Book Briefs: March 2, 1984

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Reagan Stirs the Broadcasters with an Evangelical Speech

Eutychus and His Kin: March 2, 1984

Editorial

The IRS Is Not Always the Enemy

A Climate of Mind

Looking at the Death Penalty from behind Bars: Two Prisoners Offer an “Inside” Opinion

Richard Peck And Roger Todd

Christian Publishing: Too Many Books & Too Few Classics?: Christian Writers Often Express Their Theological Concepts without Emotion, Drama, or Tension

We Are in Love with Our Own Destruction: But Faith Is an Oasis Where Green Things Can Grow

Did You Hear the One about Cardinal Sin …: … or the Nurse Named Basin … or the Doctor Named Bonecutter?

Kathryn Lindskoog

Embryo Transfer: A Women Can Now Give Birth to Her Own Stepchild: But What Are the Moral and Legal Implications?

Robert G. Wells

A Royal Reception for Billy Graham in England

Tom Minnery

Here’s a Novel Way to Help Put a Student through College

Dan Pawley

Refiner’s Fire: The Generous Critic: John Updike

Rodney Clapp

A Virginia College Bans an Antiabortion Painting

Randy Frame

Churches’ Support Falters When Their Workers Organize

Steve Rabey

Volunteers Receive Federal Aid to Help Abused Children

Beth Spring

What Is the Best Systematic Theology for a Pastor or Lay Person?

In Wonder of the Psalms

Herbert Lockyer

How Dirty Jokes and the Fear of Death Prove There Is a Heaven

Controversial Theologian Hans Küng Affirms Faith in Life after Death

Hans Küng

College Students and the Church Can Get Together

Scott Hawkins

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Americans’ growing frustrations with Israel, Kash Patel sues The Atlantic for $250 million, and the popularity of John Mark Comer.

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How a Kidnapping Changed a Theologian’s Mind

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On America’s 250th, Remember Liberty Denied

Thomas S. Kidd

Three history books on the US slave trade.

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What Christian Athletes Can’t Do

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Facing Arrest, Cuban Christian Influencers Continue Call for Freedom

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Young people are using social media to spread the gospel and denounce the Communist regime.

Public Theology Project

Against the Casinofication of the Church

The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins told me about problems that feel eerily similar to what I see in the church.

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The Religion Gender Gap Among the Young Is Disappearing

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Women still dominate church pews, but studies find that devotion among Gen Z women has cooled to levels on par with Gen Z men.

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The venerable theological tradition makes war slower, riskier, costlier, and less efficient—and that’s the point.

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