Cover Story
Cover Story
Christianity Today’s 2022 Book Awards
Our picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.
Features
Excerpt
The Cosmos Is More Crowded Than You Think
How an old prayer and a newborn baby changed my perspective on angels.
Henrietta Mears, the Improbable Evangelical Leader
A new biography shows the Sunday school teacher played a key role in the movement, and the directions its leaders took.
John Stott’s Global God
The evangelical leader invested resources in Christian leaders around the world. Now those leaders are blessing the Western church.
Are the Arts a Tool, a Temptation, or a Distraction?
In “Discovering God Through the Arts,” Terry Glaspey says Christians haven’t always been suspicious of creative expression.
Evangelicals Have Made The Trinity a Means to an End. It’s Time to Change That.
For 2,000 years, church leaders held to the same Trinitarian doctrine. How did we lose our way?
How White Rule Ended in Missions
Western missionaries championed racial equality abroad while struggling with it in their own ranks.
Blessed Are Those Who Embody the Beautitudes
As we search for meaning in the “blessings,” we must let them transform us.
Testimony
I Entered Prison a ‘Protestant.’ I Left a Christian.
How a violent Northern Ireland loyalist became a pastor and an evangelist.
If I Had to Bow to an Idol, It Would Be the Sun
No other created object tells us more about the real God.
How to Disagree Nicely but Not Lose Your Convictions
Everything is not a biblical issue—but who decides?
Excerpt
Black Christians Are Confronting Black Lies About Christianity
How urban apologetics contends against the distortions promoted by “Black Conscious” movements.
Parents Set the Pace for Their Adult Children’s Religious Life
“Handing Down the Faith” shows a vast majority of Americans don’t choose their religious beliefs. They inherit them.
Excerpt
The Poet Who Prepared the Ground for the Sexual Revolution
Percy Shelley’s 19th-century attacks on marriage, monogamy, and Christianity foreshadowed progressive attitudes today.
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News
News
As COVID-19 Death Tolls Rise, More Americans Want Religious Funerals
The trend toward secular memorials reverses for the first time in a decade.
News
How Black Missionaries Are Being Written Back into the Story
Will fixing inaccurate representation encourage more minorities to “go into all the world”?
News
Illinois Eliminated Parole in 1978. These Christians Want to Bring it Back.
A belief that people can change bolsters their movement.
Reviews
Learning to Love Your Limits
Our overburdened lives are often a problem of theology, not time management.
Review
Well Done, Good and Faithful Missionary
Paul wasn’t shy about seeking God’s approval of his work. Elliot Clark wants us to recover that sense of motivation.