Table Of Contents
May
2019
Volume 63, Number 4
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About This Issue
The May 2019 issue highlights an often-overlooked group in US border communities: binational students. Largely in the country legally, high school and college students in cities like El Paso, Texas, nonetheless feel the amplified tensions surrounding the immigration debate. They often face difficult choices as they try to meet the expectations of two cultures at once, Mexican and American.
Cover Story
How youth ministries are reaching teens torn between Mexico and the US.
Features
It turns out the Bible’s idea of worship is mostly about posture, not music or praise.
Why the best church small groups might take their cues from the Twelve Steps.
Stephen Lowe offers a biblical defense of online spiritual formation.
As young Brazilian missionaries, we learned to depend on God and the people we journeyed to reach.
Views
New Zealand revealed the tragic logical end of evils like Christian Nationalism.
How Jesus modeled relationships of surprising frankness and trust.
Why God sends his people into battle armed with the tools of everyday life.
Reviews
Why secular substitutes for religion will always leave us exhausted and unhappy.
If the enemies of truth employ the arts of persuasion, then lovers of truth have no choice but to employ them more effectively.
Even more than better systems and better policies, we need better theology.
We didn't accomplish everything we should have. God reminds us we didn't need to.
News
Fewer than 1 percent of missionaries end up among the world's least-Christian peoples. New categories aim to highlight the areas most desperate for the gospel.
Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our May issue).
The complexity of the situation even presents a challenge to Jewish Christian unity.
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Unbeknownst to me, I began recruiting my successor six years ago.
How a gang leader found salvation in prison.
