Ashley Hales
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Editorial Director @ct_mag | PhD, author, Willowbrae Institute https://t.co/V33j513OWu / Opinions and views stated are my own, not necessarily CT's.
San Luis Obispo, CA
Joined January 2009
Longtime followers know I am deeply apolitical. American politics is largely an entertainment category designed to provoke response. Public attention gives public power. But today, our president posted a video portraying two people, made in God’s image, as apes. 🪡🧵
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The Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.
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The lawsuits against Meta hinge on a key question: is social media addictive, and did Meta know it? My team has aggregated 31 studies done by Meta itself. Several show that they knew it, they studied the vulnerabilities of teen brains, yet they continued to maximize for
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Join @jenniferwilkin and @drmoore on February 13 at 12 p.m. CST for a livestream exploring the biblical illiteracy crisis, intentional engagement with Scripture, and how to cultivate deeper, sustainable Bible study habits. Members can register at https://t.co/sgfR2eAMkR.
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Every time I see data like this, I get angrier and angrier. Educators were hoodwinked by the ed-tech industry, and the casualty of that experiment has been a generation of children who are cognitively impaired because we brought screens into schools.
El New York Times recupera evidencias sobre aprendizaje: leer en papel mejora la comprensión, y tomar apuntes a mano aumenta la probabilidad de sacar sobresaliente hasta un 58%. No es nostalgia: es neurociencia aplicada al aula. Menos pantalla ≠ más aprendizaje
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✨The January/February issue is here! ✨ With writing from @jenniferwilkin, @masayett, @lukegeraty, @MichaelRWear, @hendrixsonart, @bonniekristian, @cbradedwards, @AndyROlsen, @drmoore, @MichaelHorton_, @KSPrior, @aahales, @karabettis, and others. https://t.co/tSqnT0Bmft
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January/February 2026 from Christianity Today's archive - Volume 70, Issue Number 1.
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“Where noise and distraction are the rule and stillness the exception, sustained silence can be transformative—provoking questions that demand answers and prompt a reckoning with our very existence within the larger expanse of time and space.” https://t.co/9vCCGWRav1
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A monastery on Patmos builds silence in a world of noise
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These days, reading the printed page is a respite from the onslaught of the online news cycle and our social media streams. We ranked ten of our best reporting, ideas, and theology pieces in print in 2025: https://t.co/RgnVeGQSAa
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Our best reporting, ideas, and theology pieces in print in 2025.
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Christmas looks different in the “sending season” of parenthood. The change, “reminds me that I am human and dependent on a good God. It reminds me that it is God, not I, who writes my children’s stories,” writes @aahales. https://t.co/d5kMXKQJLs
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Christmastime comes with its own losses and longings. God understands them.
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"I’m deeply conscious of a sort of dance mothers must do with sons—remaining a soft place to land but acknowledging that, as they grow, they are more completely entering the company of men....But I already miss him." My latest at CT:
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Christmastime comes with its own losses and longings. God understands them.
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This Christmas is the last one with all 4 of our kids under our roof in a full-time way. It brings both sadness and joy. Please share with anyone with a bit of a blue tinge to their Christmas. My latest at CT:
“As a mother, the loss of this family as we’ve known it for the last 18 years is its own sort of wound,” writes @aahales. “How do I mark a ‘last’ with both joy for his future and sadness that the past is gone?” https://t.co/d5kMXKQJLs
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This. (And if you read the Gospels, you’ll find Jesus does it more than once every five minutes.)
Pastors: You know how when you go to the grocery store you need bags to get the food home? You congregation similarly needs stories & metaphors to bag up what you're teaching. If you don't give them one *at least* every 5 mins, they will tune out & forget your words.
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What choices are digital natives making about technology -- and how does it impact their faith and spiritual lives? My latest at @CTmagazine:
Flip phones, digital cameras, and vinyl records. Some Gen Zers are showing interest in “more humane” forms of technology that allow for a renewed focus on God and others. https://t.co/TGAXLoDYP1
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What do digital natives do when it comes to reclaiming their attention? My latest at @CTmagazine:
Flip phones, digital cameras, and vinyl records. Some Gen Zers are showing interest in “more humane” forms of technology that allow for a renewed focus on God and others. https://t.co/TGAXLoDYP1
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My latest for CT. I'm grateful for the pastors and young people who have so intentionally made conscious choices for technology to serve as a tool rather than as a all-abiding presence.
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Some young Christians embrace lower-tech options.
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It’s easy to get caught up in the cynical age we’re in. @NicholasMcD says staying in “conversation with dead Christians … can help you see beyond the moment.” https://t.co/kHBY38QhE0
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A conversation with pastor and author, Nicholas McDonald, about Christian witness in a cynical age.
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The Christianity Today Board of Directors has unanimously elected Dr. Nicole Massie Martin as its next President and CEO. Read more: https://t.co/Pdm56cA8Xf
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The last thing humanity needs is more deep relationships with AIs, even if the AIs are simulating people we loved before they died. This is sick, and this is our lonely future unless we start saying no to it now.
I think this is genuinely evil.
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