Book Briefs: August 10, 1984

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Christianity Today August 10, 1984

Cover Story

Hard Questions for Robert Schuller About Sin and Self-Esteem

Interview with Kenneth S. Kantzer, David F. Wells, and V. Gilbert Beers

Sam’s Son

A Theologian Looks at Schuller

Kenneth S. Kantzer with Paul W. Fromer

Schuller Clarifies His View of Sin

Robert Schuller

Eutychus and His Kin: August 10, 1984

Schuller Clarifies His View of Sin: Four Views of Sin Are Popular Today. Which Is Right?

Robert Schuller

After-School Orphans: More and More Children Are Taking Care of Themselves While Parents Work. But at What Cost?

Dean Merrill

Can We Transcend the Nuclear Stalemate?: Our Task Is Not to Wrestle with the World on Its Own Terms, but to Transform It from Above

Stephen L. Talbott

Evangelicalism: Accommodating, or Just Adapting?

Three Summer Movies

Gop Spurns Bid for U.S. Senate by Conservative Southern Baptist

Financial Crisis Grips Oral Roberts’s Medical Complex

America’s First ‘Christian’ Bank Goes out of Business

Religious Groups Seek Protection from New Civil Rights Measure

Beth Spring

A Severe Famine Threatens to Kill Millions in Africa

Tim Stafford

A Pastor Describes Brutal Conditions in Cuban Prisons

Janelle Conaway

State Appeals Court Says Pastors Must Stand Trial for Clergy Malpractice

Lloyd Billingsley

Dorothy, My Sister-in-Love

Walter Wangerin

Refiner’s Fire: Streisand and Women’s Ordination

Stephen Wiest

Our Latest

A man standing under the Taiwan flag looking through binoculars to a tattered Ukrainian flag.

The Bulletin

Midwest Primaries, Taiwan’s Ukraine Lessons, and Abortion Pill Case

Clarissa Moll, Russell Moore

Indiana and Ohio hold primaries, Trump travels to Beijing, and the Supreme Court considers the abortion pill.

The book on a red background.

Review

The Lies—and Truths—That Keep Some Black People Out of Church

Haleluya Hadero

A California pastor’s book confronts the painful parts of Christian history but points to the healing power of the gospel.

A damaged Christian church near the National Police Headquarters in downtown Khartoum.

News

Sudan’s Civil War Destroyed Hospitals and Churches

Emmanuel Nwachukwu in Khartoum

Local doctors and Christians are trying to rebuild lives in the capital city.

Three books on a blue background.

Review

Are Near-Death Experiences Evidence for Heaven?

Three theology books on the afterlife.

A pile of colorful clothes overlapping each other.

Thrifting to the Glory of God

Ann Byle

Shopping secondhand and donating our own items echoes Jesus’ renewal of discarded lives.

A 'No Kids Zone' sign at the entrance of a cafe in Seoul.

‘No-Kids Zones’ Abound in South Korea. But Kids Aren’t Pests.

Ahrum Yoo

In a country with one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, children are seen as a nuisance. But they are a blessing that can pierce the idols of efficiency.

Farmers harvest tea leaves at a tea plantation in Bomet County, Kenya on February 4, 2026.

News

Iran Tensions Threaten Kenya’s Largest Export Industry: Tea

Moses Wasamu

Christian farmers struggle to avoid bankruptcy.

A girl walking on floating stepping stones.

Q&A: Douglas McKelvey on Gen Z’s Lack of Rites of Passage

Interview by Ashley Hales

The Rabbit Room’s newest prayer book urges readers to join God’s mission in young adulthood.