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April
2022
Volume 66, Number 3
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About This Issue
A church is always more than the space in which it meets, but it is never less. Congregations cannot help being shaped by the places and neighborhoods they inhabit, as editor Kara Bettis explores this month in her reporting on the concept of “spiritual gentrification.” Churches are usually birthed around a shared vision for ministry. When the world around a church changes—gradually or suddenly—one of the most difficult challenges is discerning how, if at all, that shared vision should also change. PLUS: Rediscovering the Jewish roots of Easter.
Features
How churches survive “spiritual gentrification.”
Like a burial garment, life and death are interwoven.
Helping detained people was a shocking calling in the first century.
Faithful moms are adapting and developing new curricula as more families of color opt to educate at home.
I was on the verge of making a fortune, but I couldn’t stop dwelling on a conversation about religion.
Views
We need to renew our spiritual imaginations amid the spiritual-abuse reckoning.
Fifteen minutes of Bible reading may not turn every day around, but it’ll yield fruit at the right time.
They were developed in their historical contexts. What does that mean for today?
Discipled living demands not only right belief and right action but also right passions.
Speaking about dangers and errors is no failure of love for one’s own community.
Reviews
We’re quick to affirm the Resurrection, but we often miss its full meaning.
Why Christians slide into spiritual apathy, and how they can recover.
Chosen by Roseanna M. White, novelist and author of the Codebreakers series.
Michael Horton looks to restore the first principle of wisdom to its rightful place.
Chosen by Caryn Rivadeneira, author of “Saints of Feather and Fang: How the Animals We Love and Fear Connect Us to God.”
News
Amid memes targeting Americans, social media ministries witness to the truth.
Pastors weigh in on the critical formulation of the sacrament.
Experts project fraud will cost Christian ministries $170 billion in 2050.
News from Christians around the world.
Nine million children are supported by one-to-one funding, but a growing number of Christian groups say that approach is problematic.
More from this Issue
Congregations can’t entirely be separated from the ground they occupy.
