September
2023
Volume 67, Number 6
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About This Issue
Our cover story this month explores the question, Does it matter if Christians declare their personal pronouns or use those given by others? Also in this issue: the changing face of atheism, reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Dream,” how churches in Appalachia are responding to the opioids crisis, and a closer look at repentance in the Gospel of Luke.
Cover Story
Features
![A Russian Pastor Spoke Out Against Putin’s Invasion. It Cost Him His Church. A Russian Pastor Spoke Out Against Putin’s Invasion. It Cost Him His Church.](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/135753.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Mikhail Manzurin prayed for Ukraine during church services and eventually fled to the United States.
Sophia Lee
![With Eyes to See Addiction, Appalachian Churches Respond to the Opioids Crisis With Eyes to See Addiction, Appalachian Churches Respond to the Opioids Crisis](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/135759.jpg?h=123&w=220)
As the toll of overdoses continue to rise, congregations provide recovery, medical care, and redemption.
S. J. Dahlman
![New Atheism Is Dead. What’s the New New Atheism? New Atheism Is Dead. What’s the New New Atheism?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/135751.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Far fewer British people agree with vitriolic assertions about religion. Still, disbelief in God is on the rise in both the UK and the US.
Stefani McDade
Views
Reviews
![Repairing the Evangelical House Means Renewing the Evangelical Imagination Repairing the Evangelical House Means Renewing the Evangelical Imagination](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/135746.jpg?h=123&w=220)
If our movement is ailing, argues Karen Swallow Prior, it’s because we’ve overlooked the importance of certain stories, symbols, and metaphors.
Carolyn Weber
![Western Theologians Need Non-Western Theologians—and Vice Versa Western Theologians Need Non-Western Theologians—and Vice Versa](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/135796.jpg?h=123&w=220)
The particularities of people groups can aid the work of understanding and proclaiming the gospel.
Interview by J. Nelson Jennings
News
![A Washington Church Grows Great Commission Wheat A Washington Church Grows Great Commission Wheat](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/135747.jpg?h=123&w=220)
For decades, the small, rural congregation has turned a grain harvest into international ministry funding.
Loren Ward
![Christians Could Change Adoption Laws in the Middle East. Will They? Christians Could Change Adoption Laws in the Middle East. Will They?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/135780.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Some have been reticent to reform, despite the needs of children and would-be parents.
Jayson Casper