Cover Story
Cover Story
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.
More from this Issue
Our March Issue: When Church Is Not ‘Home’
In praise of uncomfortable worship.
Reply All
Responses to our December issue.
News
News
Christian Lawyers Fight COVID-19 Home Evictions
At legal aid clinics, attorneys ask “Who would Jesus represent in court?”
News
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
Excerpt
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.
Views
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.