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★ This is the Fall Book Issue, complete with forecast and several features on communicating the Gospel effectively through the printed page.

★ Editorial Associate James Daane contributes the threshold essay, the book forecast, and the article on “Eschatology and History” to this issue.

Also in this issue

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.

Christianity Today September 28, 1962

Review of Current Religious Thought: September 28, 1962

Philip Edgcumbe Hughes

Book Briefs: September 28, 1962

Protestant Preview of Second Vatican Council

Editorial

Craftsmen Plus

43: The Final State: Heaven and Hell

J. A. Motyer

Clean Christians

L. Nelson Bell

Eutychus and His Kin: September 28, 1962

Fall Book Forecast 1962

What Are You Looking For?

A. Skevington Wood

If You Would Be Gladly Heard

Margaret A. Graham

Is Language Worth the Trouble?

Dr. Robert Longacre

Eschatology and History

James Daane

The Sermons of John Donne

William R. Mueller

Writing Is a Ministry

Harold N. Englund

One Lord, One History

Our Latest

A Petri dish under a microscope.

So What If the Bible Doesn’t Mention Embryo Screening?

Silence from Scripture on new technologies and the ethical questions they raise is no excuse for silence from the church.

Saint Sophia Cathedral in Harbin City, China.

The Chinese Evangelicals Turning to Orthodoxy

Yinxuan Huang

More believers from China and Taiwan are finding Eastern Christianity appealing. I sought to uncover why.

Givati Parking Lot excavations in the City of David in Jerusalem.

Archaeology in the City of David Yields New Treasures

Gordon Govier

Controversial excavation in Jerusalem reveals new links to the biblical record.

Pastor Alex Zaytsev, on the end of the couch in a red shirt, hosting his teen ministry.

News

Displaced Ukrainian Pastor Ministers to the War’s Lost Teens

“Almost everybody has lost somebody, and quite a few people have lost very much.”

A photo of families and children walking along a US border.

Public Theology Project

Why Christians Ignore What the Bible Says About Immigrants

Believers can disagree on migration policies—but the Word of God should shape how we minister to vulnerable people.

The book cover.

Review

Apologetics Can Be a Balm—or Bludgeon

Daryn Henry

A new history of American apologetics from Daniel K. Williams offers careful detail, worthwhile lessons, and an ambitious, sprawling, rollicking narrative.

A person standing in front of several giant phones.

Hold the Phone?

Anna Mares

Faced with encouragement to lessen technology use, younger Christians with far-flung families wonder how to stay connected.

A collage of Norman Podhoretz and several of his books.

Norman Podhoretz Leaves a Legacy of Political Principle

Michael Cosper

The Jewish intellectual upheld the Judeo-Christian tradition.