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May/June
2021
Volume 65, Number 4
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About This Issue
Ministries and other Christian workplaces increasingly require employees to sign non-disparagement agreements and “no gossip” policies. Our cover story this month explores how the Bible describes gossip and how our understanding of it does and doesn’t line up. When does clamping down on rumors help the church, and when does it create conditions for abuse?
Cover Story
Have we tamed the tongue too much? Christians work to recover a biblical understanding of harmful hearsay vs. healthy criticism.
Features
The LGBT movement was shaped by the animosity of populist evangelical rhetoric and tactics.
These biblical commands rightly remind us about the significance of our bodies.
The Bible teaches us, says Matthew Mullins, but its method of teaching always entails more than information and guidance.
A hard racial line divided conservative white and Black Protestants 100 years ago. It didn’t have to be that way.
One summer in a hippie commune soured me on the ’60s counterculture. God met me in my disillusionment.
Views
Instead of a big party, reopenings bring mixed emotions and a call to everyday faithfulness.
One lesson from COVID-19: Don’t underestimate the model set by worshiping alongside your kids.
With all our faith talk online, we're in danger of losing sight of the Lord himself.
Walking out is a way of responding to institutional toxicity.
Reviews
How believers can stay up on the day’s events without becoming prisoners of the moment.
The incoming Taylor University president outlines a faith-filled, Spirit-guided approach to life’s biggest transitions.
One writer’s attempt to relate Islam to her faith yields some lessons along with some stumbles.
Those distractions aren’t failures of focus, but opportunities to trust God with the deepest truths of our hearts.
News
A gift from the Gideons was a good luck charm—and then something more.
Workplace accommodation issues persist for Apostolic Pentecostals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Muslims, and others.
Responding with their feet, ministers bring ‘the simplest form of the gospel’ to tense situations.
Racial transformation is hard even when Christian schools are committed to change.
More from this Issue
Our sweeping censure of talking behind backs isn’t biblical.
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Christian business leaders advanced through the storm of 2020 with strength in numbers.
