Table Of Contents
September
2020
Volume 64, Number 6
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About This Issue
Despite the historic fervor surrounding public debate about policing in America, little attention has been paid to the theology of law enforcement. Our cover package this month explores that theology in two parts. In the first, New Testament scholar Esau McCaulley outlines the apostle Paul’s challenge to policing and the state that authorizes it. In the second, pastor Michael LeFebvre argues that Old Testament law and practice make a clear case for policing that prioritizes the protection of society’s most vulnerable.
Cover Stories
As black Christians have long understood, the New Testament has a strong theology of law enforcement.
How biblical law can illuminate today’s debates on law enforcement.
Features
Candid accounts of the daily grind of oppression are a first step toward national healing.
COVID-19 is no excuse for neglecting God's call to study and create.
Why the Exodus must remain central to the African American church.
Trying to improve society is not worldliness but love.
Views
Why we shouldn’t divide the church into those who “get it” and those who don’t.
When we mess up God-given opportunities, God has a habit of giving us more.
Faithfulness is not easy for the politically powerful.
How to sort out the many disparities between the genealogies of Matthew and Luke.
Reviews
Tara Isabella Burton’s report on the ascendance of “Remixed” spirituality is equal parts fascinating and dismaying.
How the church can shape public policy without losing its soul.
Chosen by Erin Bartels, author of "We Hope for Better Things" and "The Words between Us."
How a lovestruck literature student learned that lesson while walking Oxford’s cobblestone streets.
Chosen by Bradley L. Sickler, author of "God on the Brain: What Cognitive Science Does (and Does Not) Tell Us about Faith, Human Nature, and the Divine" (Crossway).
News
From democratic Israel to theocratic Iran, Christian TV defends its right to exist.
Continues to trend more secular, as safety and flexibility are given top priority.
Christians consider the moral weight of the ballot.
National leaders back re-election. For others, the 2020 choice is not so clear.
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