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Also in this issue

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.

Christianity Today September 28, 1962

Review of Current Religious Thought: September 28, 1962

Philip Edgcumbe Hughes

Book Briefs: September 28, 1962

Protestant Preview of Second Vatican Council

Editorial

Craftsmen Plus

43: The Final State: Heaven and Hell

Clean Christians

Eutychus and His Kin: September 28, 1962

Fall Book Forecast 1962

What Are You Looking For?

A. Skevington Wood

If You Would Be Gladly Heard

Margaret A. Graham

Is Language Worth the Trouble?

Dr. Robert Longacre

Eschatology and History

The Sermons of John Donne

William R. Mueller

Writing Is a Ministry

Harold N. Englund

One Lord, One History

Our Latest

People in the 1970s walking out of a church

You Don’t Need a Rule of Life

What you need is a church.

Churches with different scenes of Revelation in them on a black background

Which Church in Revelation Is Yours Like?

From the lukewarm Laodicea to the overachieving Ephesus, these seven ancient congregations struggled with relatable problems.

Be Afraid

Be Afraid Bonus Episode 3: Scott Teems

Sometimes, there’s safety in numbers.

Volunteers gather water to distribute after Helene knocked out running water in North Carolina

News

In Appalachia, Helene’s Water Crisis Taps a Global Christian Response

North Carolina churches are seeing people suffering dehydration. Disaster groups that work overseas are showing up to help.

Public Theology Project

The Bible Doesn’t Fit an Information Age

Algorithms strip us of mystery. The Gospels restore our ability to be astonished by the truth.

A screengrab of Billy Graham speaking in a classic video, wearing a suit with a green background.

Wire Story

Evangelicals for Harris Asked to ‘Cease and Desist’ Billy Graham Ad

Kathryn Post – Religion News Service

Franklin Graham says the campaign is “trying to mislead people” by positioning his father’s preaching in contrast to Donald Trump.

Mountains cutout in the background with stormy waves on top of it and a woman standing looking

Facing My Limits in a Flood Zone

As a minister, I’m used to helping people during crisis. But trapped at home during Hurricane Helene, I could only care for who was in front of me.

A photo of Nazis and a protestant bishop with white scribbles over it on a red background

5 Lessons Christians Can Learn from the Barmen Declaration

How a wartime confession resisted Hitler’s Nazification of the German church, and why its principles are still relevant today.