Christianity Today

January/February, 2021

Volume 65, Number 1

March, 2021
December, 2020

Bible translation is fraught with challenges, especially when beloved passages are at stake. Producing Bibles gets even more challenging as publishers wade into the unavoidably subjective realm of study notes and margin commentaries. Yet through it all—and through storm and worldwide sickness—the Word of the Lord endures. Our issue this month pays homage to the timeless truth of Scripture, as well as to a few other books our team of judges loved this year.

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Cover Story

Cover Story

When A Word Is Worth A Thousand Complaints (and When It Isn’t)

Bible translation is about more than just technical accuracy.

Cover Story

Why There Are So Many ‘Miraculous’ Stories of Bibles Surviving Disaster

When Scripture makes it through flood or fire, we see signs of a faith that endures.

Cover Story

COVID-19 Hurts. But the Bible Brings Hope.

New study shows Scripture reading correlates with Harvard measures of human flourishing.

Features

Testimony

I Was Filming a Dangerous Action Scene When I Gave My Life to Christ

How a film and television stuntman met the Lord in the air.

Can We Do Better than the Enneagram?

A look at spiritual formation resources with better scientific backing.

Excerpt

The Cross Is God’s Answer to Black Rage

How Christ’s death and resurrection speak to the particular suffering of African Americans.

Christianity Today’s 2021 Book Awards

Our picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.

More from this Issue

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Responses to our November issue.

Our Jan/Feb Issue: Tomato, Tomahto, and the Bible

If the Christmas story actually happened in a garage, would we translate it that way?

Timely and Eternal

CT’s best coverage wraps current events in timeless truths.

News

News

The Majority of American Megachurches Are Now Multiracial

‘The most segregated hour of the week’ isn’t as segregated as it used to be, study finds.

News

Unearthing the Faithful Foundations of a Historic Black Church

In Colonial Williamsburg, a neglected Christian past is being restored.

News

Gambia’s Christians Take a Stand in the Public Square

After generations of avoiding politics, believers come together to work and pray for the nation’s future.

News

Questions Continue for Women in Complementarian Churches

Three decades after the Danvers Statement articulated clear gender roles, its application still causes tension.

Reviews

New & Noteworthy Fiction

Chosen by Hannah Vanderpool, novelist and teacher.

Our Attraction to Idols Remains the Same, Even When the Names Change

How false worship today resembles false worship in the Old Testament.

Review

A Christian Approach to Social Justice Is Slow, Careful, and Self-Reflective

Thaddeus Williams asks good questions about contemporary zeal for change. But there are questions to ask of his critique as well.

Review

After Binging on the Internet in 2020, We Need a Major Knowledge-Diet Overhaul

Brett McCracken applies food-pyramid principles to our habits of media consumption.

5 Books on the Nature of Human Emotions

Chosen by Matthew LaPine, author of “The Logic of the Body: Retrieving Theological Psychology” (Lexham Press).

Views

Where Is the Gospel in God’s Judgments on the Nations?

How to find the good, true, and beautiful in passages that seem anything but.

Don’t Pack Away the Dinnerware During COVID-19

Even in our small circles, when we practice hospitality, we foreshadow God’s coming kingdom.

Are the 81 Percent Evangelicals?

Just because people claim the name shouldn’t automatically imply they heed what it means.

The Pro-Life Project Has a Playbook: Racial Justice History

The anti-racism campaign is a model for the anti-abortion movement.

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