January (Web-only) 2019
![Move Over, Sex and Drugs. Ease Is the New Vice. Move Over, Sex and Drugs. Ease Is the New Vice.](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/89362.jpg?h=124&w=220)
Move Over, Sex and Drugs. Ease Is the New Vice.
Do modern amenities make it tough for us to embody God’s love?
![The Bible’s Best Description of Salvation Is a Phrase We Rarely Use The Bible’s Best Description of Salvation Is a Phrase We Rarely Use](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/87061.jpg?h=123&w=220)
The Bible’s Best Description of Salvation Is a Phrase We Rarely Use
How Paul points the way to a fresh way of seeing faith.
![Keeping Satan’s Fingerprints Off of Your Marriage Keeping Satan’s Fingerprints Off of Your Marriage](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85997.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Keeping Satan’s Fingerprints Off of Your Marriage
Why husbands and wives need to suit up for spiritual war.
![A Time for War and a Time for Peace A Time for War and a Time for Peace](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85992.jpg?h=123&w=220)
A Time for War and a Time for Peace
Evangelical attitudes on foreign policy are more complicated than the warmonger stereotype suggests.
![Margaret Feinberg: Scripture Is My Food for Thought Margaret Feinberg: Scripture Is My Food for Thought](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85990.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Margaret Feinberg: Scripture Is My Food for Thought
A conversation with the author of ‘Taste and See: Discovering God among Butchers, Bakers, and Fresh Food Makers.’
![For Christian Women, Persecution Looks Like Rape For Christian Women, Persecution Looks Like Rape](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85972.jpg?h=123&w=220)
For Christian Women, Persecution Looks Like Rape
Around the globe, female followers of the faith suffer sexual violence, forced marriage, forced abortions, travel bans, and trafficking.
![Hillsong’s Global Appeal, Explained by Sociologists Hillsong’s Global Appeal, Explained by Sociologists](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85973.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Hillsong’s Global Appeal, Explained by Sociologists
Australian worship movement flourishes in both post-communist Budapest and post-church Seattle because it confronts the historical establishment.
![Martin Luther King Jr.: Exemplar of Hope Martin Luther King Jr.: Exemplar of Hope](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85953.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Martin Luther King Jr.: Exemplar of Hope
The Civil Rights leader’s life and legacy embodies the revolutionary ethic of Jesus Christ.
![Can We Handle the Truth About Racism and the Church? Can We Handle the Truth About Racism and the Church?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85939.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Can We Handle the Truth About Racism and the Church?
Before racial reconciliation can happen, says Jemar Tisby, American believers need to reckon honestly with the sins of the past.
![Your Plan B Is Still God’s Plan A Your Plan B Is Still God’s Plan A](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85932.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Your Plan B Is Still God’s Plan A
What a failed church plant taught me about divine purpose and provision.
![What Humans Have That Machines Don’t What Humans Have That Machines Don’t](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85913.jpg?h=123&w=220)
What Humans Have That Machines Don’t
How a theology of personhood cuts against the mechanical metaphors we use to describe ourselves.
![Running from the Light—and the Snakes Running from the Light—and the Snakes](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85881.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Running from the Light—and the Snakes
An opera heroine’s conflict with her faith and family has dangerously high stakes.
![Spiritual Revolutionaries in an Age of Despair Spiritual Revolutionaries in an Age of Despair](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85895.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Spiritual Revolutionaries in an Age of Despair
These practices of Anna and Simeon kept them faithful in a time of seeming hopelessness.
![When Great Writers Wrestle with Faith When Great Writers Wrestle with Faith](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85847.jpg?h=123&w=220)
When Great Writers Wrestle with Faith
Why have so many modern novelists and poets chased after (and fled from) God?
![Curiosity Propels My Toddler to Learn. Will Computers Ever Compare? Curiosity Propels My Toddler to Learn. Will Computers Ever Compare?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85836.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Curiosity Propels My Toddler to Learn. Will Computers Ever Compare?
How our relationship to God makes us unique from our robot imitators.
![CT Women’s Top 10 Articles of 2018 CT Women’s Top 10 Articles of 2018](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85835.jpg?h=123&w=220)
CT Women’s Top 10 Articles of 2018
Why being ‘spiritual’ is never enough, how Kate Bowler experienced Christ in her cancer, and 10 lessons from same-sex abuse inside the church.
![Our 15 Most-Read Book Reviews of 2018 Our 15 Most-Read Book Reviews of 2018](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85812.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Our 15 Most-Read Book Reviews of 2018
Mr. Rogers’s dangerous side, what we lose when hymnbooks disappear, and quitting the tug-of-war over Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s legacy.
![Why Song of Solomon Is Key to the Great Commission Why Song of Solomon Is Key to the Great Commission](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85828.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Why Song of Solomon Is Key to the Great Commission
Working effectively for Christ requires intimacy with him.
![How to Defend the Gospels with Confidence How to Defend the Gospels with Confidence](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85811.jpg?h=123&w=220)
How to Defend the Gospels with Confidence
Questions about their reliability deserve better than sheepish mumbling.
![Ten Theses on Creation and Evolution That (Most) Evangelicals Can Support Ten Theses on Creation and Evolution That (Most) Evangelicals Can Support](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85795.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Ten Theses on Creation and Evolution That (Most) Evangelicals Can Support
We won’t achieve perfect unanimity on every contested topic.
![Unraveling the Chicken-and-Egg Puzzle Behind the ‘God Gap’ in Voting Unraveling the Chicken-and-Egg Puzzle Behind the ‘God Gap’ in Voting](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85797.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Unraveling the Chicken-and-Egg Puzzle Behind the ‘God Gap’ in Voting
Do people choose their politics on the basis of their religion, or is it the other way around?
![Prison Was My First Pulpit Prison Was My First Pulpit](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/85796.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Prison Was My First Pulpit
Linda Barkman was incarcerated after the man she lived with murdered her toddler. But she turned hardship into ministry.