Book Briefs: November 9, 1984

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Christianity Today November 9, 1984

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Former Reformed Church Head Is Nominated for Top Ncc Position

Eutychus and His Kin: November 9, 1984

Editorial

Partisan Politics: Where Does the Gospel Fit?

Learning from the Past

American Methodism at 200: The Case for Hope

Edmund W. Robb, Jr.

Missions on the Move

American Methodism at 200: The Case for Despair

Charles Keysor

American Methodism 200: The Unclaimed Heritage

Dennis E. Kinlaw

Deliver Us from Evil: In Today’s Peril, as in Nazi Germany, the Tempted Christ Stands Close By

Helmut Thielicke

Is Church Discipline an Invasion of Privacy?: Recent Court Cases Force the Question

Lynn Buzzard

Prolife Activists Escalate the War against Abortion

Randy Frame

Southern Baptist ‘Moderates’ Regroup for a 1985 Battle against Inerrantists

James C. Hefley

Some Christian Leaders Want Further Political Activism

Beth Spring

… and Black Americans Are Doing Their Part

Daniel W. Pawley

Preparing for the College Crunch: Wishful Thinking Won’t Send Children to the School of Their Dreams; Thoughtful Planning Will

Leslie R. Keylock

James Robison Leaves Church of Former Baptist President

Humanist Leader Files a Lawsuit against Aspects of Congressional Chaplaincy

Ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses Protest the Group’s Practice of Shunning Former Members

Gordon College and Barrington College Consider a Merger

Evangelical Students Gain Visibility at Yale

Experts Say Clergy Stress Doesn’t Have to Result in Burnout

Church Discipline without a Lawsuit

J. Carl Laney

Places in the Heart Makes a Place for Religion

Refiner’s Fire: A Christ for the Crowds

Julia Duin

The Toughest Virtue

Gale D. Webbe

What Does a Weaker Brother Look Like?

Philip Yancey

Finding the Real John Wesley

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‘The Image of God Was Always In My Mother’

Kate Lucky

Responses to our Sept-Oct issue.

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Disintegration is the Church’s Greatest Threat

Sho Baraka

A note from Mission Advancement about the Big Tent Initiative and One Kingdom Campaign.

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News

Church Construction Increases Since 2022

Daniel Silliman

And other news from around the world.

An illustration of a man about to be struck by the gavel of justice, shaped like a church pulpit.

Once Lost, Then Found, Then Judged

Daniel Silliman

History is full of Christians trying to figure out if other Christians really experienced the saving work they say they did.

A focused man reading as he climbs a staircase made of books.

Public Theology Project

The Church Needs to Recover the Primacy of God’s Word.

Russell Moore

A post-literate culture cannot afford a post-biblical church.

A large branch of flowers growing out of an open book; the book also serves as a space where people gather, talk, and read.

The Great Omission

Jen Wilkin

With busy schedules, chatty small groups, and personalized quiet times, we’ve neglected the rigor of learning the Bible.

An illustration of an immigrant woman and her daughter amid barbed wire, being watched by a police officer.

Raids Are a Perilous Substitute for Reform

Andy Olsen

Anti-immigrant policies helped spark the American Revolution. Today, they are deforming our national conscience.

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Testimony

I Ran from God and My Jewish Identity. Then Someone Handed Me the New Testament.

Aaron Abramson

Aaron Abramson served in the Israel Defense Forces before abandoning his faith and wandering the word in search of meaning. What he found transformed his life.

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