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April
2021
Volume 65, Number 3
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About This Issue
Singles in America have been fostering and adopting children for decades. This month’s cover story documents the overlooked “single parents by choice” in the evangelical world. Churches, long committed almost exclusively to the nuclear family, have broadened their ministry approach to better embrace this group—even as many church leaders wrestle with the implications of Christians feeling called to raise kids outside of marriage.
Cover Story
As more unmarried women and men foster and adopt, how can the church provide what some nontraditional families cannot?
Features
More evangelicals are living together before marriage. Church leaders struggle to respond.
Jacob’s Ladder challenges special education norms thanks to Amy O’Dell's relentless belief in her son.
My journey from a religion of self-salvation to a faith that takes sin seriously.
Views
Vaccines feel like a miracle. How much more the real miracle of eternal life?
When God seems invisible, he may just be moving faster than we can see.
Scripture and sermon can hardly compete with the charms (‘prelest’) of cable news and Twitter.
Much more was at stake than a criminal’s fate or a crowd’s preference.
Reviews
Two pastors advocate reparations for victims of white supremacy.
Preston Sprinkle gives guidance on thinking biblically and listening in love.
Chosen by Susan Meissner, author of “The Nature of Fragile Things” and “The Last Year of the War.”
How Claire Culwell’s life changed when she discovered the shocking truth about her biological mother.
Chosen by A. J. Swoboda, author of “After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith without Losing It.”
News
Immigrants on ICE’s list may see kinder treatment from President Biden, but change hasn’t happened yet.
Why religion polling methods are changing.
Tates Creek Presbyterian won praise for its transparent investigation. Then it had to do it again.
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CT’s single-parent adoption pioneer shares her story.
