Book Briefs: October 19, 1984

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Christianity Today October 19, 1984

A Christian Musician Awaits Trial in the Soviet Union

Eutychus and His Kin: October 19, 1984

Editorial

Mudslinging in the Sanctuary

“Us” and “Them” within the Church

The Myth of the Generation Gap: Surprising Findings about Adolescents and Their Faith Offer Hope to Parents and Youth Workers

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The Wall of Adventism

Joan Craven

What Seventh-Day Adventists Believe

Leslie R. Keylock

And Justice for All?: Accomplished Constitutional Lawyer William Ball Offers Much-Needed Counsel on Religious Freedom in Education

Election ’84 / Part 2 What the Democrats Believe: Evangelicals Who Agree with the Party on Issues of Poverty and Peace May Not on Abortion and Gay Rights

Where the Democrats Come From

Billy Graham Sees Vitality and Dedication among Russian Christians

Cardboard Culture

Harold O. J. Brown

The Bible Is Marching On

Randy Frame

The New Right Disagrees over Taking Donations from Sun Moon

The Senate Ethics Committee Drops Its Investigation of Mark Hatfield

The Vatican Tries to Rein in a Leading Proponent of Liberation Theology

Leslie R. Keylock

Christian Leaders Take Steps to Combat the Porn Epidemic

Worldwide Church of God Loses a Defamation Suit

Joseph M. Hopkins

The Secret Life of Teenagers

Tim Stafford

Refiner’s Fire: Can There Be Faith in Betrayal?

L. Eugene Startzman

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Being Human

Anxiety, the Nervous System, and Your Window of Tolerance: A Conversation with Lisa Cuss & Clarissa Moll

How your nervous system helps you notice God

Christ and the Adulteress by Peter Bruegel

Blaming Women Harms Us All

Dorothy Littell Greco

When we fail to protect and honor women like Jesus, we all lose.

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Synthetic Love Will Tear Us Apart

When we outsource intimacy to machines, we become what we practice. And we’re practicing the wrong things.

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The Russell Moore Show

N.T. Wright on ‘The Vision of Ephesians’

The professor is in—and he’s talking about Ephesians.

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The Bulletin

Kidnappings in Nigeria, Rep. Greene Resigns, Mamdani Meets Trump

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Persecution in Nigeria, Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns, Mamdani and Trump have a friendly meeting, and listeners give thanks.

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You Know Them As Fantasy Writers. They Were Soldiers Too.

Joseph Loconte

An excerpt from ‘The War for Middle-Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945.’

Our Prayers Don’t Disappear into Thin Air

Bohye Kim

Why Scripture talks of our entreaties to God as rising like incense.

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From Outer Space to Rome

Daniel Silliman

In 1962, CT engaged friends and enemies in the Cold War and the Second Vatican Council.