Book Briefs: May 18, 1984

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Christianity Today May 18, 1984

Special Evangelism Section: Evangelism: The New Wave Is a Tidal Wave: You Can Even Talk about Evangelism in Polite Society

Tim Stafford

Eutychus and His Kin: May 18, 1984

Editorial

The “Separation” of Church and State?

The Real Issue: Free Exercise of Religion

Vanishing Childhood: Our Confused Culture Is Crowding out the Most Important Years of Life

Rodney Clapp

Eight Important Books on Vanishing Childhood

On Mourning the Death of a Marriage: It Should Not Be; but If Death Occurs, We Need to Know How to Grieve

Walter Wangerin

The Greatest Church Growth Is beyond Our Shores: The World’s Biggest Churches Are Not in Dallas or Los Angeles

C. Peter Wagner

Heaven and Hell under Every Bush

Thomas Howard

The ‘Atrocious’ Mathematics of the Gospel

Refiner’s Fire: There Is an Answer to Evil

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

How Does the Church’s View of Millennialism Affect Missions?

Leslie R. Keylock

Spirituality from the Bottom Up

Witnessing: A Way of Life or a Way with Words?: To Share God’s Message I Must Be God’s Person

Dick Innes

How the World’s Largest Church Got that Way: The Pastor Explains How to Evangelize through Cell Groups

Paul Yonggi Cho

A Study Finds Little Evidence that Religious TV Hurts Local Churches

Beth Spring

An Evangelical Presbyterian Body Asks a Second Group to Join It

Strategists Work to Sound the Death Knell for Abortion

Randy Frame

Fundamentalists Go to Capital to Discuss God, Not Government

Move over National Enquirer—The Bible Is Coming

He Puts Biblical Archaeology on 100,000 Coffee Tables

A White House Aide Reaches out to Reagan’s Opponents

Rock ‘N’ Rollen Flashes His Gospel Message on Television

James R. Adair

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Nominations Are Open for the Christianity Today Book Awards

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Instructions for authors and publishers.

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Why We Retracted a Report About Violence in Afghanistan

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A note from CT’s editorial director for news about our reporting on an attack on a house church.

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Public Theology Project

What Social Media Addiction Tells Us About Heaven and Hell

The infinite scroll is a counterfeit paradise, a parody of the coming world beyond “all that we ask or think.”

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Amy Grant on New Music After a Decade

What holds a life together when it feels fragmented?

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Floods Scatter Christian Communities in Africa

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A pastor in Kenya struggles to rebuild a church destroyed by erratic weather.

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Good Lungs and Lung Cancer

A tribute to Karl Zinsmeister, a Bush administration adviser who was a faithful Christian and the most interesting man I knew.