Cover Story
Cover Story
How Black-Owned Businesses Bless Atlanta
Christian entrepreneurs promote a new economic narrative in a city plagued by wealth gaps.
Cover Story
Racial Reconciliation Is Still a Dream for Atlanta Christians
But church leaders think it’s worth the work to address longstanding divides.
Cover Story
The Black Church Is Atlanta’s Original Community Organizer
Long before Raphael Warnock’s Senate run, the biblical call for freedom for the oppressed stirred Atlanta Christians to social action.
Cover Story
Atlanta Beyond MLK: How Black Christians Continue a Civil Rights Legacy
Generations take up the gospel work of becoming a beloved community.
Features
The Best Way to Memorize Scripture Has Little to Do with Learning Words
How neuroscience can help us to be doers of the Word.
Testimony
I Took Drugs to a Church Conference. Then God Found Me.
My fierce resistance and indifference didn’t stop the Spirit.
Good News: Tomorrow We Die
Why dwelling on our mortality may be good for us.
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Responses to our July/August issue.
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We won’t solve our problems by retreating to the extremes.
Our October Issue: Atlanta’s Black Church
Honoring hard-won progress while lamenting the costs of the struggle for justice.
News
Sign Language Bible Complete After 39 Years
Translation was led by deaf people trained in the biblical languages.
News
The Next Mission Field Is a Game
Esports opens new opportunities for evangelism, even during a pandemic.
News
Who Will Help Gen Z with Anxiety, Depression, Suicide? Youth Pastors Turn to Counseling.
New awareness of mental health sends ministers in search of resources.
Reviews
Excerpt
Churches: Don’t Worship—or Serve—Until You’re Blue in the Face
Maintaining a balance between gathering and scattering is the key to avoiding spiritual pneumonia.
Pursuing Racial Justice Requires More Than Lament, but Never Less
How the sharing of prayer and pain leads to trust—and then to change.
Review
Marilynne Robinson’s Latest Novel Probes the Mysteries of Predestination and Grace
Jack Boughton, the wayward pastor’s son, is a central character. So is Jesus.
Review
Jesus Is Your Lord and Savior. Is He Also Your Philosopher King?
Why the church should learn to appreciate Christ as the world’s greatest thinker.
New & Noteworthy Books
Compiled by Matt Reynolds.
Views
When It Comes to Sacrifice, God Doesn’t Play Fair
Humans have a penchant for sacrifice, but it’s the Lord who makes it possible.
Your Devotional Is Not a Bible
Inspiration and comfort do not offer us the full weight and scope of God’s Word.
Editorial
Christianity Is About Systemic Change
Why we need the one in whom all things hold together.