Passages

Deaths, retirements, and other changes in the church and the world.

Censured • Jane Adams Spahr, retired Presbyterian Church (USA) minister, for performing same-sex marriages in 2008. The ruling came from the PC(USA)’s highest court.

Retiring • Arlin and Rebekah Horton, founders and leaders of textbook giant A Beka Book, Pensacola Christian College, and other ministries.

Murdered • Robinson Cavilcanti, bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Recife, Brazil, by his 29-year-old adopted son. Cavilcanti had close ties to conservative U.S. Anglicans.

Copyright © 2012 Christianity Today. Click for reprint information.

Related Elsewhere:

See Christianity Today‘s news section and liveblog for more news updates.

Also in this issue

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.

April

Christianity Today April, 2012

News

Is the Lord's Prayer a Christian Prayer?

Compiled by Ruth Moon

News

Nontraditional Believers Recover Christian Community

Melody J. Wachsmuth in Zagreb, Croatia

Defending Scripture. Literally.

News

Violence in Nigeria: Breaking the Country's Fatal Deadlock

Sunday Agang in Kagoro, Nigeria

Discipling the Eyes Through Art in Worship

W. David O. Taylor

Review

Polarizing Politics by Defending the Declaration

Chuck Colson: Evangelicals Should Be Uniters, Not Dividers

Chuck Colson & Timothy George

'God Is Not a Genie in a Bottle': Ways We Misuse the Bible

Interview by Owen Strachan

My Top 5 Books on Christianity in North Korea

Review

Tolerance—Or Else: Coercive Attempts to Impose Secular Beliefs

Mollie Ziegler Hemingway

Editorial

How Pastors' Ponzis Affect Our Gospel Witness

A Christianity Today Editorial

News

Mass Appeal: Evangelicals Copy More of Catholic Playbook to Oppose Contraception Ruling

Sarah Pulliam Bailey

Review

Blue Like Jazz

Do Pets Go to Heaven?

Wesley Smith, Karen Swallow Prior, and Ben DeVries

Becoming Donald Miller

What Good Grief Looks Like When a Daughter Dies

Ben Witherington

Excerpt

Connecting Christ

News

Sex Sect The Family Cleans House

James A. Beverley

News

Go Figure

Compiled by Ted Olsen

Jesus Disappoints Everyone

Proof of a Good God: 'Crucified Under Pontius Pilate'

News

Quotation Marks

Compiled by Ted Olsen

News

The Problem 'Son': Debate Continues Over Translating 'Son of God' for Muslims

Letters to the Editor

Journaling Grief: How Web-Based Publishing Is Changing Everything

Jesus Through Jewish Eyes

Books to Note

Wilson's Bookmarks

Employers Can Limit Employees' Speech, TBN’s Lawsuit, Bar Boots Catholic Group, and More News

News

Contract Concern: USAID Policy on Hiring Alarms Charities

Review

October Baby

Jeremy Lin, Tim Tebow, Josh Hamilton: Muscular Christianity's Newest Heroes

Interview: Why Sarah Macintosh Ran Away from CCM and Went Back

Review

Wrecking Ball

Review

The Clearing

Kristin Garrett

Review

Feathers & Twine

Review

Songs of Praise & Scorn

Jeremy V. Jones

Our Latest

Anglican bishop from Fort Worth Texas shown in black and white obit-style image.

News

Died: Jack Iker, Anglican Who Drew the Line at Women’s Ordination

Daniel Silliman

The Texas bishop fought a bitter legal battle with the Episcopal Church and won.

A duel between two people with blank social media profiles for heads.

Why Can’t We Talk to Each Other Anymore?

Kaitlyn Schiess

Online interactions are draining us of energy to have hard conversations in person.

A frowning face with a yellow, pink, and green layer

Church Disappointment Is Multilayered

Interview by Harvest Prude

Jude 3 Project founder Lisa Fields speaks about navigating frustrations with God and fellow believers.

Roz, a robot, touches her forehead with Brightbill, the gosling, in The Wild Robot

The Robot Will Lie Down With the Gosling

In “The Wild Robot,” hospitality reprograms relationships.

Priscilla Shirer in front of a window

How Priscilla Shirer Surrenders All

Rachel Pfeiffer

The best-selling Bible teacher writes about putting God first in her life and how healthy Christian discipleship requires sacrifice

The Bulletin

Second Hand News

The Bulletin talks presidential podcasts, hurricane rumors, and the spiritual histories of Israel and Iran.

People in the 1970s walking out of a church

You Don’t Need a Rule of Life

What you need is a church.

Churches with different scenes of Revelation in them on a black background

Which Church in Revelation Is Yours Like?

From the lukewarm Laodicea to the overachieving Ephesus, these seven ancient congregations struggled with relatable problems.