Book Briefs: November 9, 1984

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Christianity Today November 9, 1984

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?

Finding the Real John Wesley

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Federal agents stand in tear gas and face protesters on Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis on January 24, 2026.

I Trained to Monitor ICE but Found Myself Feeding the Hungry

Elizabeth Berget

Here in Minneapolis, our immigrant neighbors are scared. Local churches like mine are working to meet their needs.

People from the nonprofit organization, AVAAZ, light candles in Belgium beside teddy bears for Ukrainian children who have been kidnapped.

News

An ‘Underground Railroad’ to Rescue Abducted Ukrainian Kids

Russia has taken tens of thousands of children, who end up in reeducation facilities, military schools, or illegal adoptions.

A black man and woman praying.

Young Christians Can Stay in the Black Church

Michael Lyles II

A legalistic congregation and my own spiritual immaturity made me sour on church. But God and another congregation drew me back.

Three people in a deep conversation.

How to Witness Well in Post-Christian America

Darrell Bock

We must engage the truth of the gospel with relationship and respect.

The Russell Moore Show

Beth Moore on Walking with God

Why walk with God when answers don’t come quickly—and sometimes don’t come at all?

Women in recovery in the women's ward at Karanda Mission Hospital in Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe.

News

Zimbabwe Christians Push Back Against Proposed Abortion Legalization

Emmanuel Nwachukwu

One woman warned the senate of a “silent aftermath they will never legislate away.”

The book cover.

Review

Love Thy Dead-for-200-Years Neighbor

Daniel K. Williams

God and Country argues Christians studying the past must be charitable to its flawed inhabitants.

The book cover

Excerpt

The First Christian Nation

Mark W. Graham

An excerpt from 30 Key Moments in the History of Christianity.