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Wednesday, July 26, 2006
It was a strange line in a strange movie, The Da Vinci Code. But it was a line that will resonate with lovers of the written word.
Without spoiling the plot, I can say this much: Tom Hanks is fleeing his pursuers and trying to unravel a mystery, when he figures out that the answer lies in a repository of books. He blurts out, "I've got to get to a library, fast!"
I imagine eyes of librarians in theater audiences welled up with tears. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing banners slung across the front of libraries everywhere—a picture of a frantic Tom Hanks with his paraphrased words blazened in red: You've got to get to a library, fast!
Libraries indeed are delightful places, mysterious in their own way. (Who can untie the logical knots of either the Dewey Decimal or the Library of Congress catalog systems?) But libraries are also the place where mysteries are solved—where facts can be checked, opinions scoured, insights received, wisdom gained.
The name we've given the digital place where we've accumulated the millions of words of Christianity Today, Leadership, Christian History & Biography, and Books & Culture is not an accident. Yes, it is called the CT Library. It is indeed a place where many a question can be answered and many a mystery unlocked. Over the years, these four fine journals have covered an array of topics, from Adam to Zechariah, from alcoholism to zoning. There's hardly a topic about which you won't find good reporting or wise commentary. For a look at some of the coverage pornography has received, for instance, check out CT associate editor Madison Trammel's blog entry below.
Now hurry up, you have to get to the library!
Mark Galli, Managing Editor
Christianity Today
E-mail: CTLibrary@ChristianityToday.com
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 An Unwelcome Tenant
Pornography is making itself at home in too many Christians' lives.
by Madison Trammel
In the early 1990s, a friend of mine took a pastoral training course at the Master's College in Santa Clarita, California. The class met once a week, surveying many of the topics one would expect in such a setting. But the professor also spotlighted a less popular subject: sexual sin. Every week, without exception, he recounted the story of a friend who had been disqualified for ministry by moral failure.
The failure could be an affair or an addiction to pornography. The saddest part, the professor said, was how easy it was to come up with such stories. He had more than enough to fill a semester.
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