Cover Story
Cover Story
Our Pulpits Are Full of Empty Preachers
Tens of thousands of pastors want to quit but haven’t. What has that done to them?
Features
The Scottish Complementarians Who Teach Women to Preach
A church planting network in Edinburgh’s poorest neighborhoods is flipping gender norms on their heads.
As for Me and My Household, We’ll Resist Mammon
Money promises autonomous abundance. But we need someplace where we cannot hide.
Excerpt
They Might Be Giants. (Or Angels. Or Superhuman Devils.)
Who, or what, are the Nephilim? We don’t know—and maybe we don’t need to.
Testimony
I Plant Secret House Churches Because I Was Saved into One
How an Iranian teenager found Christ and launched a mission to equip persecuted believers.
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Responses to our March issue.
Our May/June Issue: The Cold Wind of Ministry
Do we know what our pastors are up against?
News
News
Opposing Porn Isn’t as Lonely as It Once Was for UK Evangelicals
New efforts to protect children win secular allies.
News
Stained Glass Needs Saving
The oldest church windows in the Midwest and West are about to start falling apart.
News
Drug Addiction Was Bad in America. The Pandemic Made it Worse.
Recovery ministries try to help as people give up and give in.
News
Levites, Whores, and Demoniacs: Here’s How the New NRSV Has Changed
A look at five updates to the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
Reviews
Secularism Doesn’t Have to Be Bad
Understood rightly, it offers the best hope of keeping pluralistic societies peaceful and free.
Review
Let the Modern World Make You Uncomfortable
Jake Meador challenges the church to rethink its attachment to the American way of life.
Review
Don’t Ignore Race. Or Alienate White People.
Sociologist George Yancey outlines an alternative to colorblindness and antiracism.
New & Noteworthy Books
Compiled by Matt Reynolds.
Excerpt
Is There a Tiny Puritan Living in Your Head? Tell Him to Get Lost.
God has set a feast for us in the world, and we shouldn’t feel guilty about savoring it.
Views
When Doubters Declare the Glory of God
Songs from outside the church can help us worship within it.
Seven Trials, Two Dangers, and One Underappreciated Book
Church leaders care too much about numbers and too little about Numbers.
Tribalism’s Awful Antidote
We’re made to have a herd. Made to transcend it, too.