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What Christians Miss When They Dismiss Imagination

Understanding God and our world needs more than bare reason and experience.

Douglas Estes

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Review
Reason and Logic Belong to God. So Do Imagination and Myth.
A new book explores what C. S. Lewis believed about the multileveled nature of reality.

Louis Markos
Video
AJ Sherrill: The Importance of Imagination
The church should empower curiosity and foster imagination...but does it?
Father's Day
The Last Gift My Father Gave Me
A surprising encounter with my dad, Jesus, and Jerry Seinfeld opened a door to long-awaited healing.

Michael Cosper
Review
It’s Never Too Late to Forgive a Flawed Father—or to Ask How He Got His Scars
What an attention-starved son learned while reconstructing the life of his distant dad.

Chad C. Ashby

Books

Review
Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture
Aaron M. Renn
Excerpt
Defiant Joy: Find the Hope to Light Your Way, Even in the Darkness
Jennifer Michelle Greenberg
Review
Songs I Love to Sing: The Billy Graham Crusades and the Shaping of Modern Worship
Edith L. Blumhofer
Review
Hope for God's Creation: Stewardship in an Age of Futility
Andrew J. Spencer
Review
Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
Nijay K. Gupta
Review
Crossing Cultures with the Gospel: Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian Witness
Darrell L. Whiteman

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Q&A

Why the Pacific Islands Are 90 Percent Christian

It wasn’t only because of missionaries from the West, says a Tongan Australian theologian.

Interview by Geethanjali Tupps

Creating Christian College Presidents for the Future

A first cohort of scholars consider whether God is calling them to executive leadership.

Hannah Vinueza McClellan

Public Theology

Reality Is Now a Diss Track

Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s rivalry reveals our craving for controversy—and what’s lost when community is based on shared hatred, not love.

Russell Moore

Obituary

Died: Gospel for Asia Founder Athanasius Yohannan

The champion of “native missions” trained more than 100,000 evangelists but got in trouble for financial mismanagement.

Daniel Silliman

Bringing the City of God to the Cities of Earth

Christian urban designers and developers explain how their faith affects their work—and how their work affects your faith.

Rabekah Henderson

Digital Lectors for a Postliterate Age

Postliterate people still need God’s Word, and online Bible ventures have found eager listeners.

Brad East

News

SBC Membership Falls to 47-Year Low, But Church Involvement Is Up

Amid the continued declines, Southern Baptists are celebrating back-to-back years of growth in worship attendance and baptism.

Kate Shellnutt

The Key to Fighting Sex Trafficking? Showing up.

Indonesia's Compassion First isn’t knocking down doors, but caring for victims and tutoring at-risk youth living in cemeteries.

Angela Lu Fulton in West Java

Let the Neurodivergent Children Come to Me

Gentle parenting is one tool to train up children who have disabilities with love and wisdom.

Sunita Theiss

Goodbye Postmodernism, Hello Metamodernism

Our apologetics must evolve to engage with the new cultural mood of the next generations.

Benjamin Vincent

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