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January 2010

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The Missionary Who Wouldn't Retire

Lesslie Newbigin, born 100 years ago today, launched a new career at age 66 by calling Western churches to act like they were in the mission field.

More Partners at the Table

Valdir Steuernagel says we need to learn how to serve in a fellowship of rich and poor, Africans and Asians, subsistence farmers and tech professionals.

The Dusty Messiah

Why I no longer believe in a spiritual Jesus.

The Myth of the Perfect Parent

Why the best parenting techniques don't produce Christian children.

Spiritual Lives All Their Own

What if children have their own experiences of God—and a genuine free will to respond?

Jesus and the Unclean Woman

How a story in Mark's gospel sheds light on the problem of obstetric fistula.

Hope for the 'Most Voiceless' on the Planet

A human rights lawyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and two world-class surgeons are rallying evangelicals to defeat fistula.

Curing Christians' Stats Abuse

The statistics we most love to repeat may be leading us to make bad choices about the church.

Carl Henry Was Right

Christianity Today's first editor grasped what I as a young theologian failed to understand about church involvement in social justice.

Briefing

Headlines

Top 10 News Stories of 2009

The events, people, and debates of the past year that have shaped, or will significantly shape, evangelical life, thought, or mission. Also: Top 10 news stories of the decade.

Passages

President of Feed the Children fired, James Dobson leaves Focus on the Family, and other transitions in the Christian world.

Orphans on Deck

Adoption steps to the front lines of the culture wars.

Stunned by Stupak

A surprise House ban on abortion funding reveals pro-life gains.

Quotation Marks

Recent remarks on the Manhattan Declaration, Christians in Turkey, and invoking Jesus.

Land and Building Wars

A handful of parishes win the right to keep their property, but legal experts don't know if their cases are setting a precedent.

Religious Self-Profiling

Identifying one's faith on online social networks proves challenging for some.

Audio Bibles Propel Scripture into Remote Regions

Technological advances are delivering Scripture across the globe.

Go Figure

Recent statistics on converts' zeal, faith-based funding, preaching social issues, and other topics.

Viewpoints

Welcome the Exceptional

Churches that embrace people with disabilities do more than they imagine.

Readers Write

Your responses to the November 2009 issue of Christianity Today.

Premarital Abstinence

What's the best way to encourage people to save sex for the covenant of marriage?

How the Early Church Read the Bible

The church fathers show us how to read Scripture imaginatively.

Segregated in a Whole New Way

A church family from the same generation isn't much of a family.

CT Review

Books

My Top 5 Books for Shaping Parents

Breadwinners and Benefactors

Lynn Cohick argues that early Christian women were more active in public life than we might think.

Wilson's Bookmarks

The Return of Religion, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and No Small Matter.

Selling Jesus to Optimistic America

How the positive thinking movement has shaped the church.

Introverts for Jesus, Unite!

How to get along with the extroverts who populate the Western church.

Dug Down Deep

Unearthing What I Believe and Why It Matters

In Every Issue

Taking the Long View

Parenting, our newest columnist, and the legacy of Carl Henry.

Faith Equals Action

To White House Fellow Adam Taylor, the math is simple.

Don't Miss

Forgiving Iran

Forgiving Iran

Long before I knew the true God, he helped me release my hatred.
Why Willpower Fails

Why Willpower Fails

Your willpower is limited, so use it wisely.

Great Humility

Great Humility

The power of a neglected virtue

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