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YouVersion’s Volunteer Army

With more than 22 million users on mobile platforms, and millions more on its website, it has unusual success in creating a massive participatory system like Wikipedia or YouTube.

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Previous articles on church life and technology include:

Multi-Site Churches Go Interstate | Megachurches expand across state lines. (June 27, 2011)

Should Multisite Campuses Be Church Plants Instead? | Church leaders and observers weigh in on a current debate. (September 29, 2011)

The Art of Cyber Church | Joel Hunter is known by many as part of President Obama’s inner circle of pastors. Fewer know him as one of America’s most innovative church planters. (September 16, 2009)

High-Tech Circuit Riders | Satellite churches are discovering a new way to grow the body of Christ. (October 31, 2005)

CT previously spotlighted Osama bin Laden’s death, Reformed hip-hop, church value, Christian names, how evangelicals give, evangelical vs. mainline politics, today’s pilgrims, President Obama’s faith, 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.

Cover Story

Refocusing on the Family

Sarah Pulliam Bailey

My Top 5 Books On Heaven

Paul Enns

Jesus: Democratic King

John Witte Jr.

Joy in the Midst of Terror

Interview by Joe Carter

Back to the Garden

Tony Carnes

City Parish: An Australian Builds NYC Networks

Mark Moring

The Power and the Glamour

The Paul We Think We Know

Timothy Gombis

News

Youth Movement: Finns Seek Renewal

Ruth Moon

Review

Picturing Paradise: A Review of 'Heaven in the American Imagination'

Bill Walker

Dying Decisions: Should Relatives Intervene?

Dennis Sullivan, Rob Moll, and Robert Orr

A Second-Coming Christian

Harry Potter Is Here to Stay

John Granger

News

A Liberating Woman: A Reflection on the Founder of Christians for Biblical Equality

Elaine Storkey

Review

Common Grace and Amazing Grace: A Review of David Brooks's 'The Social Animal'

Books to Note

Trevin Wax

India's Grassroots Revival

Tim Stafford

News

Syria's Christians Back Assad

Dale Gavlak in Amman, Jordan, and Beirut, Lebanon, and Timothy C. Morgan

Readers Write

Excerpt

God Behaving Badly

David T. Lamb

Q & A: Bishop Kallistos Ware on the Fullness and the Center

News

Go Figure

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Ministerial Murkiness: Biggest Religion Case in 20 Years?

Ken Walker

A Change of Focus

Family Talk, Family Business

Sarah Pulliam Bailey

News

Christian President Retains Office, Pastor Kidnapped in Mexico, & Other News

News

Passages

News

Quotation Marks

News

Should Marital Infidelity Disqualify a Candidate from Office?

Compiled by Ruth Moon

News

Multi-Site Churches Go Interstate

Bob Smietana

News

Renewal Groups Strategize after the PC(USA) Drops Celibacy Clause for Gay Clergy

Bobby Ross Jr.

Editorial

Harold Camping Is (Sort of) Right

A Christianity Today Editorial

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Utah Flocks to Crusade Event at Campus Where Charlie Kirk Was Killed

Evangelicals take the stage for worship and altar calls in the Mormon-majority state.

The Just Life with Benjamin Watson

Jasmine Crowe-Houston: Love and Feed Your Neighbor

Reframing hunger as a justice issue, not charity.

Which Topics Are Off Limits at Your Dinner Table?

Christine Jeske

A Christian anthropologist explains why we should talk about hard things and how to do it.

Are the Public Schools Falling Apart?

We need Christians to engage thoughtfully in local schools. That starts with understanding the problems.

God Loves Our Middling Worship Music

Songwriting might be the community-building project your church needs right now.

Black Greek Life Faces a Christian Exodus

Alyssa Rhodes

Believers are denouncing historical fraternities and sororities that have been beacons of progress.

Public Theology Project

The Church Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Prepare Us for the Epstein Files

The path to justifying predatory behavior often follows the same seven steps. We can respond differently.

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