Christianity Today

March, 2021

Volume 65, Number 2

April, 2021
January/February, 2021

This month’s issue features a collection of stories exploring how far America’s multiethnic church movement has come and how far it has yet to go. Ohio State University sociologist Korie Little Edwards, arguably today’s preeminent researcher of multiracial congregations, writes in a personal essay about the African American struggle to find “oneness” in diverse churches. While it takes different shapes, that struggle is shared by Christians in other ethnic communities, and it dates back to the early Corinthian church.

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Why the Children of Immigrants Are Returning to Their Religious Roots

Many second- and third-generation Americans leave the ethnic congregations of their parents for white-led churches, only to come back.

Cover Story

The Multiethnic Church Movement Hasn’t Lived up to Its Promise

Multiracial churches have not been good news for everyone. What can we do about it?

Cover Story

Paul’s Letter to a Prejudiced Church

How the apostle’s instructions on the Lord’s Supper speak to multiethnic congregations today.

Features

Testimony

What the Heavens Declared to a Young Astronomer

How I learned that the same God who numbered the stars knew and loved me personally.

When Violent Nationalism Backfired for God’s People

Jesus saw the disastrous end of faith-fueled zealotry and warned against it.

Replanting Can Work. A Church Just Has to Die and Rise Again.

How one East Tennessee congregation took a leap of faith and witnessed a resurrection.

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Responses to our December issue.

News

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Christian Lawyers Fight COVID-19 Home Evictions

At legal aid clinics, attorneys ask “Who would Jesus represent in court?”

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A World Vision Employee Is Still Awaiting Fair Trial in Israel

The charges against him don’t make sense. And his day in court has been delayed again and again.

News

Indian Government Regulation Squeezes Christian Charities

Nonprofit licenses revoked, leaving millions without help.

News

How Big and Small Nashville Churches Feed Hungry Families

New study shows food pantries serve more than their immediate neighbors.

Reviews

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Christian Parents: You Don’t Have to Protect Your Children from Divergent Opinions

If what we teach them is true, it will stand up to scrutiny.

Ordinary Life Is Crammed with Heaven

How our senses can point the way to God’s presence.

Review

Evangelical Thinking on the Trinity Is Often Remarkably Revisionist

Theologian Matthew Barrett diagnoses our drift away from an orthodox understanding of Father, Son, and Spirit.

Review

The Problem with À La Carte Politics

Christians won’t overcome partisanship just by resolving to order from each side’s policy menu.

New & Noteworthy Books

Compiled by Matt Reynolds.

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Editorial

The Premature Victory of a Vacant Cross

This Lent presses us to confront the sins of supremacy, celebrity, and other abuses of grace.

Pray to God for Protection. Then Praise Him for Your Mask.

The concept of competitive agency pits God’s actions against our own. But they go hand in hand.

Did a Prophet Speak to You?

Learning to discern entails humbly attuning our ears and softening our hearts.

Scriptural Meditation Promises Something Better than Zen

Christians don’t need mysticism or quiet emptiness for the illumination that comes through repetition.

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