Passages

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

Nominated • Jason Meyer, as successor to pastor John Piper at Bethlehem Baptist Church. Meyer, 36, is a New Testament professor at Bethlehem College and Seminary.

Selected • Matt Chandler, as president of the Acts 29 church planting network. He replaces co-founder Mark Driscoll, who also withdrew from the Gospel Coalition.

Died • Robert J. Lamont, former pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh and founding board member of Christianity Today, on March 26 in Vero Beach, Florida. He was 92.

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May

Christianity Today May, 2012

My Top 5 Books On Fatherhood

Getting to the Crux of Calvary

Works and Words: Why You Can't Preach the Gospel with Deeds

From Powerlifter to Powerless

Kathleen Anderson

Throwing Christ Over the Cliff

Leslie Leyland Fields

Review

Brave New Web: Navigating the Conflict Between Pluralism and Freedom

Joseph Knippenberg

Teach Us to Pray: Learning from Prayer Partners in History

Interview by Elesha Coffman

News

Quebec: Canada's Prodigal Province

Ann-Margret Hovsepian in Montreal

News

Black Church Barrios: African American Churches Adapt to Latino Neighbors

Touched by Jesus: Healing Body and Soul

Miracles in Mozambique: How Mama Heidi Reaches the Abandoned

News

Marketing Martyrs: Does Iranian Pastor's Theology Impact Advocacy on His Behalf?

Helping Urbana Find Its Voice

News

Should Churches Halt Missions Trips to Mexico?

Compiled by Ruth Moon

Wilson's Bookmarks

The Choir's Steve Hindalong: Celebrating Sobriety

News

Sensation Before Scholarship: Gospel Fragment Tantalizes Experts

Private Faith and Public Policy: Where Obama and Santorum Agree

Letters to the Editor

Forced Out: Pastors' Fight and Flight

Should We Stop Child Placement Programs if We're Required to Work with Same-Sex Couples?

Paul Shrier, Lynne Marie Kohm, and Ryan T. Anderson

Review

Dollars and Moral Sense: What Money Can't Buy

News

Quotation Marks

Compiled by Ted Olsen

Excerpt

Subversive Kingdom

Review

Journeys of Faith

Michael McGowan

News

Foreign Aid Cut from Religious Charities, Authorities Target Official Churches, Religious Quota Creates Controversy, and More News

Review

Rhetorical Darwinism

John Mark Reynolds

Review

How God Became King

News

Migrant Ministries: European Churches Revitalized by Asian Diaspora

News

Go Figure

Compiled by Ted Olsen

Review

Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us

Editorial

The ‘Monsters’ Among Us: Child Sex Abusers in Our Midst

A Christianity Today Editorial

Why We Need 'Community'

Q & A: Ross Douthat on Rooting Out Bad Religion

Interview by Sarah Pulliam Bailey

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Review

The Internet’s Sins Are Our Sins. But It Shouldn’t Escape All Blame.

Bonnie Kristian

A critic of tech panic forgets that our tools shape us just as we shape them.

A house on a rock with ocean waves around it and a starry galaxy sky behind it.

Heaven Is A Homeplace

Amanda Held Opelt

Hurricane Helene devastated the land I love. My pain points me toward what’s to come.

A rundown windmill and building in a desert

Review

We Have Never Been Deplorable

A new book critiques elites’ incurious accounts of the American right and illuminates their complicity in our social breakdown.

A lamppost on a red background.

You Are the Light of the Public Square

American Christians can illuminate our country’s politics—if we engage with moral imagination, neighborliness, boldness, and humility.

Where Ya From?

From Pain to Empowerment with Orsika Fejer-Baas

Orsika Fejer-Baas shares her story of resilience and overcoming domestic abuse.

The Bulletin

October 7, 2023 Remembrance with Yossi Halevi

The Bulletin remembers the tragic events in Israel on October 7, 2023 and the year of turmoil that has come after.

A sign of Charity Commission on a brick arch

News

UK Regulators Investigate Barnabas Aid over Reports of Misused Funds

The charity is under an “unprecedented level of scrutiny on our financial processes” after founders and top leaders were suspended.

Global Methodist bishops join in singing.

News

Global Methodist Bishops to Dance

Daniel Silliman in San José, Costa Rica

The new denomination tussles over its authority structure—but also finds surprising points of unity.