Book Briefs: November 9, 1984

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Christianity Today November 9, 1984

Former Reformed Church Head Is Nominated for Top Ncc Position

Eutychus and His Kin: November 9, 1984

Editorial

Partisan Politics: Where Does the Gospel Fit?

Learning from the Past

American Methodism at 200: The Case for Hope

Edmund W. Robb, Jr.

Missions on the Move

American Methodism at 200: The Case for Despair

Charles Keysor

American Methodism 200: The Unclaimed Heritage

Dennis E. Kinlaw

Deliver Us from Evil: In Today’s Peril, as in Nazi Germany, the Tempted Christ Stands Close By

Helmut Thielicke

Is Church Discipline an Invasion of Privacy?: Recent Court Cases Force the Question

Lynn Buzzard

Prolife Activists Escalate the War against Abortion

Randy Frame

Southern Baptist ‘Moderates’ Regroup for a 1985 Battle against Inerrantists

James C. Hefley

Some Christian Leaders Want Further Political Activism

Beth Spring

… and Black Americans Are Doing Their Part

Daniel W. Pawley

Preparing for the College Crunch: Wishful Thinking Won’t Send Children to the School of Their Dreams; Thoughtful Planning Will

Leslie R. Keylock

James Robison Leaves Church of Former Baptist President

Humanist Leader Files a Lawsuit against Aspects of Congressional Chaplaincy

Ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses Protest the Group’s Practice of Shunning Former Members

Gordon College and Barrington College Consider a Merger

Evangelical Students Gain Visibility at Yale

Experts Say Clergy Stress Doesn’t Have to Result in Burnout

Church Discipline without a Lawsuit

J. Carl Laney

Places in the Heart Makes a Place for Religion

Refiner’s Fire: A Christ for the Crowds

Julia Duin

The Toughest Virtue

Gale D. Webbe

What Does a Weaker Brother Look Like?

Finding the Real John Wesley

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The recording studio for The Christ podcast.

Review

‘The Christ’ Audio Drama Testifies to Easter

Peter T. Chattaway

You can’t ‘come and see’ this depiction of Jesus, but you can definitely come and hear.

Pope Leo XIV and Pete Hegseth praying.

The Bulletin

Therapists’ Free Speech, Grads’ Careers, and Hegseth’s Imprecatory Prayer

Clarissa Moll, Russell Moore

Supreme Court ruling on conversion therapy ban, high unemployment rates of college grads, and the theology of praying judgment on enemies.

Three books on a green background.

Review

Manifest Destiny Was an Act of Volition

John Fea

Three books on early American history.

The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb by Hans Holbein the Younger.

The Scandal and Grace of Christ’s Saturday in the Grave

Hardin Crowder

How Fyodor Dostoevsky saw the whole story of redemption in Holbein’s painting of the dead Jesus.

The earth and a golden stethoscope.

The Cross that Saves and Heals

Jeremy Treat

Good Friday’s message to a wounded world.

cosmic-plinko

Wonderology

Cosmic Plinko

Are we here by chance?

People attend the Easter drone show at The Church on Masters Road in Manvel, Texas.

News

Churches Try Drones and Skydiving Bunnies for Easter Outreach

“We want to make it about Jesus and getting people excited about the Easter season and going to church somewhere.”

A photo of Benjamin Watson at mic with the title of the podcast The Just Life overlaid on the image

The Just Life with Benjamin Watson

Tony Dungy: What It Costs to Stand for Your Faith

Speaking up for the value of all life in the face of criticism.