Christianity Today

May/June, 2022

Volume 66, Number 4

Globe Issue
April, 2022

This issue we give special attention to the thousands of US pastors who faithfully labor unseen and who wonder how much longer they can hold themselves together. COVID-19 put unique strains on clergy—a group that was already seeing rising rates of burnout—and the effects will linger long after most Americans have put their masks away. In our cover story, Kyle Rohane argues that pastors are less likely than other workers to join the Big Quit. It sounds like good news and is, in ways. But in other ways, it’s a warning.

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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

Gleanings: May 2022

News from Christians around the world.

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.

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