Before We Were Hipsters

How Christians of the past 50 years have garnered countercultural street cred.

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See Brett McCracken’s cover story on “Hipster Faith,” CT also posted “The Tricky H-Word” and “Stuff Christian Hipsters Like” today.

You can also take the Are You a Christian Hipster?” test at hipsterchristianity.com.

CT previously spotlighted the future(s) of missions, health-care reform, Africa, American Idol, Haiti, Robert Park, persecution, Supreme Court and crosses, international religious liberty advocates, and church violence.

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September

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Cover Story

Hipster Faith

Brett McCracken

In the Shadow of Mount Hood

Frank A. James III

Wilson's Bookmarks

John Wilson

The Most Diverse Gathering Ever

John W. Kennedy

Stop Browbeating

Interview by Ted Olsen

Dwelling in Heaven's Suburbs

Review

Tragic Humanism

Christopher Benson

News

In Jesus' Name

Compiled by Ruth Moon

The Maverick

Tim Stafford

News

Go Figure

Compiled by Ted Olsen

News

A Ministry Grows in Brooklyn

Tony Carnes in New York City

Review

A Gifting Child

Amy Julia Becker

The Apostle of the Golden Age

John Wilson

Books to Note

Editorial

An Equal-Opportunity Destroyer

A Christianity Today Editorial

Participant First

Mark Moring

Faith Unbound

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway

Sex Offenders in the Pew

Marian V. Liautaud

My Top 5 Books on The Problem of Evil

John Stackhouse

News

Culling the Flock

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Readers Write

The Ethics of Promoting Democracy

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Chris Seiple, and Will Willimon

Excerpt

Under the Influence

Monica Ganas

News

Delegates Denied

Charles Honey

The Tricky H-Word

Ted Olsen, managing editor for news & online journalism

Stuff Christian Hipsters Like

News

Regent U. Struggles to Stay Afloat (*Updated), Court Rules that Feeding Poor Is Not Religious, and Other News

The Refugee Pastor That Could

Marshall Allen

News

Passages

News

Scholars and 'Snake-Handlers'

Bobby Ross Jr.

News

Quotation Marks

Compiled by Ted Olsen

Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Great Recession

Gary Moore

News

Dispute in Dearborn

Trevor Persaud

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Dorothy Littel Greco

When we fail to protect and honor women like Jesus, we all lose.

A heart with lots of cracks in it.

Synthetic Love Will Tear Us Apart

Chris Poblete

When we outsource intimacy to machines, we become what we practice. And we’re practicing the wrong things.

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The Russell Moore Show

N.T. Wright on The Vision of Ephesians

The Professor is in – and he’s talking about Ephesians.

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Bohye Kim

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Daniel Silliman

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Meet CT’s New President

The Bulletin with Nicole Martin and Walter Kim

Nicole Martin seeks to mend evangelical divides and uphold biblical truth.

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Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Persecution in Nigeria, Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns, Mamdani and Trump have a friendly meeting, and listeners give thanks.