Book Briefs: February 3, 1984

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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 February 3, 1984

What Hollywood Doesn’t Know about Romantic Love

Rodney Clapp

Eutychus and His Kin: February 3, 1984

Editorial

The God of the NCC Lectionary Is Not the God of the Bible

A Guest Editorial By Ben Patterson

Cavalier Revision

Living in a World with Thinking Machines: Intelligence Separates People from Animals. Very Soon It Will Not Separate People from Machines. How Should Christians Respond?

Allen Emerson And Cheryl Forbes

Exploring the Soul of the New Machine

You Can Buck the System and Win: Zwingli Did It 500 Years Ago

Sherwood Eliot Wirt

Zwingli Was the Reformation’s Most Gifted Musican: But He Banished Music from the Church

William Lock

How Many Hats Does Your Pastor Wear?: Eight Experts Suggest How Ministers Can Wear Them Better

What Is the Major Shift in Theological Focus?

Robert K. Johnston

Does the Bible Really Say All that about Romance?

Rodney Clapp

When Doubt Can Help You: It’s Too Bad Christians Have Given It a Bad Name

A. J. Conyers

Evangelical Scholars Remove Gundry for His Views on Matthew

Leslie R. Keylock

Churches Might Get a Reprieve from Paying Social Security

Beth Spring

Millions Respond to National Evangelistic Media Blitz

Randy Frame

Can a Deaf Mute Jew Become a Christian? A Court Says Yes

Religious Freedom in China—Is It Fact or Fiction?

Refiner’s Fire: Must Art Be “Christian” to Be Good?

Gene Edward Veith

Make the Most of What God Has Given You!

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Being Human

From Slavery to Skylines: The McKissack Family’s Journey in Building America

What can legacy, recognition, and success look like?

Let's Stop Abusing Romans 13

The Russell Moore Show

Let’s Stop Abusing Romans 13: On ICE violence

Believers often use Romans 13 to wave away state violence, but that’s the opposite of what Paul intended.

People praying at Early Rain Covenant Church in 2018.

News

Influential Chinese House Church Faces New Crackdown

Joy Ren

Leaders of Early Rain Covenant Church had prepared for the roundup, which saw 9 leaders and staff detained.

Protest in Iran; fire in the middle and people all around.

The Bulletin

Iranians Speak Up, Jerome Powell Stands Strong, and Grok Under Scrutiny

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll, Russell Moore

Iranians’ courage amidst deadly protests, the Federal Reserve’s independence in question, and explicit images in Elon Musk’s AI.

An image of MLK's funeral and an old CT magazine cover.

Through a Storm of Violence

Daniel Silliman

In 1968, CT grappled with the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

Three book covers.

Authority Is Good. But Whose Authority?

Three books on theology to read this month.

A man with a straw hat walks with others on the Selma to Montgomery marches held in support of voter rights in late March of 1965.

We Are Risking the Legacy of the Civil Rights Generation

All is not lost. But Christians must regain our distinctiveness and reclaim our moral clarity.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a press conference accompanied by his aide Reverend Andrew Young.

News

The Christian Curriculum Teaching Civil Rights to a New Generation

The program connects contemporary challenges to time-tested lessons from Civil Rights icons like MLK and Andrew Young.