Table Of Contents
September
2018
Volume 62, Number 7
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About This Issue
The cover story for our September 2018 issue examines how much, and for what reasons, Christians should fret over protecting their "privacy." From leaked emails to Facebook data to video surveillance ours is an age of paradoxical anxiety about concealing our personal information while, in many ways, we are more open with it than ever before.
Cover Stories
Why Christians should worry less about protecting their information and think more about giving it away.
Legal definitions of privacy focus on these three key areas of protection.
Features
Job 13:15 is more anguished—and encouraging—in its original wording.
Melani McAlister’s new history aims to capture what the familiar political story leaves out.
The hurricane that destroyed the island has completely shaken its approach to ministry.
Where there may be room for GMOs and other modern agriculture in the New Jerusalem.
Views
The Bible's blueprint for paradise lowers the awe-inspiring to the everyday.
Mercy is what holiness looks like in the lives of God's children.
Reviews
He was a budding white nationalist leader. His friends thought he could be something different.
But our failures as parents and spouses, as sons and daughters, ultimately point the way to something better.
A new “spiritual biography” of the author of A Wrinkle in Time celebrates her refusal to be pigeonholed.
Chosen by Bruce Riley Ashford, provost and professor of theology and culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and author of 'Letters to An American Christian.'
News
How do you persuade someone who already thinks they’re a Christian to become one?
Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our September issue).
Cultures of restraint fare better than cultures of mere consent, research shows.
More from this Issue
How much power do secrets hold over the Christian?
How an epiphany about the wages of my sin opened the door for his cleansing light.
