Cover Story
Cover Story
Why Can’t Men Be Friends?
Men and women alike increasingly say they are lonely. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Features
I Didn’t Marry My Best Friend
Couples need more than just each other.
Table Manners: Why We Take Communion Every Week
It’s a meal that often divides us. It needn’t be that way.
Meet the New Kingdom Investors
A new model of Christian stewardship is scalable, global, and can compete with China. It will just cost you $100,000 to join the cause.
Capitalism and the Common Good
How to gear the free market so that people floursh.
The Wrong Kind of Christian
I thought a winsome faith would win Christians a place at Vanderbilt’s table. I was wrong.
More from this Issue
Testimony
A Sobering Mercy
The second time I surrendered to Christ, I was on a dirt road with no memory of how I had arrived there.
Reply All
Readers respond to the June issue via letters, tweets, and blogs.
The Ones I Love
Who knew that dinner out with friends could be so misleading?
News
News
Should Satan Be Part of Evangelism and Early Discipleship?
(UPDATED) The Devil is too distracting at baptisms, major denomination decides.
News
Can You See Too Much Jesus in the Bible?
Why one seminary thinks so and is sending an Old Testament scholar into early retirement.
News
Gleanings: September 2014
Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our September issue).
Receiving the Little Children
Along the Mexican border, U.S. churches care for undocumented children.
News
Obama’s Contract Killer
Why Christian organizations were concerned about Obama’s executive order—even though so few were directly affected.
Reviews
The Rapture Keeps Coming Back
Why are movies about the last days still so popular?
My Top 5 Books for Political Leaders
Joshua Dubois, president Obama’s former spiritual advisor, recommends readings for those in positions of authority.
Working For Justice Will Make You Uncomfortable
Eugene Cho wonders whether we’re willing to go beyond paying lip service to social change.
Review
Slow and Steady Builds the Church
Slick programs and efficient business models are no substitute for the patient work of discipleship. A review of John Pattison and C. Christopher Smith’s ‘Slow Church.’
New & Noteworthy Books
Compiled by Matt Reynolds
Views
Three Views: Should Christians Resist Greater Government Surveillance?
In the era of massive data collection, Uncle Sam snoops on a grand scale.
It’s All Gift
As it turns out, your success probably has little to do with you.
The Midlife Church Crisis
In Christ, there is neither empty nester nor new mom.
