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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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.

Christianity Today September, 2010

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Cover Story

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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The Myth of Tech Utopianism

Ashley Hales

What a book on feminism helped me realize about our digital age.

Review

Don’t Erase Augustine’s Africanness

Philip Jenkins

A new book recovers the significance of the church father’s geographic and cultural roots.

News

The Hymns Still Rise in Rwanda, but They Do So Quietly Now

AJ Johnson

Why one-size-fits-all regulations are sending churches underground.

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What I Learned Living Among Leprosy

Ann Harikeerthan

My 16 years at a rural hospital in India showed me what healing and restoration in Christian community look like.

The Russell Moore Show

Jonathan Haidt’s Newest Thoughts on Technology, Anxiety, and the War for Our Attention

As the digital world shifts at breakneck speed, Haidt offers new analysis on what he’s witnessing on the front lines.

The Bulletin

An Alleged Drug Boat Strike, the Annunciation Catholic School Shooting, and the Rise of Violence in America

Mike Cosper

The Bulletin discusses the attack on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat and the recent school shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in the context of politics of violence.