Volume 50, Number 12
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Comments on Will Graham's first crusade, getting over sexual abuse, Catholics and contraception, and the image of Islam.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
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CT staff
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The Ted Haggard scandal exposes our movement's strengths and weaknesses. A Christianity Today editorial.
A CT editorial
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Protect religious freedom by exercising it responsibly. A Christianity Today editorial.
A Christianity Today Editorial
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Being a counterculture for the common good begins with what we choose to focus on--and to overlook.
Andy Crouch
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Fascination with the Great Tradition may signal deep changes for both evangelicals and the Orthodox.
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Gregory Sisk's research finds that courts treat fringe religious groups better than Catholics and Baptists.
Interview by Nate Anderson
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And you thought secular bias on campuses was bad. Stephen Carter reviews The Decline of the Secular University.
'The Decline of the Secular University' reviewed by Stephen Carter
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How the doctrine of the Trinity shapes Christian life.
'God the Holy Trinity' reviewed by D.A. Carson
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Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond) on being in Hollywood but not of it.
Interview by Stan Guthrie
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Serving With Eyes Wide Open prepares short-term missionaries to be culturally sensitive.
Reviewed by Stan Guthrie
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A Jew Among the Evangelicals is a Jewish reporter's analysis of the Evangelicals around him.
Mark A. Kellner