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1 week 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.

1 week ago | christianitytoday.com | Kelsey McGinnis

"We'd rather be free than have it be fair."Laura Gideon, a Christian homeschooling advocate, repeated the line from the rotunda of the Iowa State Capitol, where parents sat in rows of chairs alongside school-aged kids and babies sleeping in strollers. Homeschool Iowa's annual Capitol Day, held in early April, invites families to Des Moines to hear speakers, tour the Capitol, and talk with legislators. Thanks for signing up.

1 week ago | christianitytoday.com | Warren Smith

More ministries call themselves churches or associations of churches to avoid disclosure requirements. Since 2020, more than 80 of the 1,000 largest Christian ministries in the US have asked the Internal Revenue Service to classify each of them as an "association of churches." That means the ministries do not file a Form 990, a document that publicizes information about revenue, expenses, and executive compensation.

1 week ago | christianitytoday.com | Daniel Silliman

Why one evangelical Bible scholar thinks the answer might be no. The Bible doesn't say Jesus was nailed to a cross. Telling the story of Christ's death, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John simply say that Roman soldiers crucified him. They don't say how. Each of the Gospels include specific detail about the soldiers' method of dividing Jesus' clothes-a lottery-but none describe how, exactly, the soldiers put him on the cross. There are no nails mentioned in any of the four accounts. Jeffrey P.

1 week ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

The ruling said the Trump administration has not been targeting churches, and that one church raid wasn't significant harm. A federal judge on Friday declined to block the new Trump administration policy allowing immigration authorities to carry out arrests at "sensitive locations" like churches and other religious spaces. Twenty-seven Christian and Jewish groups had sued, saying the new policy violated their religious freedom under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.