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Joyful squeals reached an ear-shattering pitch as Ukrainian children ran across the common room of the Piemont Hotel in Poland. They finally had space to play. Reprimands from adults to quiet down went understandably unheard.

The children who live in this suburban hotel, about 6 miles outside of the city of Łódź, spent hours waiting in lines, in cars and on foot, to cross into Poland from their war-torn homeland.

Many came with mothers, aunts and grandmothers as border guards detained their fathers to help with Ukraine’s war efforts.

Audrey Jackson reports from Pabianice, Poland.

“We sure could use a little good news today,” Anne Murray sang in a No. 1 country hit in 1983.

Nearly four decades later, negative headlines abound: Mass shootings. The war in Ukraine. Church closings.

How about some good news?

At the request of Bobby Ross Jr., fellow Christians shard some inspiring stories.

“Are you listening?”

The late V.E. Howard was known for asking that question on the “International Gospel Hour” radio program, an evangelism broadcast associated with Churches of Christ dating back to 1934. 

For 88 years the question has been posed to listeners such as Billy Boyd. 

Gabriel Grant Huff updates readers on the longtime radio ministry.

“You’re not allowed to cry.”

That’s what I kept telling myself as people fell on their hands and knees, weeping.

Never had I seen so much agony in one place.

The Christian Chronicle sent associate editor Audrey Jackson and me to report on the shooting that killed 19 elementary children and two teachers in South Texas. It was my first in-person tragedy coverage.

Intern Gabriel Huff Grant reflects on his experience in Uvalde.

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