January (Web-only) 2019

Move Over, Sex and Drugs. Ease Is the New Vice.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
Working effectively for Christ requires intimacy with him.
How to Defend the Gospels with Confidence
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
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
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
Linda Barkman was incarcerated after the man she lived with murdered her toddler. But she turned hardship into ministry.

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A Theologian’s Vision of ‘Peasant’ Politics Is Surprisingly Lordly in Scope
A Theologian’s Vision of ‘Peasant’ Politics Is Surprisingly Lordly in Scope
Ephraim Radner’s “narrow” concern for protecting the mundane goods of earthly life isn’t so narrow after all.

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