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December 22, 2023
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Mark Sappenfield
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Thanks for ending your week – and your year – with us. The Monitor will be on holiday recess through Jan. 1, but we’ll be keeping in touch and stoking the hearth fire for you.

We’ll highlight our wonderful new holiday animation on Christmas Day. That’s a gift from essayist Murr Brewster and Jules Struck that’s become an annual tradition. After that, watch for daily specials that feature some of our best stories of 2023, grouped around themes including community and peace. Finally, on New Year’s Day, we’ll send you our favorite photos of 2023 collection, curated with care and love.

See you in 2024!


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Today’s stories

And why we wrote them

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Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.

A deeper look

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Covering the inventive Climate Generation

The Young Hands on Earth’s Thermostat

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Jules Struck

The Monitor's View

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Music students from Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts play the bandura at an underground shopping mall in Kyiv, Ukraine, in July.

A Christian Science Perspective

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Sparkling Christmas lights frame an illuminated Parthenon on a dark night in Athens, Greece, Dec. 20, 2023.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Jacob Turcotte and Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today, this week, and this year. We hope you enjoy our special projects next week and have a wonderful holiday season. We will continue keep our homepage updated with wire service content on any news events. The Christian Science Monitor Daily will return on Tuesday, Jan. 2. 

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