Christianity Today

October, 2005

Volume 49, Number 10

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The CT archives are a rich treasure of biblical wisdom and insight from our past. Some things we would say differently today, and some stances we've changed. But overall, we're amazed at how relevant so much of this content is. We trust that you'll find it a helpful resource.

Cover Story

Cover Story

Purpose Driven in Rwanda

Timothy C. Morgan in Kigali, Rwanda

Rick Warren’s sweeping plan to defeat poverty.

Features

Bridging the Ephesians 5 Divide

Sarah Sumner

A fresh look at what this controversial marriage passage says–and doesn’t say.

Raiders of the Lost Pool

Gordon Govier

New finds bolster the historicity of John’s Gospel.

Emerging Solutions–and Problems

Reviewed by Eddie Gibbs

D. A. Carson’s theological analysis of Brian McLaren, et al.

Under Reconstruction

Nate Anderson and Leah Seppanen Anderson

How Eastern Europe’s evangelicals are restoring the church’s vitality.

Salvation sans Jesus

J.I. Packer

If you can’t be saved without Jesus, what about the Old Testament faithful?

Can I Really Expect God to Protect Me?

Nancy Guthrie

Divine promises in the midst of suffering.

The Beginning of Education

The new Bible Literacy Project curriculum is impressive—as far as it is able to go.

The Sunday After

Tony Carnes with Rob Moll

What Gulf churches were doing on the first Lord’s Day after Katrina.

Live Patients & Dead Mice

David A. Prentice

The little-known story of the stem cells that actually work.

Ethics Interrupted

Christine A. Scheller

What does it mean when even embryonic stem-cell researchers have some qualms about their work?

Stemming the Embryonic Tide

Stan Guthrie with Agnieszka Tennant, Sheryl Henderson Blunt in Washington, and Rob James in the United Kingdom

Pro-lifers face a scientific and public relations juggernaut.

Q+A: Ben Kwashi

Deann Alford

An estimated 53,000 Christians and Muslims in Nigeria’s central Plateau state have died since the current round of violence began in Jos on September 7, 2001. Benjamin Kwashi is the Anglican bishop of Jos.

Can We Defeat Poverty?

Tony Carnes in Edinburgh, Scotland

Unless Africa tames corruption, new aid efforts will fail.

Hunting the Big Gazelle

Why Rick Warren may succeed where others failed.

Tithes That Bind

James Jewell

Foursquare Foundation gives grants outside its denomination.

The Making of the Christian

Richard J. Foster and Dallas Willard on the difference between discipleship and spiritual formation.

Jesus Film Ire

Compass Direct

Two Christians murdered apparently for showing the movie.

Flood of Mercy

Manpreet Singh

Christians at the forefront of aid after the deluge in Mumbai.

Compromise’ Settles Nothing

Mark I. Pinsky in Orlando

ELCA assembly opens door to same-sex blessings.

Judge to Diocese: Hands Off

Rebecca Barnes in Louisville

Breakaway California congregation wins church property.

A Question of Repentance

Mary Cagney

Northern Ireland evangelicals: Laying down arms not enough.

Leader’s Death Unsettles Nation

J. Carter Johnson, with Sue Sprenkle

Can peace process work without the strong-arm Garang?

News

News

Quotation Marks

Recent quotes on Pat Robertson, salesman pastors, school prayer extremists, and Intelligent Design.

News

Go Figure

Recent stats on corporate non-giving to faith groups, donations to the Baptist World Alliance, and a drop in church programs.

News

<em>Christianity Today</em> News Briefs

by CT staff

Recent developments in Christian education, American Orthodox, and ministry in Iraq and Zimbabwe.

Reviews

Bookmarks

Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

Quick reviews of new books.

Squeezing the Reader’s Heart

Ted Dekker sees himself as a reverse missionary.

Excerpt

The $65,000 Question

And the answer my autistic grandson gives.

Of Wardrobes and Potters

A story about faith and fairy tales.

Views

Grace That Surprises

Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman

Quotations to stir the heart and mind.

Facing an Unwelcome Truth

Janice Shaw Crouse

We can do better when it comes to bearing the burdens of battered women.

Machiavellian Morality

One reason teenagers, among others, are jammed in our prisons.

Editorial

Deadening the Heart

A Christianity Today Editorial

Killer video games are no ‘safety valve’—quite the opposite.

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