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YouVersion’s Volunteer Army

With more than 22 million users on mobile platforms, and millions more on its website, it has unusual success in creating a massive participatory system like Wikipedia or YouTube.

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Previous articles on church life and technology include:

Multi-Site Churches Go Interstate | Megachurches expand across state lines. (June 27, 2011)

Should Multisite Campuses Be Church Plants Instead? | Church leaders and observers weigh in on a current debate. (September 29, 2011)

The Art of Cyber Church | Joel Hunter is known by many as part of President Obama’s inner circle of pastors. Fewer know him as one of America’s most innovative church planters. (September 16, 2009)

High-Tech Circuit Riders | Satellite churches are discovering a new way to grow the body of Christ. (October 31, 2005)

CT previously spotlighted Osama bin Laden’s death, Reformed hip-hop, church value, Christian names, how evangelicals give, evangelical vs. mainline politics, today’s pilgrims, President Obama’s faith, the future(s) of missions, health-care reform, Africa, American Idol, Haiti, Robert Park, persecution, Supreme Court and crosses, international religious liberty advocates, and church violence.

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The CT archives are a rich treasure of biblical wisdom and insight from our past. Some things we would say differently today, and some stances we've changed. But overall, we're amazed at how relevant so much of this content is. We trust that you'll find it a helpful resource.

Cover Story

Refocusing on the Family

Sarah Pulliam Bailey

My Top 5 Books On Heaven

Paul Enns

Jesus: Democratic King

John Witte Jr.

Joy in the Midst of Terror

Interview by Joe Carter

Back to the Garden

Tony Carnes

City Parish: An Australian Builds NYC Networks

Mark Moring

The Power and the Glamour

The Paul We Think We Know

Timothy Gombis

News

Youth Movement: Finns Seek Renewal

Ruth Moon

Review

Picturing Paradise: A Review of 'Heaven in the American Imagination'

Bill Walker

Dying Decisions: Should Relatives Intervene?

Dennis Sullivan, Rob Moll, and Robert Orr

A Second-Coming Christian

Harry Potter Is Here to Stay

John Granger

News

A Liberating Woman: A Reflection on the Founder of Christians for Biblical Equality

Elaine Storkey

Review

Common Grace and Amazing Grace: A Review of David Brooks's 'The Social Animal'

Books to Note

Trevin Wax

India's Grassroots Revival

Tim Stafford

News

Syria's Christians Back Assad

Dale Gavlak in Amman, Jordan, and Beirut, Lebanon, and Timothy C. Morgan

Readers Write

Excerpt

God Behaving Badly

David T. Lamb

Q & A: Bishop Kallistos Ware on the Fullness and the Center

News

Go Figure

News

Ministerial Murkiness: Biggest Religion Case in 20 Years?

Ken Walker

A Change of Focus

Family Talk, Family Business

Sarah Pulliam Bailey

News

Christian President Retains Office, Pastor Kidnapped in Mexico, & Other News

News

Passages

News

Quotation Marks

News

Should Marital Infidelity Disqualify a Candidate from Office?

Compiled by Ruth Moon

News

Multi-Site Churches Go Interstate

Bob Smietana

News

Renewal Groups Strategize after the PC(USA) Drops Celibacy Clause for Gay Clergy

Bobby Ross Jr.

Editorial

Harold Camping Is (Sort of) Right

A Christianity Today Editorial

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The Bulletin

Venezuelan Oil, LA Fires Aftermath, and Revival In America

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll, Russell Moore

The global aftershock of military action in Venezuela, California churches rebuild one year after LA fires, and the possibility of revival in America.

What Christian Parents Should Know About Roblox

Isaac Wood

The gaming platform poses both content concerns and safety risks that put minors in “the Devil’s crosshairs.” The company says tighter restrictions are coming.

How Artificial Intelligence Is Rewiring Democracy

Three books on politics and public life to read this month.

Analysis

The Dangerous Ambition of Regime Change

The Bulletin

Is America’s appetite for power in Venezuela bigger than its ability to handle it?

News

Kenyan Christians Wrestle with the Costs of Working Abroad

Pius Sawa

Working in the Gulf States promises better pay, but pastors say the distance harm marriages and children.

Happy 80th Birthday, John Piper

Justin Taylor

Fame didn’t change how the Reformed theologian lives.

So What If the Bible Doesn’t Mention Embryo Screening?

Silence from Scripture on new technologies and the ethical questions they raise is no excuse for silence from the church.

The Chinese Evangelicals Turning to Orthodoxy

Yinxuan Huang

More believers from China and Taiwan are finding Eastern Christianity appealing. I sought to uncover why.

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