Cloud of Witnesses

A snapshot of Christian witness in the world (as it appeared in our April issue).

EGYPT: Islamist terrorists in Libya sought attention in filming the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians. And they got it—for the martyrs, honored with an icon (above) and a day in the Coptic church calendar. The Bible Society of Egypt transformed the ISIS propaganda video’s “two rows by the sea” into its largest outreach in 130 years. In 1.65 million tracts on God’s promise of blessing amid suffering, it asked: “Who fears the other? The row in orange, watching paradise open? Or the row in black, with minds evil and broken?”

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.

Christianity Today April, 2015

Cover Story

Meet the Women Apologists

Andrea Palpant Dilley

Cover Story

Oxford's Unapologetic Female Apologist

My Top 5 Books on Nonviolence

The Morning After the Pentecostal Murders

Lisa Ann Cockrel in Stockholm

Getting Brutally Honest with God

Tremper Longman III

Review

The Civil War Is More Than a Historical Fascination

Robert Tracy McKenzie

News

Messianic Judaism Flourishes in Holocaust Towns

Lincoln Brunner in Kiev

Review

Why the Time Is Ripe for Pro-Life Reform

John G. Stackhouse Jr.

Boring Work: Good for the Soul

The Best Worship Music You Won't Hear on Christian Radio

Reading Luke Through Latin American Eyes

Interview by Gary Burge

Which False Teachings Are Evangelical Christians Most Tempted to Believe In?

Cherith Fee Nordling, Marguerite Shuster, Amos Yong

Revival 100 Years After the Armenian Genocide

By Ann-Margret Hovsepian in Yerevan, Armenia

Testimony

Unplanned Pregnancy, Unplanned Grace

Christine A. Scheller

What to Do with the Dull Parts of Scripture

Editorial

There's Still Power in the Blood

Why Stretch Marks Remind Me of the Resurrection

Sharon Hodde Miller

News

Gleanings: April 2015

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New & Noteworthy Books

News

Should Unaccredited Bible Colleges Be Allowed to Grant Degrees?

Compiled by Morgan Lee

Women Who 'Prophesy'

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Join CT for a Live Book Awards Event Now

A conversation with Russell Moore, Book of the Year winner Gavin Ortlund, and Award of Merit winner Brad East.

A song book made from paper pieces of different Christmas carols.

Excerpt

There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Proper’ Christmas Carol

As we learn from the surprising journeys of several holiday classics, the term defies easy definition.

A baby hand in hay

Advent Calls Us Out of Our Despair

Joni Eareckson Tada

Sitting in the dark helps us truly appreciate the light.

A painting of Mary listening to Jesus teach.

Glory to God in the Highest Calling

Sandra Glahn and Seana Scott

Motherhood is honorable, but being a disciple of Jesus is every woman’s primary biblical vocation.

An abstract advent wreath and candles

Advent Doesn’t Have to Make Sense

Christian Gonzalez Ho

As a curator, I love how contemporary art makes the world feel strange. So does the story of Jesus’ birth.

The three wise men looking at the star of Bethlehem

Public Theology Project

The Star of Bethlehem Is a Zodiac Killer

How Christmas upends everything that draws our culture to astrology.

The tower at the entrance to Pepperdine University glows red-orange as vegetation around it burns in the night.

News

As Malibu Burns, Pepperdine Withstands the Fire

University president praises the community’s “calm resilience” as students and staff shelter in place in fireproof buildings.

My Favorite Books of 2024

The Russell Moore Show

My Favorite Books of 2024

Ashley Hales, CT’s editorial director for print, and Russell discuss this year’s reads.