Book Briefs: February 3, 1984

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Christianity Today February 3, 1984

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What Hollywood Doesn’t Know about Romantic Love

Rodney Clapp

Eutychus and His Kin: February 3, 1984

Editorial

The God of the NCC Lectionary Is Not the God of the Bible

A Guest Editorial By Ben Patterson

Cavalier Revision

Living in a World with Thinking Machines: Intelligence Separates People from Animals. Very Soon It Will Not Separate People from Machines. How Should Christians Respond?

Allen Emerson And Cheryl Forbes

Exploring the Soul of the New Machine

You Can Buck the System and Win: Zwingli Did It 500 Years Ago

Sherwood Eliot Wirt

Zwingli Was the Reformation’s Most Gifted Musican: But He Banished Music from the Church

William Lock

How Many Hats Does Your Pastor Wear?: Eight Experts Suggest How Ministers Can Wear Them Better

What Is the Major Shift in Theological Focus?

Robert K. Johnston

Does the Bible Really Say All that about Romance?

Rodney Clapp

When Doubt Can Help You: It’s Too Bad Christians Have Given It a Bad Name

A. J. Conyers

Evangelical Scholars Remove Gundry for His Views on Matthew

Leslie R. Keylock

Churches Might Get a Reprieve from Paying Social Security

Beth Spring

Millions Respond to National Evangelistic Media Blitz

Randy Frame

Can a Deaf Mute Jew Become a Christian? A Court Says Yes

Religious Freedom in China—Is It Fact or Fiction?

Refiner’s Fire: Must Art Be “Christian” to Be Good?

Gene Edward Veith

Make the Most of What God Has Given You!

Philip Yancey

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An illustration of the beast from Revelation.

Public Theology Project

The Antichrist Hides in Plain Sight at Christmas

Russell Moore

First-century Bethlehem is not an escape from all the political chaos; it’s the epicenter.

A school desk and laptop.

The School Tech Situation Is Worse than You Think

Carrie McKean in Midland, Texas

There are still good teachers doing good work. But they can only do so much when state directives and district resources push them online.

A baseball hit and government building.

Geoff Duncan Brings Baseball Strategy to Halls of Power

The Just Life with Geoff Duncan

How a former MLB player found God and a calling for civic service.

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The Russell Moore Show

Andrew Peterson on Beholding the Lamb of God for Over 25 Years

Gather round ye listeners come…Andrew Peterson is back.

Pieces of illustrations from Jane Eyre.

Why I Need Jane Eyre

Wendy Kiyomi

The heroine reminds me what it means to be beloved as I raise three children who were abandoned like her.

A family helping a foster child.

News

Trump’s Foster Care Order Sides with Christian Families

Harvest Prude

The executive order reverses a Biden-era push for LGBTQ policies that shut Christians out of fostering and adoption, but its legal mechanism is left vague.

There's a kid and a teenager isolated in a glass cube. Outside, there's a doctor looking at the kid, holding a syringe, like he was was ready to complete his task, but got stopped. On the side of the teenager are other teenagers, showing him their phones.

The Bulletin

Social Media Bans, Hep-B Vaccine, Notre Dame Snubbed, and the 1939 Project

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Australia bans social media for kids, CDC’s recommendations change, college football uproar, and the far right lens on history.

A manger on a red spiral background

A Christmas Conspiracy for Zoomer Men

Luke Simon

They’re not wrong to believe in a contested world. But they’ve misidentified the villains.

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