Book Briefs: September 14, 1973

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Christianity Today September 14, 1973

Unfreedom of Speech in the U. S. S. R.

Editor’s Note …

Copernicus and the Church

R. Laird Harris

The New Pentecostalism: Reflections by a Well-Wisher

Clark H. Pinnock

Israel Remembers Her ‘Super Alamo’!

Biblical Directives for Worship

The Necessity of God

The Refiner’s Fire: Fiction: God and Peter Wimsey

Editorial

Have Christians Lost Their Mind?

The French Contribution I: Goldmann

Tributes to L. Nelson Bell

Harold Lindsell, Editor-Publisher

Eutychus and His Kin: September 14, 1973

Religion in the Schools

Carl F. H. Henry

Obedience

Tragedy in Timbuktu: Africa’s Creeping Calamity

Change and Providence

Harold O. J. Brown

Creative Learning: ‘The Pacific College Idea’

Russell Chandler

Low Overhead

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Cornel West: Justice, Not Revenge

Exploring how love grounds justice, courage resists fear, and faith shapes public action.

A tiny man next to a huge microphone.

A Quiet Life Sets Up a Loud Testimony

Excellence and steady faithfulness may win the culture war.

Stained glass window depicting Jesus

News

Survey: Evangelicals Contradict Their Own Convictions

A new State of Theology report shows consensus around core beliefs but also lots of confusion.

Claw shadows on a wall.

Public Theology Project

What Horror Stories Can (and Cannot) Tell Us About the World

We want meaning and resolution—and the kind of monster we can defeat.

Paul Kingsnorth

The Russell Moore Show

Paul Kingsnorth on the Dark Powers Behind AI

Are we summoning demons through our machines?

Anime characters in the clouds.

Welcome to Youth Ministry! Time to Talk about Anime.

Japanese animation has become a media mainstay among Gen Z. You may not “get” it, but the zoomers at your church sure do.

A film still from the movie.

Review

‘One Battle After Another’ Is No Way to Live

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson plays out the dangers of extremism.

A film still from the movie.

Review

Tyler Perry Takes on ‘Ruth and Boaz’

Haleluya Hadero

In his new Netflix movie, Ruth is a singer, Boaz has an MBA, and the Tennessee wine flows freely.