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Glenn T. Stanton is director of social reseach and cultural affairs at Focus on the Family.

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A New Kind of Christian is available at Christianbook.com.

Christianity Today columnist Andy Crouch reviewedA New Kind of Christian for Christianity Today's sister publication Books & Culture.

In April, Christianity Today managing editor Mark Galli wrote that McLaren's plea is typical of postmodern reformers. He said: "I fear they would merely slap a coat of paint on a sagging building whose foundation needs attention. They would do well to take lessons from the very people they say they admire."

Publisher Josey-Bass has an excerpt of the book, as does Beliefnet.

There's a Yahoo group discussing the book.

In 1997, Leadership Journal, another Christianity Today sister publication, analyzed "The Riddle of Our Postmodern CultureWhat is postmodernism? Should we even care?"

Previous Christianity Today articles on the postmodern debate include:

The Anti-ModernsSix postmodern Christians discuss the possibilities and limits of postmodernism. (Nov. 13, 2000)

What Exactly Is Postmodernism?The often-maligned movement is today's academic Rorschach blot. (Nov. 13, 2000)

Urbanites: More Justice, Less EpistemologyThe emerging urban class is targeting capitalism and Christianity—often for good reason. (Nov. 13, 2000)

Scientists: Just Leave Us AloneNot all the academy is so taken with postmodernism. (Nov. 13, 2000)

The Sky Isn't FallingThe only remaining "ism" is postmodernism. And it is a formalized expression of despair. (Jan. 11, 1999)

Poster Boy for PostmodernismStrohmeyer told police he strangled the little girl by twisting her neck the way he had seen in movies. (Nov. 16, 1998)

Abraham Kuyper: A Man for This SeasonThe surprisingly relevant advice of a Dutch statesman for engaging postmodern culture. (Oct. 5, 1998)

The Oxford ProphetLewis predicted a time when those who want to remold human nature "will be armed with the powers of an omnicompetent state. (June 15, 1998).

A Theology to Die ForTheologians are not freelance scholars of religion, but trustees of the deposit of faith. (Feb. 9, 1998)

The New TheologiansCreating a theological symphony. (Feb. 8, 1998)

A Cultural Literacy PrimerTen resources Christians need for understanding today's world. (April 28, 1997)

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June 10 2002, Vol. 46, No. 7