Christianity Today

April, 2019

Volume 63, Number 3

May, 2019
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Explore how missions organizations are changing the way they use data and how, conversely, that data is altering missions strategies. Far from merely counting converts, ministries today are analyzing the numbers for new insights into where to focus their efforts.

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Cover Story

Cover Story

Making Missions Count: How a Major Database Tracked Thailand’s Church-Planting Revival

A movement in Southeast Asia shows how real-time reporting is building Great Commission connections.

Features

How the Bible Project Is Using Video to Get People into Scripture Again

The Portland-based animation studio is seeing unprecedented success in an age of biblical illiteracy.

Theology of the Future

Bible scholars, theologians, and philosophers used to work together. N.T. Wright believes they need to do so again.

Is the Cross Enough?

The truth of the gospel requires telling the whole story.

Lessons from Evangelicalism’s PR Guru

Mark DeMoss represented Christian organizations through highs and lows, but we’re all tasked with representing Christ.

More from this Issue

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Responses to our January/February issue.

Our April Issue: Strength in Numbers

Can databases help us to see more like God sees?

Testimony

An MIT Professor Meets the Author of All Knowledge

I used to think religious people were ignoramuses. Then I got smart and took a chance on God.

News

News

Cinema of God: Muslims Memorialize Augustine

North African nations bring church father to the silver screen.

News

African American Students Respond to Southern Seminary’s Slavery Report

After an unflinching look at its racist past, SBC’s flagship seminary aims to honor a more diverse population on campus.

News

Gleanings: April 2019

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

Reviews

Transhumanism and the Cult of ‘Better, Faster, Stronger’

Why the church should resist technologies that aim to liberate us from ordinary, embodied life.

‘I Thought God Loved Only the Hutu’

Tutsi widows and orphans felt betrayed by the church during the genocide. Survivor Denise Uwimana made it her mission to help them heal.

Review

Allegiance to Scripture, Respect for Culture

Ajith Fernando lays out the essentials of cross-cultural discipleship.

New & Noteworthy Fiction

Chosen by Jaime Jo Wright, author of “The House on Foster Hill.”

5 Books That Provide Comfort Amid Terminal Illness

Chosen by Kathryn Butler, trauma surgeon and author of “Between Life and Death: A Gospel-Centered Guide to End-of-Life Medical Care.”

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Editorial

Religious Freedom Isn’t Just for Christians

A Supreme Court cruelty reveals how we can love our neighbors.

Who Says Social Media Can’t Make You Wise?

Done right, Facebook offers a chance for discernment and connection.

The Suffering Servant Only Makes Sense in the Context of the Trinity

The historical Christian doctrine helps us to see the goodness of God in Good Friday.

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