Christgiving
In April, Jamie Powell walked into a hospital room in Changsha, China, with her eldest son and his fiancée. Laying on the hospital bed was her husband, John Sanqiang Cao, gaunt and fighting late-stage prostate cancer that had spread to his spine. The couple had not seen each othe...
At Halton Hideaway, you won’t see the tall skyscrapers and shining skyline for which Singapore is best known. Instead, the white two-story colonial house is tucked behind lush banyan and mangosteen trees, just a short walk from the ocean. Kingfishers and hornbills call out to vis...
This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Jennifer Anderson, Feed Them Well: A Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident Eaters for Life (Flatiron Books, 2026) The process of teaching kids what to eat—and how—can force us to address our own sometimes-dysfunctio...
Eleven minutes before the start of lunch service at Salem Lutheran Church Dining Hall, a woman inside the screened-in cafeteria orders a girl to make sure all six tables get a final scrubbing. “Get off your phone,” the woman says. “We are a church, so hospitality is top of the li...
One summer morning, Win Kaari, a clinician at Chogoria Hospital in rural Kenya, grabbed a sip of tea between seeing patients who were lined up on outdoor benches. She thanked a friend for buying her chapati bread to go with her tea—the friend used to work with Kaari caring for HI...
When Darryl Strawberry visited the Louisiana State Penitentiary hospital ward and death row in 2024, he sat on the edge of one frail prisoner’s bed and prayed. When he was finished, the former Major League Baseball player embraced the man and pulled his blankets up over his bony ...
In an art museum in the beautiful Tuscan city of Siena hangs a 500-year-old oil painting that captures nearly everything that is wrong with our view of God. It was painted in 1513 by the Renaissance artist Domenico Beccafumi as an altarpiece for a hospital chapel and entitled the...
