Responses to our June issue.

Church planting is evangelistically effective only to the degree that it is evangelistically focused from the beginning.

He was a budding white nationalist leader. His friends thought he could be something different.

The Bible's blueprint for paradise lowers the awe-inspiring to the everyday.

Why Christian activity should start with non-activity.

The hurricane that destroyed the island has completely shaken its approach to ministry.

A Christian call to reject polarizing public discourse.

Mercy is what holiness looks like in the lives of God's children.

Why Christians should worry less about protecting their information and think more about giving it away.

How much power do secrets hold over the Christian?

How an epiphany about the wages of my sin opened the door for his cleansing light.

How do you persuade someone who already thinks they’re a Christian to become one?

A new “spiritual biography” of the author of A Wrinkle in Time celebrates her refusal to be pigeonholed.

Job 13:15 is more anguished—and encouraging—in its original wording.

Legal definitions of privacy focus on these three key areas of protection.

Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our September issue).

Cultures of restraint fare better than cultures of mere consent, research shows.

But our failures as parents and spouses, as sons and daughters, ultimately point the way to something better.

Chosen by Bruce Riley Ashford, provost and professor of theology and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and author of 'Letters to An American Christian.'