October
2013
Volume 57, Number 8
![October October](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/34017.jpg?h=506&w=380)
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![Sarah Young Still Hears Jesus Calling Sarah Young Still Hears Jesus Calling](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/33997.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Not since “My Utmost for His Highest” has a daily devotional enraptured the English-speaking world, from cynical intellectuals to sweet grandmas, across the theological spectrum. How Young might change how we think about prayer.
Melissa Steffan
![Running the Race (Literally) Running the Race (Literally)](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/33985.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Why lace up your sneakers when you could just write a check? A personal look at what’s driving the charity running craze.
Marian V. Liautaud
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Reviews
![War Is For Wimps War Is For Wimps](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/34000.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Meet the gun-loving, red meat–eating evangelical whose reading of Scripture persuaded him to embrace nonviolence.
Review by David Gushee
![Brett McCracken: My Top 5 Brett McCracken: My Top 5](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/34328.jpg?h=154&w=220)
The author of Hipster Christianity lists the books that most shaped the ideas in his new release, Gray Matters: Navigating the Space between Legalism & Liberty (Baker Books, 2013).
Brett McCracken
News
![Can Sanford Pastors' Success Work in Other Cities? Can Sanford Pastors' Success Work in Other Cities?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/32335.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Why George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the Trayvon Martin case created racial havoc across America—but not at the trial’s epicenter.
Angela G. King