Book Briefs: March 2, 1984

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Christianity Today March 2, 1984

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Reagan Stirs the Broadcasters with an Evangelical Speech

Eutychus and His Kin: March 2, 1984

Editorial

The IRS Is Not Always the Enemy

A Climate of Mind

Looking at the Death Penalty from behind Bars: Two Prisoners Offer an “Inside” Opinion

Richard Peck And Roger Todd

Christian Publishing: Too Many Books & Too Few Classics?: Christian Writers Often Express Their Theological Concepts without Emotion, Drama, or Tension

Philip Yancey

We Are in Love with Our Own Destruction: But Faith Is an Oasis Where Green Things Can Grow

Frederick Buechner

Did You Hear the One about Cardinal Sin …: … or the Nurse Named Basin … or the Doctor Named Bonecutter?

Kathryn Lindskoog

Embryo Transfer: A Women Can Now Give Birth to Her Own Stepchild: But What Are the Moral and Legal Implications?

Robert G. Wells

A Royal Reception for Billy Graham in England

Tom Minnery

Here’s a Novel Way to Help Put a Student through College

Dan Pawley

Refiner’s Fire: The Generous Critic: John Updike

Rodney Clapp

A Virginia College Bans an Antiabortion Painting

Randy Frame

Churches’ Support Falters When Their Workers Organize

Steve Rabey

Volunteers Receive Federal Aid to Help Abused Children

Beth Spring

What Is the Best Systematic Theology for a Pastor or Lay Person?

In Wonder of the Psalms

Herbert Lockyer

How Dirty Jokes and the Fear of Death Prove There Is a Heaven

Philip Yancey

Controversial Theologian Hans Küng Affirms Faith in Life after Death

Hans Küng

College Students and the Church Can Get Together

Scott Hawkins

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Died: Christian Publishing Executive Robert Wolgemuth

Kelsey Kramer McGinnis

As author, agent, and former Thomas Nelson president, Wolgemuth shaped the Christian book world for decades.

Donald Trump speaks at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Policy Conference in Washington, DC on June 22, 2024.

It’s Not ‘Christian Nationalism.’ It’s Conservative Identity Politics.

George Yancey

Academics and pundits critiquing evangelical voters have misdiagnosed their behavior.

Analysis

This Year, Protections for the Unborn Won’t Come from Washington

Daniel K. Williams

The White House and Congress seem uninterested in new pro-life measures. But crisis pregnancy centers will continue their mission, one life at a time.