Christianity Today

April, 2004

Volume 48, Number 4

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There's just Something about this Man: But Bill Gaither insists its not about him.

Cover Story

Cover Story

There’s Just Something About This Man

Mark Allen Powell

Bill Gaither insists it’s not about him. And nobody seems to disagree.

Features

Emerging from the Shadows

Runo Samuelson in Baghdad

House-church Christians start renting buildings, and dream of evangelism.

Faith-based Child Abuse?

Corrie Cutrer

Shamblin defends Atlanta couple charged with murder.

You Are or You Aren’t

Answered by Erik Thoennes

Are some people lost just a little bit in the same way that others are saved only as through fire?

Healing Genocide

Timothy C. Morgan

Ten years after the slaughter, Rwandans begin to mend their torn nation with a justice that is both biblical and African.

Life Imitates Art

Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

Unveiling is a commendable debut novel.

Mixing Religion and Politics

David Karanja in Nairobi

Churches attempt to overcome constitutional stalemate

My Two Dads? Not in Florida

John W. Kennedy

U.S. Circuit Court upholds ban on gay adoption

Decalogue Debacle

What we can learn from a monument now locked in an Alabama closet.

Scholarship Wars

Sheryl Henderson Blunt in Washington, with 'CT' staff reports

Supreme Court says states can deny public funds to some religious students.

Shaping Up Flabby Finances

Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

The basic money challenge is saying no.

Spotlight on Sexism

Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

Exploring the rise of evangelical feminism.

State of the Unions

Mark Stricherz in Washington

Administration proposes plan to teach couples relationship skills

The <em>Christianity Today</em> News Wrap

CT Staff

Responding to cloning, banning religious apparel in France, and a ponzi scheme

The Language of Sin

Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

Why Sin Matters says sin and grace are part of the same story.

The Missions of Business

Reviewed by John P. Cragin

What can happen when entrepreneurs think they are missionaries first.

A Justice that Restores

An interview with Howard Zehr

A method for bringing victims and offenders together.

A Captivating Vision

An interview with Paul Hattaway

Why Chinese house churches may just end up fulfilling the Great Commission.

Q & A: Bill Frist

Interview by Tony Carnes

The Senate Majority Leader on key moral issues.

Forgiveness 101

Timothy C. Morgan

Border Crackdown

Timothy R. Callahan

Government seeks to stamp out North Korea refugee problem.

Amending Marriage

Tony Carnes

Christians in Massachusetts are playing catch-up to protect the age-old institution.

Lip Service

Jeff M. Sellers

Vietnam’s guarantees of religious freedom are not fooling anybody.

A Bridge Over Troubled People

Deann Alford

Sinners of all stripes find a church home under the I-35.

News

News

Quotation Marks

Recent comments by Walter Cronkite, Bush, and an evangelizing pilot

News

An Arts Festival in the Heartland

By Mark Allen Powell

Bill Gaither has succeeded in putting together an event that increases Christ through the performers’ diminishment.

News

Passages

By CT Staff

Deaths, promotions, and other tidbits from the religion world.

News

Witnessing with The Passion

Ken Walker

Christians gear up to evangelize – with help from Mel Gibson.

Wire Story

Plan B (for Bad)

Lisa Griffin and Baptist Press

Christians fight to keep ‘morning-after-pill’ under the counter.

News

Go Figure

Recent quotes on sex ed., church receptionists, and Bible stories.

Reviews

Review

Joan of Arcadia

Douglas Leblanc

A high school girl further increases God’s prime-time exposure.

Views

He Is Risen

Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman

Easter quotations to stir heart and mind.

Evangelical Drift

Outsiders say we’re the status quo. Our call is to prove them wrong.

Pilgrims to Nowhere

Freedom isn’t much good if you don’t have a sense of direction.

Editorial

‘The Longest Hatred’

A Christianity Today Editorial

Evangelicals must fight the resurgence of anti-Semitism.

Editorial

Crash-Helmet Christianity

A Christianity Today Editorial

Talking about the real Jesus is a dangerous thing.

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