About This Issue: May 08, 1964

Several essays stress Christian education in college and seminary. Out of his experience as Princeton chaplain, Ernest Gordon speaks of the need for proclaiming the Word to students today (page 4).… Bernard Ramm says that the fusion of biblicism, theology, and liberal arts that produced the Reformation is needed in Christian education today (page 6).

How is the Church to strike a balance between nurture and witness? David B. Woodward declares that evangelism still has priority (page 9).

News report on the third session of the Consultation on Church Union and the NAE Convention.

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 May 8, 1964

Dynamic Simplicity

James H. Taylor, Sr.

‘He Ascended into Heaven’

The Editors

The Word and the Campus

Ernest Gordon

The Roots of Christian Humanism

Bernard Ramm

The Missionary Calling

David B. Woodward

Distinctives of a Christian College

Thomas B. Mcdormand

Prayer, the Bible, and the Schools

Ronald C. Doll

Eutychus and His Kin: May 8, 1964

The Predicament of Youth

L. Nelson Bell

Editorial

Civil Rights and Christian Concern

The Editors

The Minister’s Workshop: Five Marks of an Evangelical Preacher

Andrew W. Blackwood

The Image of God and the Landscape of Death: Artists and Critics on Modern Art

Book Briefs: May 8, 1964

The A B C of the Gospel

Cary N. Weisiger Iii

The Blake Proposal: Strides and Snags

Frank Farrell

Evangelical Action in Chicago

Frank E. Gaebelein

Faith and Form

The Bible on the Beaches

Current Religious Thought: May 8, 1964

Harold B. Kuhn

Our Latest

Pastor Ara Torosian filmed Border Patrol agents arresting Iranian members of his congregation.

News

Iranian Christian Freed Nine Months After Border Patrol Arrest

Video of agents arresting him and his wife in Los Angeles went viral, and their church has been praying for his freedom.

John Perkins

Public Theology Project

Why John Perkins Stood (Almost) Alone

The civil rights leader treated love of God and love for others as inseparable.

The Russell Moore Show

Doug McKelvey on Rites of Passage and the Sacredness of Ordinary Life

Every Moment Holy author Douglas McKelvey on writing prayers for the moments both sacred and mundane.

An image from Star Wars and a magazine cover from the CT archives.

From a Galaxy Far, Far Away to Carol Stream, Illinois

Daniel Silliman

CT tracked cultural changes while going through several of its own.

A woman walking on a dirt road in Zingqolweni village in South Africa.

What Loving South Africa Taught Me About Patriotism

Christina Stanton

Attachment to another country didn’t diminish my affection for America. It showed me God’s love for all peoples.

hands building a DNA strand

Wonderology

Owner’s Manual Part One: The Instructions

What if our bodies came with operating instructions—and we could finally read them?

Man bikes past a communist-style propaganda poster of a North Korean leader.

The Bulletin

IDF and Lebanon, Ukraine’s Fears, AI Data Centers, and a Korean Messiah

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll, Russell Moore

Israel fights Hezbollah, Ukraine left behind, US builds data centers, and North Korea’s Evangelical roots.

The book cover on an orange background.

Review

Trashing Evangelicals Is No Way to Fight Conspiracism

Bonnie Kristian

Jared Stacy’s new book correctly identifies a serious problem. But his depiction of evangelicalism is overblown and unreasonable.