Christianity Today

May, 2019

Volume 63, Number 4

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The May 2019 issue highlights an often-overlooked group in US border communities: binational students. Largely in the country legally, high school and college students in cities like El Paso, Texas, nonetheless feel the amplified tensions surrounding the immigration debate. They often face difficult choices as they try to meet the expectations of two cultures at once, Mexican and American.

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Young Life at the Border

How youth ministries are reaching teens torn between Mexico and the US.

Features

With All Your Heart, Soul, Wi-Fi, and Websites

Stephen Lowe offers a biblical defense of online spiritual formation.

Small Groups Anonymous

Why the best church small groups might take their cues from the Twelve Steps.

Worship God at All Times. If Necessary, Use Music.

It turns out the Bible’s idea of worship is mostly about posture, not music or praise.

We Set Off to Reach a Remote Tribe in the Amazon. Turns Out, They Were Waiting for Us.

As young Brazilian missionaries, we learned to depend on God and the people we journeyed to reach.

More from this Issue

Introducing CT’s New President

Unbeknownst to me, I began recruiting my successor six years ago.

Reply All

Responses to our March issue.

Testimony

I Marked People for Death. Jesus Marked Me for Life.

How a gang leader found salvation in prison.

News

News

Gleanings: May 2019

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

News

Why Missions Experts Are Redefining ‘Unreached People Groups’

Fewer than 1 percent of missionaries end up among the world’s least-Christian peoples. New categories aim to highlight the areas most desperate for the gospel.

News

How Palestine Divides Messianic Jews

The complexity of the situation even presents a challenge to Jewish Christian unity.

Reviews

Lessons on Christian Rhetoric from Five of its Greatest Practitioners

If the enemies of truth employ the arts of persuasion, then lovers of truth have no choice but to employ them more effectively.

Review

The Most Effective Response to Poverty? Worshipping the True God

Even more than better systems and better policies, we need better theology.

Review

Fitness Trackers, Dating Apps, and Other Ladders to Nowhere

Why secular substitutes for religion will always leave us exhausted and unhappy.

New & Noteworthy Books

Compiled by Matt Reynolds.

Excerpt

Why I Always Pray at the End of the Day

We didn’t accomplish everything we should have. God reminds us we didn’t need to.

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Editorial

Repenting of Identity Politics

New Zealand revealed the tragic logical end of evils like Christian Nationalism.

Of Truth-Telling and Bridge-Building

How Jesus modeled relationships of surprising frankness and trust.

Bringing a Tent Peg to a Sword Fight

Why God sends his people into battle armed with the tools of everyday life.

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