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July/August
2021
Volume 65, Number 5
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About This Issue
When a band of Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls from a remote Nigerian town in 2014, it felt like the whole world was joining together to voice its outrage, thanks to a wildly successful social media campaign anchored in the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls. In this month’s cover story, two Wall Street Journal reporters with extensive experience in West Africa uncover the defiant Christian faith that sustained the girls throughout their captivity, detailing the strength they drew from stealthily shared prayers, songs, and Bible passages.
Cover Story
Why they wouldn’t bow to Boko Haram.
Features
As new tensions divide the country, the men’s movement leaders wonders what they could have done differently.
Publishers tried for years to get evangelical readers to care. Then one succeeded.
After the 2020 election, a remnant of charismatic leaders are trying to revive their movement from within.
As more evangelical figures embrace crowdfunding, is the format demanding too much of them?
As we gather again, congregants bring the weight of trauma and tensions built up over more than a year spent apart.
How a passage in John’s gospel transformed my perspective on God and suffering.
Views
CCCU schools are facing intense pressure. But it’s an opportunity, not a siege.
We can make modest progress through human effort, but only God can deliver true equity.
Christians have always been called to love place and neighbor over the power of state.
They point to his dialogue with the Syrophoenician woman. But the story shows the opposite of what they claim.
Reviews
Michael Bird offers a trusty primer on reading and understanding God’s Word.
How the message of Christ resonated through the centuries, even at moments when his followers failed to keep the tune.
Chosen by Davis Bunn, bestselling author and writer in residence at Regent’s Park College, Oxford University.
How “redemptive entrepreneurship” can multiply the impact of cash-strapped ministries.
Chosen by Jennifer Woodruff Tait, editor of “Christian History” magazine and author of “Christian History in Seven Sentences.”
News
Voting guides have been replaced by discussion questions as Christians consider the future.
Nations around the globe are pushing bans on conversion therapy, some without defining what it is.
It’s one thing to tell the city that you’re there for its good. It’s another to show it.
In the Music City, CCM sales outpace country albums.
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