feb 4, 2025 | christianitytoday.com | Morgan Lee

A Congolese Christian struggles with despair after the rebel group M23 disrupts his family's life in Goma. A week and a half ago, Moïse Ombeni took his wife and four kids to church in Goma, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that sits on the Rwandan border. By the time the second service ended, their pastor had called off the next one, directing congregants to get to safety as rebel militants moved into the area. The next day, Ombeni watched people flee the city.
20 Stories About a Vibrant Global Church

Dec 19, 2024 | christianitytoday.com | Morgan Lee

Mennonites thriving in Paraguay, architecturally stunning church buildings in China, and persistent faith amid Haiti's pervasive gang violence. Illustration by Christianity TodayEarlier this year, videos of Fijian rugby players singing hymns from the Olympic Village in Paris began to circulate on social media. As their voices traveled through the commune, curious athletes took out their phones and shared the music and its messages with the rest of the world.
10 Stories about the European Church in 2024

Dec 19, 2024 | christianitytoday.com | Morgan Lee

Jürgen Moltmann passes, Russia restricts Ukrainian churches, and church planters strategize about how to start congregations on a continent that thinks it doesn't need God. Illustration by Christianity TodayHow do you start a congregation in Liechtenstein? It's very wealthy, and the father and son team trying to get a church going there say only about 10 percent of the population visits a house of worship on a weekly basis.
A Greater Light than Diwali

Dec 18, 2024 | christianitytoday.com | Morgan Lee

South Asian Christians use connections between the Diwali festival and Christmas to point their communities to Christ. In New Delhi's Chittaranjan Park, Mary David adjusts the traditional Christmas star hanging from her balcony. The fading remnants of her neighbors' Diwali lights from last month create a gentle reminder of South Asia's unique festival season. "It's beautiful how the celebrations flow into each other," she says, arranging her Advent wreath.
Marcos Witt Was Tired of the ‘Same Old Christmas Songs’ - Christianity Today

Dec 18, 2024 | christianitytoday.com | Morgan Lee |Hernán Restrepo

Latin America’s beloved worship musician wanted to apply Psalm 96:1 to a tradition-heavy genre.