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Thirty pieces from 2017 that Christianity Today’s editors hope you didn’t miss.
- Putting Pastors to Pasture in NigeriaChurches protest law requiring ministry leaders to resign after age 70 or 20 years.
- Thoughts on Discipleship from a Marine ConservationistWhy changing hearts is hard and how Christ overcomes that.
- When It Comes to Sexuality, ‘We Can’t Simply Review the Verses Anymore’Pastor Todd Wilson wants to recover the deeper theological and moral meaning of being made male and female.
- Hope for America’s Opioid Epidemic Is Grace in a SyringeWhy addiction ministry can include fellowship, the gospel and Narcan.
- On Christian campuses, unofficial flexibility is more common than extra benefits for new parents.
- Children naturally notice differences—and that is a good thing.
- God, Guns, and OilA Los Angeles church seeks the good of its neighborhood by confronting crime and environmental distress.
- Welcoming the stranger carries real risks. But hospitality is a New Testament expectation.
- Syria and Lebanon celebrate the historic ordination of a pair of faithful clergy.
- Keith and Kristyn Getty: Singing Isn’t Just for SundayWhy congregational worship is a feast we prepare all week long.
- The Invisible Heroes of the Persecuted ChurchThe case for Christians investing in the profession only 1 in 5 Americans trust.
- The Promise and Failure of AntibioticsHow the church can play a key role in better stewardship of antibacterial medicine and avert a global health crisis.
- Gene Yang: A Graphic Novelist Caught Between Two WorldsThe graphic novelist and MacArthur Grant recipient sees his life as an outsider as a blessing.
- Immigrants Are Reshaping American MissionsLatino congregations are launching their own international partnerships to support ministries and churches in their homelands.
- The Fight for Social Justice Starts WithinOnly a vibrant inner life can sustain the activist’s soul.
- The Bible’s Clarity Should Be Evident in Our LivesGod met me in the clarity of his Word—then came the hard part.
- How Churches Can Give Sanctuary and Still Support the Law800 congregations are working to protect undocumented immigrants. A leader with the New Sanctuary Movement says yours should be one of them.
- With the whole world watching, spiritual advisers face new challenges.
- How we found God’s mercy as we faced deep division we’d never experienced before.
- In the Image of Our ChoosingIn a new era of genetics, where’s the line between healing and enhancement?
- What to think of the 45,000 denominations that rose from the Reformation.
- Why Abortion Workers Need Our Forgiveness and SupportSome pro-life advocates view Planned Parenthood employees as killers complicit in crimes. Abby Johnson sees them as people worth rescuing.
- For women like me, children’s ministry can seem like low-level work for the least experienced.
- What Science Says About the Age of AccountabilityThe latest research on good, evil, and infants.
- We Need to Take Jesus’ Metaphor of Being Born Again More SeriouslyIt’s easy to ignore the painful, messy, universal experience of birth that Jesus was referring to.
- Let’s Save the University from Secular PrivilegeThe academy has lost its pluralism. Here’s how the church can help find it.

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