Christianity Today

March, 2022

Volume 66, Number 2

The Wondrous Cross
January/February, 2022

As an editor, I usually prefer precise words to ambiguous ones like “deconstruction.” But at CT, I’m surrounded by good words that require constant clarification and differentiation, “evangelical” chief among them. In fact, frustration with the increasing ambiguity of “evangelical” is a common starting point for many who now describe themselves as deconstructing. In this month’s cover story, theologian Kirsten Sanders offers a helpful definition of deconstruction: “the struggle to correct or deepen naive belief.” Even more helpfully, she rightly sees that struggle as akin to our theological work of knowing and loving God more deeply. As our cover asks this month, aren't you deconstructing, too? -Ted Olsen, executive editor

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Cover Story

Cover Story

Wait, You’re Not Deconstructing?

What’s behind the exvangelical trend isn’t new. But it sheds new light on theology.

Features

The Church Is Losing Its Gray Heads

Why are boomers and Gen X dropping out of church at higher rates than younger Christians?

Birth Behind Bars: Christians Fight ‘Cruel,’ Outdated Prison Policies

Ministry efforts aim to induce change and offer care for the growing number of new moms separated from their babies due to incarceration.

Testimony

I Left the New Age Behind When I Read the Old Testament

My books and courses brought fame and fortune. Now I’m begging people to ignore what I taught.

Christian Witness After War: A Firsthand Assessment of Armenia and Azerbaijan

After churches change hands in Nagorno-Karabakh, can Armenian and Azeri Christians reconcile faster than their governments?

More from this Issue

Our March Issue: Defining Deconstruction

Why attempts at a synonym fail.

We Live in a Global Generation

CT’s growing international team will serve the world’s growing church.

Reply All

Responses to our December issue.

News

News

The Confederate Statues Are Gone. The Work of Repentance Continues.

These white evangelicals want to make the former capital of the Confederacy into the capital of racial reconciliation.

News

New Brethren Churches Wrestle with Details of Denominational Division

The doctrines separating them are clear. The legal process of disentanglement, less so.

News

An AI Aims to be First Christian Celebrity of the Metaverse

But for now, the gospel music algorithm still needs human help.

News

100 Women Consider Ending Their Pregnancies. How Many Get an Abortion?

The answer may depend on crisis pregnancy centers.

News

Gleanings: March 2022

News from Christians around the world.

Reviews

Excerpt

The Bible Has a Clear and Consistent ‘Party Theology’

We’re called not only to attend them, but also to throw them ourselves.

Religious Experiences Are Common. Which Ones Should We Trust?

Reports of divine encounters aren’t always legitimate, but they shouldn’t be lightly dismissed.

Review

Denmark Vesey’s Challenge to a Biblically Literate Nation

The architect of a foiled 19th-century slave revolt justified violence in terms he hoped Americans would understand.

Review

When Billy Graham Took His Ministry Transatlantic

For all that separated America and Europe in the 1950s, their experience of the crusade leader was remarkably similar.

New & Noteworthy Books

Compiled by Matt Reynolds.

Views

Not All That Glitters Is Photoshopped

When everything seems fake, Jesus says, “Put your hand in my side.”

Editorial

We’re Not Mad Enough at Death

Dying is a fact of life. It’s also the enemy we’re called to resist.

It’s Hamilton’s World. We’re Just Living in It.

The Broadway hit serves as a parable of the post-Christian West.

Of Orphanages and Armies

My Russian-born son enlisting reminded me of my identity in Christ.

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