Polling Evangelical Leaders

Both unanimity and diversity emerge in a recent poll of the Lausanne delegates.

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Americans Like Evangelicals After All

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Books to Note

Mark Noll on the Foundation of the Evangelical Mind

Interview by David Neff

My Top 5 Books On Hell

Robert Peterson

Signs of the End Times

Wilson's Bookmarks

John Wilson

Review

King James and Queen Victoria: John Wilson Reviews Timothy Larsen's Latest

John Wilson

News

Homeless Shelters Face Sharp Cutbacks

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Dave Ramsey Goes Beyond Credit Card Shredding

Rob Moll

Ethiopia's River of Death

Matthew D. LaPlante

Agents of Translation: Philip Eaton on 'Engaging the Culture, Changing the World'

Interview by Hunter Baker

Real Happiness: Colson and George Bemoan our National Virtue Deficit

Chuck Colson and Timothy George

A Dream of a Center: 'A Model for Faith-based Organizations'

Interview by Robert Crosby

A Both/And Path to Truth

God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Body

Matthew Lee Anderson

News

Go Figure

Compiled by Ted Olsen

Review

What Jesus Never Said

Phillip Cary

Feeding the Poor Through Pay-As-You-Can

Catherine Newhouse

Do They Like Us?

Readers Write

No More Band-Aids: Shannon Sedgwick Davis Wields Law to Halt Genocide

Mark Moring

News

Pastors: Alabama Immigration Law Will Crimp Outreach

Ken Walker

A New Kind of Pentecostal

Robert C. Crosby

Drones: Is It Wrong to Kill by Remote Control?

Paul F. M. Zahl, Daniel M. Bell Jr., and Brian Stiltner

Editorial

Good Religion, Bad Religion

A Christianity Today Editorial

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Quotation Marks

Compiled by Ted Olsen

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Canceled Flights: New Policies Threaten Settlement Agencies

Susan Wunderink

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Gender Debate: SBC Pastors Denounce NIV

Bob Smietana

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Purity Practices: Coed Leadership Concerns

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

News

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Passages

News

Should We Still Give Out Tracts?

Compiled by Ruth Moon

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Review

American Christianity Is More Than Its Politics

Daniel K. Williams

Matthew Avery Sutton’s impressive new history is insightful, helpful, colorful—and incomplete.

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Janette Oke Wrote Her First Novel at 42. Then She Wrote 70 More.

Haley Victory Smith

The When Calls the Heart author launched the modern Christian romance genre, seeking to tell stories of faith in hardship.

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News

Indian Court Rules Christians Can Hold Home Prayer Meetings

Despite this good news out of the state of Uttar Pradesh, believers remain concerned about the abuse of anticonversion laws.

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The Bulletin

US and Israel Attack Iran

Mike Cosper and Clarissa Moll

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in military action initiated by President Trump.

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Trump Memorializes Trump on Buildings, Bibles, and More

Harvest Prude in Washington

The president’s penchant for renaming things after himself is unprecedented in American politics.

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The Prosperity Gospel of Comfortable College Grads

It’s easy to see the errors of health-and-wealth grifters. But a subtler addition to the gospel misleads many believers.

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Joe Espada in Spring Training

The Astros manager knows Christ is his Savior, not his win-generator.

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