Book Briefs: April 6, 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 April 6, 1984

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Supreme Court Speaks up for Religion in American Life

Beth Spring

An All-Court Press for School Prayer

Beth Spring

Refiner’s Fire: The Master’s Touch

Shirley W. Belleranti

Help Me Shed My Excess Baggage

Juliana Lewis

Books that Influence Our Lives

Billy Graham Views the End Times

W. A. Criswell’s Key to Successful Preaching

W. A. Criswell

Insights on Eternity from a Scientific View of Time

Philip Yancey

Willie: Maximum Freedom in a Maximum-Security Prison

Larry R. Isitt

The Necessity of Death: There Is No Life without It

Virginia Stem Owens

How Freedom of Thought Is Smothered in America: A Pluralistic Society Demands that Christian Values Be Heard. Instead They Are Being Blotted Out

Carl Horn

Editorial

The Good News the Resurrection Brings

Eutychus and His Kin: April 6, 1984

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The Olympic rings and five athletes.

Christian Athletes to Cheer on at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics

Annie Meldrum

Competitors in speedskating, bobsledding, the biathlon, and hockey speak about their faith.

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Review

This ‘Screwtape for Our Times’ Will Challenge and Confound You

Brad East

The Body of This Death is difficult to classify, difficult to read, and absolutely worth your time.

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Being Human

Andrew Arndt: The Hidden Struggles of Public Figures and Why Real Community Matters

How do we identify coping mechanisms and begin a journey to wholeness?

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The Russell Moore Show

Should I Leave My Church Over Calvinism and Arminianism?

Russell answers a listener question about whether a church’s differences over Calvinism and Arminianism mean it’s time to leave his church.

Abraham Lincoln in 1863

Was Abraham Lincoln a Christian?

Marvin Olasky

In his younger years, Lincoln was a skeptic. But as he aged, he turned toward biblical wisdom—and not only when in the public eye.

An IV and hospital bed.

Killing People Is Not the Same as Allowing Them to Die

Matthew Loftus

And the church of Jesus Christ has to offer people a better way of thinking about life and dependence if we want to push against the horrors of euthanasia.

Newspaper clippings showing Carl Henry, Nelson Bell, and civil rights events.

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How CT Editors Carl Henry and Nelson Bell Covered Civil Rights

Michael D. Hammond

Trying to stake out a sliver of space for the “moderate evangelical,” the magazine sometimes left readers confused and justice ignored.

Richard Nixon Eating with Zhou Enlai in 1972.

CT Reports from Nixon’s Trip to Communist China

Daniel Silliman

In 1972, American evangelicals were concerned about religious liberty around the world and moral decline at home.

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