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March
2021
Volume 65, Number 2
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About This Issue
This month’s issue features a collection of stories exploring how far America’s multiethnic church movement has come and how far it has yet to go. Ohio State University sociologist Korie Little Edwards, arguably today’s preeminent researcher of multiracial congregations, writes in a personal essay about the African American struggle to find “oneness” in diverse churches. While it takes different shapes, that struggle is shared by Christians in other ethnic communities, and it dates back to the early Corinthian church.
Cover Stories
Multiracial churches have not been good news for everyone. What can we do about it?
How the apostle’s instructions on the Lord’s Supper speak to multiethnic congregations today.
Many second- and third-generation Americans leave the ethnic congregations of their parents for white-led churches, only to come back.
Features
How one East Tennessee congregation took a leap of faith and witnessed a resurrection.
Jesus saw the disastrous end of faith-fueled zealotry and warned against it.
How I learned that the same God who numbered the stars knew and loved me personally.
Views
This Lent presses us to confront the sins of supremacy, celebrity, and other abuses of grace.
Christians don’t need mysticism or quiet emptiness for the illumination that comes through repetition.
The concept of competitive agency pits God’s actions against our own. But they go hand in hand.
Learning to discern entails humbly attuning our ears and softening our hearts.
Reviews
Christians won’t overcome partisanship just by resolving to order from each side’s policy menu.
Theologian Matthew Barrett diagnoses our drift away from an orthodox understanding of Father, Son, and Spirit.
If what we teach them is true, it will stand up to scrutiny.
News
At legal aid clinics, attorneys ask “Who would Jesus represent in court?”
New study shows food pantries serve more than their immediate neighbors.
Nonprofit licenses revoked, leaving millions without help.
The charges against him don’t make sense. And his day in court has been delayed again and again.
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