The first issue of “Global Briefing” has been released by our MCC UN Office. Featuring voices from across the world and published every two months, this is a resource at the intersection of critical global challenges and the global church. This first issue’s special focus (including articles by leaders from Indonesia and Lebanon) concerns what Pope Francis in his new encyclical calls “a better kind of politics.” From pandemic challenges to election upheaval in the U.S., the topic is timely. Please take a look and consider subscribing.

In this issue of Global Briefing:

• Divided politics and the politics of Jesus 
• From symptoms to root causes, from interests to ethics: a call to the church 
• Recommended reading: vaccine equality, winning the global disinformation war, and being “neighbors without borders”
• Beethoven and peace