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Image: Illustration and Lettering by Chidy WayneOur picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.
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Shannon Harris Wasn’t Content with Being a Purity Culture StagehandHer new memoir brings her voice into the story of "I Kissed Dating Goodbye." It also brings in an entirely different gospel.
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The Universe Is Not a Horror ShowWe live in a world haunted by sin and suffering. But it’s also one that points us to a glory beyond imagining.
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Rosaria Butterfield Issues Five Battle Cries for the Church MilitantThere is much to admire in her views on church and community, but also much to find troubling in her new polemic.
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How Japanese American Pastors Prepared Their Flocks For InternmentSermons preached the Sunday before they were sent off exhorted suffering Christians to find their hope in Jesus and to continue to gather together.
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Mitt Romney Chose Truth Over Tribe. We Should Too.Character and competency matter all the time, whether that’s in public office or the church.
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Jesus Paid It All. There’s Still So Much We Owe.Why the call to good works goes hand in hand with the free gift of grace.
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Esau McCaulley: The Streets Sent Me to the PulpitBut then my path to preaching took an unexpected turn.
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How to Talk to a Christian-Curious AgnosticA new breed of secular seeker is replacing the New Atheists. But how can we reach them?
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The Gospel Is Greater Than Its Greatest ProclaimersThat fact should bring humility to our evangelism, even as it spurs us to keep sharing the Good News.
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In a World of Speed and Power, Cormac McCarthy Wasn’t Afraid of DepthThe late novelist’s final books are ambitious portraits of the Western world and the human soul.
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It’s Eden SomewhereThe late Jimmy Buffett’s songs and the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien both long for a home just beyond reach.
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Died: ‘Jesus Calling’ Devotional Author Sarah YoungThe missionary wife’s “listening prayers” comforted and inspired millions.españolPortuguêsFrançais日本語
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When American Evangelicals Needed a Reputational Boost, They Turned to South Korean EvangelicalsIn the second half of the 20th century, each group used the other as a ticket to legitimacy at home and abroad.
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Gen X Dropouts Widen the Generational Divide among Singapore ChristiansInterviews with 63 churches reveal an urgent need for greater mutuality in relationships.
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Put Off Your Old Self-MakingAn interview with author Tara Isabella Burton on the history of self-creation—and how the habit usurps our need for God.
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Repairing the Evangelical House Means Renewing the Evangelical ImaginationIf our movement is ailing, argues Karen Swallow Prior, it’s because we’ve overlooked the importance of certain stories, symbols, and metaphors.
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Since When Did Pleasing God Become an Unattainable Ideal?His servants aren’t meant to feel like spiritual failures.
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Western Theologians Need Non-Western Theologians—and Vice VersaThe particularities of people groups can aid the work of understanding and proclaiming the gospel.españolFrançais
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Some of My Social Justice Allies Are Terrifying, and I Value Them for It“Sensitive” types like me won’t always mesh with more intimidating activists. But we need each other to thrive.
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New & Noteworthy BooksChosen by Matt Reynolds.
News & Reporting
- Make American Politics Hopeful AgainHow the call to “carry one another’s burdens” breaks down partisan stalemates.
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- 5 Books That Help Us Find Rest in JesusChosen by Sarah J. Hauser, author of “All Who Are Weary: Finding True Rest by Letting Go of the Burdens You Were Never Meant to Carry.”
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