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May/June
2023
Volume 67, Number 4
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About This Issue
Our cover story this month delves into the intermingling of profits and praise, detailing how Sunday worship favorites (and their future royalties) have become popular investments in a multibillion-dollar industry. Also in this issue: the theological significance of singleness, a new video game in which players step into the sandals of the Savior, and the dangers of weaponizing forgiveness.
Cover Story
With corporate consolidation in worship music, more entities are invested in the songs sung on Sunday mornings. How will their financial incentives shape the church?
Features
The first woman tried to get free of God. But when she aligned herself with God’s purposes, she became the ‘Mother of All the Living.’
With a front-row seat to their parents’ failures and burnout, a long line of pastor’s kids still went into ministry. Why?
Twenty years ago, Republicans, Democrats, evangelicals, gay activists, and African leaders joined forces to combat AIDS. Will their legacy survive today’s partisanship?
A surprising psalm changed my view on God’s presence during seasons of trial.
He made himself real at a moment of intense spiritual fear.
Views
Though authoritarians misuse it, the truth of God’s Word remains.
It’s easy to forget that even the smallest gifts point to incredible divine abundance.
We must be wary of wrongly using the biblical command in order to silence victims of abuse.
From the Exodus to the Gospels, Scripture is shot through with images of labor pains leading to joy.
Reviews
They can encourage people on similar journeys. They can also misconstrue one’s own.
Unmarried Christians can live as signposts of the new creation.
A new history challenges perceptions that the two are either completely autonomous or completely at odds.
Don’t ignore their ordering in Paul’s passage on the fruit of the Spirit.
News
But doing battle with Satan in the Savior’s sandals prompts some to press pause.
Gregory XIII joins Martin Luther, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and many other Christians with an astronomical tribute.
And other news briefs from Christians around the world.
As an evangelical couple fights adoption law, Native American Christians point to holistic answers.
A Maine man learns that discerning God’s call can be complicated.
More from this Issue
CT staff share experiences being pastors’ kids and missionary kids.
Unlike Hezekiah, let’s embrace our impact on future generations.
