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July/August
2023
Volume 67, Number 5
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About This Issue
What does it look like to love one’s neighbor across a shared history of slavery? Our cover story explores racial reconciliation through the lens of one specific relationship: family friends grappling with the discovery that one’s ancestor had enslaved the other’s. Also in this issue: honoring Tim Keller, what we get wrong about David and Goliath, Elisabeth Elliot’s unsentimental realism, and Christ-honoring masculinity.
Cover Story
In the farming community of Dirt Town Valley, family friends grapple with a difficult truth: One ancestor was enslaved by another.
Features
Why our church emphasizes a meal where all are welcome.
We like imagining that a young, hopeless David killed Goliath. We need the fuller story.
For Amos, it depends on whether the God we worship demands justice.
At a moment of crisis, my drive to excel seemed increasingly pointless.
Views
Our ambition should take a back seat to our conscience.
What we want for ourselves becomes what we offer to others.
Can we recover a healthy, Christ-honoring vision for masculinity?
Our view of the end times should affect our politics. But how?
Reviews
No less than her martyred husband, she could be inspiring and frustrating all at once.
Jana Harmon paints a detailed picture of the reasons skeptics come to faith.
Scripture is clear that both go hand in hand.
Chosen by Sarah J. Hauser, author of “All Who Are Weary: Finding True Rest by Letting Go of the Burdens You Were Never Meant to Carry.”
News
The city some dismiss as “The Swamp” is fertile ground for evangelicals.
Pregnancy centers were attacked in 24 states in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision on abortion rights.
And other news briefs from Christians around the world.
(UPDATED) The costs and complications of UMC disaffiliation are leaving many congregations stuck.
Christians there struggle to maintain global connections amid international conflict.
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