Cover Story
Cover Story
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.
Views
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.