Polling Evangelical Leaders

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

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August

Christianity Today August, 2011

Cover Story

Americans Like Evangelicals After All

Bradley R.E. Wright

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

News

Quotation Marks

Compiled by Ted Olsen

News

Canceled Flights: New Policies Threaten Settlement Agencies

Susan Wunderink

News

Gender Debate: SBC Pastors Denounce NIV

Bob Smietana

News

Purity Practices: Coed Leadership Concerns

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

News

Colleges Deemed Not Religious Enough, Refugees Improperly Quizzed on Religion, and More News

News

Passages

News

Should We Still Give Out Tracts?

Compiled by Ruth Moon

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Perhaps technology has changed everything. But God is still here, still wiring humans for connection and presence.

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The Call to Art, Africa, and Politics

Daniel Silliman

In 1964, CT urged Christians to “be what they really are—new men and women in Christ.”

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The Bulletin

Pete Hegseth’s Future, Farmers on Tariffs, and Religious Decline Stalls

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Hegseth scrutinized for drug boat strikes, farmers react to Trump’s tariffs, and a Pew report says religious decline has slowed.

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The Debate over Government Overreach Started in 1776

Three books to read this month on politics and public life.

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Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

BONUS: Amanda Knox on the Satanic Panic and Wrongful Convictions

How elements of the satanic panic and conspiratorial thinking shaped a wrongful conviction.

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The Chinese Christian Behind 2,000 Hymns

X. Yang

Lü Xiaomin never received formal music training. But her worship songs have made her a household name in China’s churches.

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Death by a Thousand Error Messages

Carrie McKean in Midland, Texas

Classroom tech was supposed to solve besetting education problems. The reality is frustrating for students and costly for taxpayers.

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The Surprising Joys of a Gift-Free Christmas

Ahrum Yoo

Amid peak consumerism season, I prayed for ways to teach my children about selfless giving.