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October
2021
Volume 65, Number 7
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About This Issue
Evangelical intellectuals have generally disdained Christian fiction as lacking any real literary worth. But as Daniel Silliman notes in this month’s cover story, diverse groups of readers have long found virtue, pleasure, and the hope of Christ even in the most popular and viral Christian novels. Criticism of these books misses the crucial role they have played in shaping evangelicalism today.
Cover Story
“This Present Darkness” and other bestsellers show us the history of evangelicalism—and how it could be different.
Features
The top-selling author’s love language books have transformed millions of lives—except, maybe, for his.
The Gospel of John and medieval legend show Mary’s sister to value theology and hospitality.
Old-school evangelical leaders once knew the value of “care” over “cure.”
Biblical scholars and theologians have different ways of tending their own fields. What can they learn from each other?
How a quiet, bookish kid came to faith while living among rageaholics.
Views
American democracy and democratized Christianity face a similar crisis of disunity.
Hard as it is to believe, Christians have everything they need to “be one.”
How Christians can respond to their own dread about the last years’ uptick in violence and property damage.
The world’s most famous list of rules is grounded in something deeper than ethical principles.
Reviews
The writer’s new memoir sheds light on an upbringing steeped in bigotry and a lifetime of “useful” pain.
The philosopher and theologian ventures a new hypothesis on Genesis, human origins, and the historical Adam.
A Christian philosopher pushes back on attempts to rid ourselves of this unloved emotion.
Chosen by Cliff Warner, rector of Christ Church Anglican in Austin, Texas.
News
This wasn’t Johnny Berry’s plan. But he trusts a larger one.
The late evangelist is larger than life with monuments, markers, and museums.
News of Christians around the world.
For 19 days, two staffers told unaccompanied minors that God is a good father.
Christian ministries are concerned about the Biden administration’s efforts to expand a Trump program of scanning letters.
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Makers, planters, and growers of the next generation.
Before American Christians were known for writing pop fiction, they were known for disliking it.
When we divide the church into good guys and villains, we rob God of glory.
