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Christianity Today
Volume 69, Number 6
As we enter the holiday season, we consider how the places to which we belong shape us—and how we can be the face of welcome in a broken world. In this issue, you’ll read about how a monastery on Patmos offers quiet in a world of noise and, from Ann Voskamp, how God’s will is a place to find home. Read about modern missions terminology in our roundtable feature and about an astrophysicist’s thoughts on the Incarnation. Be sure to linger over Andy Olsen’s reported feature “An American Deportation” as we consider Christian responses to immigration policies. May we practice hospitality wherever we find ourselves.
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Andy Olsen
Staff Writer
A Colombian couple prayed with neighbors and raised their children in one of America’s most influential churches. What did we gain from their deportation?
Deborah Haarsma
The heavens declare the glory of God in the person of Jesus Christ.
Kirsten Sanders
Contributor
Our therapy culture has made us too comfortable with God.
Kyle Dugdale
A monastery on Patmos builds silence in a world of noise.
Review
John G. Turner
Why Colorado Springs no longer shapes evangelicalism as it once did.
Review
Rick Ostrander
Russian troops destroyed its buildings but not its mission.
Review
Brian Key
A Chicago pastor encourages inner-city churches to see their youth as potential leaders.
Text by Ann Voskamp and Photos by Esther Havens
What was lost to war, God reclaimed in welcome. These portraits of christian refugees tell the story.
Russell Moore
Columnist
The transfiguration and the mystery of time and space.
Mark D. Bjelland
Stewarding our neighborhoods is part of Christian hospitality.
Photo essay by Andrew Faulk
A photo essay highlights thousands of pilgrims observing Christmas in the quiet highland town of Lalibela.
Nicole Massie Martin
CT Staff
A letter from Mission Advancement in our November/December issue.
Ashley Hales
Staff Editor
A note from CT’s editorial director in our November/December issue.
Review
Matt Reynolds
We’re right to be wary of the perils of thin community, like loss of meaning and, attachment to screens. But thick communities have woes too.
News
Daniel Silliman
Staff Editor
And other news from Christians around the world.
Clare Coffey
Celebrate anyway.
Lanier Ivester
Advent makes room for us so we can make room for Christ.
Qualms & Proverbs
Karen Swallow Prior, Kevin Antlitz, and Kiara John-Charles
Contributor; Contributor; Contributor, Qualms & Proverbs
CT advice columnists also weigh in on neighborhood witness and awkwardness at church.
Isabel Ong
Staff Editor
Three experts discuss whether the popular concept has a future in missions discourse.
Chris Howles
UK mission mobilizer wants to rethink “unreached people groups” amid changing migration patterns and a digitally-connected world.
Samuel Law
Singapore-based missiologist argues that the term “unreached people group” is a misnomer and can feed a romanticized notion of missions.
Matthew Hirt
American biblical scholar affirms the urgency and relevance of reaching the unreached in fulfilling the Great Commission.
Testimony
Franco Iacomini
Contributor
I wanted to be an eyewitness to Brazil’s history. Instead, God made me a witness to his work in the world.
Kate Lucky
Responses to our July/August article about AI and other stories.
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