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March
2022
Volume 66, Number 2
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About This Issue
As an editor, I usually prefer precise words to ambiguous ones like “deconstruction.” But at CT, I’m surrounded by good words that require constant clarification and differentiation, “evangelical” chief among them. In fact, frustration with the increasing ambiguity of “evangelical” is a common starting point for many who now describe themselves as deconstructing. In this month’s cover story, theologian Kirsten Sanders offers a helpful definition of deconstruction: “the struggle to correct or deepen naive belief.” Even more helpfully, she rightly sees that struggle as akin to our theological work of knowing and loving God more deeply. As our cover asks this month, aren't you deconstructing, too? -Ted Olsen, executive editor
Cover Story
What’s behind the exvangelical trend isn’t new. But it sheds new light on theology.
Features
Ministry efforts aim to induce change and offer care for the growing number of new moms separated from their babies due to incarceration.
Why are boomers and Gen X dropping out of church at higher rates than younger Christians?
After churches change hands in Nagorno-Karabakh, can Armenian and Azeri Christians reconcile faster than their governments?
My books and courses brought fame and fortune. Now I’m begging people to ignore what I taught.
Views
Dying is a fact of life. It’s also the enemy we’re called to resist.
When everything seems fake, Jesus says, “Put your hand in my side.”
The Broadway hit serves as a parable of the post-Christian West.
Reviews
For all that separated America and Europe in the 1950s, their experience of the crusade leader was remarkably similar.
Reports of divine encounters aren’t always legitimate, but they shouldn’t be lightly dismissed.
The architect of a foiled 19th-century slave revolt justified violence in terms he hoped Americans would understand.
We’re called not only to attend them, but also to throw them ourselves.
News
But for now, the gospel music algorithm still needs human help.
The answer may depend on crisis pregnancy centers.
News from Christians around the world.
The doctrines separating them are clear. The legal process of disentanglement, less so.
These white evangelicals want to make the former capital of the Confederacy into the capital of racial reconciliation.
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