Christianity Today

September, 2018

Volume 62, Number 7

October, 2018
July/August, 2018

The cover story for our September 2018 issue examines how much, and for what reasons, Christians should fret over protecting their "privacy." From leaked emails to Facebook data to video surveillance ours is an age of paradoxical anxiety about concealing our personal information while, in many ways, we are more open with it than ever before.

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Cover Story

Cover Story

How US Law Defines Privacy

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

Cover Story

Fixing Our Privacy Settings

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

Features

Who Is My Digital Neighbor?

A Christian call to reject polarizing public discourse.

Job’s Most Beloved Verse May Be Different Than You Think

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

Do All Plants Go to Heaven?

Where there may be room for GMOs and other modern agriculture in the New Jerusalem.

Look Outside America for Fresh Insight on American Evangelicals

Melani McAlister’s new history aims to capture what the familiar political story leaves out.

The State of the Puerto Rican Church, One Year After Maria

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

More from this Issue

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Responses to our June issue.

Our September Issue: Nothing to Hide

How much power do secrets hold over the Christian?

News

Jackie Hill Perry: I Loved My Girlfriend—but God Loved Me More

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

News

News

Europe’s Big Mission Field: Nominals

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

News

Gleanings: September 2018

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

News

How Faith Changes Campus Sex Assaults

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

Reviews

Review

What Happens When You Love a Racist

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

Russell Moore: Family Life Isn’t Just Humbling—It’s Humiliating

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

Review

Madeleine L’Engle: ‘We Must Be Willing to Live by Paradox and Contradiction and Surprise’

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

New & Noteworthy Books

Compiled by Matt Reynolds.

5 Books for Getting a Handle on Populism

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.’

Views

Heaven Shines, But Who Cares?

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

Editorial

In the Beginning Is Silence

Why Christian activity should start with non-activity.

Have Mercy as God Has Mercy

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

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