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Emily Belz
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Emily Belz
@emlybelz
News @ Christianity Today | [email protected] or DM | fan of baseball, chess, McDonald's apple pie
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- I went to a Ukrainian evangelical church service today in Manhattan, and the back quarter of the church was full with members of a Korean church that the Ukrainians know. They all just showed up to be with them today.
- My dad died this week. A friend said to me that when you lose someone you love, the world feels less like home. My dad taught his kids to care deeply about the world, however hostile it is.
- Here is something good: Army officer Brad Lovin today with his translator Ali, who made it out of Kabul with his family.
- When I got a copy of the Ravi Zacharias investigation this afternoon, I simultaneously wanted to throw up and cry. So many awful details, especially given the treatment of @LoriAnneThomps2 in the public square since 2017.
- RZIM CEO Sarah Davis told employees this morning that RZIM "cannot and should not continue to operate as an organization in its present form, nor do we think we can simply rename." Will become a grant-making organization. Layoffs will begin tomorrow.
- Replying to @emlybelzOn 1/24 I'll start as a staff writer on the news team at @CTmagazine with @kateshellnutt and @danielsilliman. Excited to work with this high-octane crew. Send me story ideas / tips. We can stay in touch on here.
- I learned today: 17th century Puritans established a town in NJ and named it New Ark of the Covenant …..later shortened to Newark.
- Hi, World readers: sorry to share that I’m leaving the magazine. Been 13 years full of great adventures: Watching DC Washington sing. Meeting a big-hearted homicide detective in Baltimore. Instant coffee w NYC grandmasters at a chess championship. Thanks for coming along.
- RZIM Canada is shutting down as a result of the investigation into Ravi Zacharias. "We grieve for all the victims."
- The gathering for Tim Keller's service yesterday was a picture of the local church in NYC and the global church: staff from the Bowery Mission and Open Hands Legal Services. Queens pastors. Church planters from Europe and Africa. "small eva"
- The PCA, meeting as a denomination this week, has a robust system of governance. But it is often using that system of governance to ignore abuse survivors rather than listen to them.
- World’s latest cover story is by Larry Schweikart, a guy who called Jan 6 “Patriot Day” where politicians “fled like little children.” World had a reporter in danger inside the Capitol that day. Our staff prayed for her. It saddens me to see this direction.
- Obviously this account is a must-follow.Some perspective on the high and inaccessible perch chosen this morning by Flaco, the @centralparkzoo's escaped Eurasian Eagle-Owl, in Central Park's Hallett Sanctuary by the Pond.
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