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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.

February

Christianity Today February, 2009

Cover Story

Sci-Fi's Brave New World

James A. Herrick

News

California's Temper Tantrum

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway

Reverence for the Mystery

John Calvin with Knox Bucer-Beza

My Top 5 Fiction Books for the Soul

Review

Novel Teachers

Brandon O'Brien

Searching for Radical Faith

Praying 'Thy Kingdom Come ...'

Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman

Q&A: Louie Giglio

Interview by Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

News

Yechiel Eckstein: Evangelicals’ Favorite Rabbi

John W. Kennedy in New York City

Editorial

Who Do You Think You Are?

A Christianity Today Editorial

Review

Making Movies to Change the World

CDs on The List

Review

Live: Hope at the Hideout

Bibliophiles We

Meager Harvest

Books Uncommon and Offbeat

John Wilson, editor of 'Books and Culture'

News

Political Exile

Charles Colson with Anne Morse

Memo to Worship Bands

John G. Stackhouse Jr.

Review

Learning from Secular Nations

Lisa Graham McMinn

News

Quotation Marks

Compiled by Ted Olsen

News

Smuggling Debate

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

2009 Christianity Today Book Awards

News

Gas-Powered Gospels

News

Get 'Lost'

News

Atheists' Outreach

Laurie Fortunak

News

News Briefs: February 01, 2009

News

Passages

Compiled by CT Staff

News

Go Figure

Compiled by Ted Olsen

Bush's Faith-Based Legacy

Tony Carnes with additional reporting by Sarah Pulliam

News

Fault Line of Faith

Compass Direct News

News

Prosperity Gospel on Skid Row

News

Readers Write

News

Stocks Squeeze Seminaries

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Join CT for a Live Book Awards Event

A conversation with Russell Moore, Book of the Year winner Gavin Ortlund, and Award of Merit winner Brad East.

A song book made from paper pieces of different Christmas carols.

Excerpt

There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Proper’ Christmas Carol

As we learn from the surprising journeys of several holiday classics, the term defies easy definition.

A baby hand in hay

Advent Calls Us Out of Our Despair

Joni Eareckson Tada

Sitting in the dark helps us truly appreciate the light.

A painting of Mary listening to Jesus teach.

Glory to God in the Highest Calling

Sandra Glahn and Seana Scott

Motherhood is honorable, but being a disciple of Jesus is every woman’s primary biblical vocation.

An abstract advent wreath and candles

Advent Doesn’t Have to Make Sense

Christian Gonzalez Ho

As a curator, I love how contemporary art makes the world feel strange. So does the story of Jesus’ birth.

News

Una solución para el agobio de la temporada navideña

The three wise men looking at the star of Bethlehem

Public Theology Project

The Star of Bethlehem Is a Zodiac Killer

How Christmas upends everything that draws our culture to astrology.

The tower at the entrance to Pepperdine University glows red-orange as vegetation around it burns in the night.

News

As Malibu Burns, Pepperdine Withstands the Fire

University president praises the community’s “calm resilience” as students and staff shelter in place in fireproof buildings.