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January/February
2022
Volume 66, Number 1
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About This Issue
For all the alarms sounded today over declining reading habits, and for all the fears that social-media shallowness has crowded out serious thinking, people still make a big deal of books. We buy them and read them. We discuss and debate them. And we still sense that the deepest, most enduring truths about God and man, about history and contemporary life, are found not on Twitter threads but on the printed page. This is one reason we’re dedicating the bulk of this issue not only to our annual Book Awards but also to books themselves, in the form of excepts from awards finalists (and several winners) that shine a light on some of the finest Christian thinking happening today.
Cover Story
Our picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.
Features
How an old prayer and a newborn baby changed my perspective on angels.
How urban apologetics contends against the distortions promoted by “Black Conscious” movements.
The evangelical leader invested resources in Christian leaders around the world. Now those leaders are blessing the Western church.
No other created object tells us more about the real God.
Western missionaries championed racial equality abroad while struggling with it in their own ranks.
For 2,000 years, church leaders held to the same Trinitarian doctrine. How did we lose our way?
As we search for meaning in the “blessings,” we must let them transform us.
“Handing Down the Faith” shows a vast majority of Americans don’t choose their religious beliefs. They inherit them.
In “Discovering God Through the Arts,” Terry Glaspey says Christians haven’t always been suspicious of creative expression.
A new biography shows the Sunday school teacher played a key role in the movement, and the directions its leaders took.
Everything is not a biblical issue—but who decides?
Percy Shelley’s 19th-century attacks on marriage, monogamy, and Christianity foreshadowed progressive attitudes today.
How a violent Northern Ireland loyalist became a pastor and an evangelist.
Reviews
Paul wasn’t shy about seeking God’s approval of his work. Elliot Clark wants us to recover that sense of motivation.
Our overburdened lives are often a problem of theology, not time management.
News
A belief that people can change bolsters their movement.
The trend toward secular memorials reverses for the first time in a decade.
Will fixing inaccurate representation encourage more minorities to “go into all the world”?
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