Book Briefs: August 10, 1984

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Christianity Today August 10, 1984

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Cover Story

Hard Questions for Robert Schuller About Sin and Self-Esteem

Interview with Kenneth S. Kantzer, David F. Wells, and V. Gilbert Beers

Sam’s Son

A Theologian Looks at Schuller

Kenneth S. Kantzer with Paul W. Fromer

Schuller Clarifies His View of Sin

Robert Schuller

Eutychus and His Kin: August 10, 1984

Schuller Clarifies His View of Sin: Four Views of Sin Are Popular Today. Which Is Right?

Robert Schuller

After-School Orphans: More and More Children Are Taking Care of Themselves While Parents Work. But at What Cost?

Dean Merrill

Can We Transcend the Nuclear Stalemate?: Our Task Is Not to Wrestle with the World on Its Own Terms, but to Transform It from Above

Stephen L. Talbott

Evangelicalism: Accommodating, or Just Adapting?

Three Summer Movies

Gop Spurns Bid for U.S. Senate by Conservative Southern Baptist

Financial Crisis Grips Oral Roberts’s Medical Complex

America’s First ‘Christian’ Bank Goes out of Business

Religious Groups Seek Protection from New Civil Rights Measure

Beth Spring

A Severe Famine Threatens to Kill Millions in Africa

Tim Stafford

A Pastor Describes Brutal Conditions in Cuban Prisons

Janelle Conaway

State Appeals Court Says Pastors Must Stand Trial for Clergy Malpractice

Lloyd Billingsley

Dorothy, My Sister-in-Love

Walter Wangerin

Refiner’s Fire: Streisand and Women’s Ordination

Stephen Wiest

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Magyar gathers coalition to defeat Orban, Reps. Swalwell and Gonzales resign for sexual assault allegations, and the Trump Jesus AI meme.

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An Unsung Iran Peace Initiative Grapples with Failure

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For 20 years, Mennonites fostered dialogue between North America and the Islamic republic. Their conversations couldn’t stop the bombs.

Three books on a cream background.

Review

A Map Through Natural Theology

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Three theology books on natural theology, the transfiguration of Christ, and a classic must-read.

A world map and a black congregation.

Black Immigrants Are Diversifying the American Church

Jessica Janvier

African Americans have long ministered to Black people abroad. Those communities are now increasingly migrating to the US.

The Artemis astronauts hug as they are welcomed back to Houston at Ellington Airport on Saturday, April 11, 2026.

Artemis II Showed Us What Integrity Looks Like

Ashley Hales

Four astronauts remind us that our humanity is both a gift from God and a joy.

A pair of glasses with blurry churches in the lenses.

Church-Crisis Content Didn’t Help Me

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It offered the certitude of a pat narrative when what I needed was music and literature to interrogate myself.

Johnny Reeves, a JAARS Pilot in Papua New Guinea, bringing in supplies.

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Strait of Hormuz Closure Is Hurting Global Aid

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Christian aviation and relief groups say increased fuel costs and shipping disruptions make it difficult for them to help the world’s most vulnerable.

Paintings from Exodus.

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Exodus’s midwives can teach us a lot about how to fear God more than the king.

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