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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
The Pastor as Apologist: Restoring Apologetics to the Local Church
Michael McEwen; Dayton Hartman
Review
The Deconstruction of Christianity: What It Is, Why It’s Destructive, and How to Respond
Tim Barnett; Alisa Childers
Review
Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament
Sandra L. Glahn
Review
Solo Planet: How Singles Help the Church Recover Our Calling
Anna Broadway
Review
Hear Ye the Word of the Lord: What We Miss If We Only Read the Bible
John H. Walton; D. Brent Sandy
Review
Reckoning with Power: Why the Church Fails When It’s on the Wrong Side of Power
David E. Fitch

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Biblical Literacy in a Postliterate Age

We must always be people of the Word, but we’ll have to reimagine deep engagement with Scripture.

Brad East

News

After United Methodist Split, Some Conservatives Remain

Study: 24 percent of clergy in North Carolina are still opposed to same-sex marriage.

Yonat Shimron - RNS

In Secular UK, Evangelical Alliance Experiences Record Growth

Leader explains why the movement is seeing its biggest membership bump in 30 years and its mission for the years ahead.

Interview by James Thompson

Why Your Favorite Theologians Are All Talking about Theological Anthropology

Attention to bodies and cultural conflict has brought attention to the question of what it means to be human.

Stefani McDade in Texas

Global

Haitians Are Ministering at the End of the World

As Haiti is uprooted by violence, church leaders treat gunshot wounds, give up homes for strangers, and rescue dignitaries.

Andy Olsen

Français

Interview

Forgotten War: Sudan’s Displaced Christians Brace for ‘World’s Worst’ Hunger Crisis

Interview with leader of new evangelical alliance describes his escape from Khartoum and the pressure to pick a side.

Jayson Casper

Under Discussion

Are the Global Methodists Evangelical?

Here’s why the new denomination may or may not fit the label.

Daniel Silliman

What We Can Offer If We Uncircle the Wagons

Two new memoirs, Troubled and Between Two Trailers, make a powerful—if unintentional—case for the Christian ethos of family and community.

Carrie McKean

Paid Content for Prison Fellowship

Doing Time With Mom and Dad

How churches can help kids begin to heal.

News

More Pastors Are Leaving Ministry Over Church Conflict

But experts say it can offer opportunities for leaders and congregations to grow.

David Roach

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