Cover Story
Cover Story
Where We Are and How We Got Here
50 years ago, evangelicals were a sideshow of American culture. Since then, it’s been a long, strange trip. Here’s a look at the influences that shaped the movement.
Features
What Married Women Want
Sociologist Brad Wilcox says one type of marriage makes most women happier.
The Church’s Great Malfunctions
We should be our own fiercest critics, doing so out of the deep beauty and goodness of our faith.
Flea Market Believers
If these biblical literalists don’t go to church, can the Right count their vote?
A Bioethicist on Genesis
Leon Kass’s The Beginning of Wisdom.
Hope for Shalom
Lisa Graham McMinn’s The Contented Soul
A Greater Vision
Billy Graham’s bottom line never changes: ‘Are we really being used to change people?’
A One-China (Church) Policy
Werner Burklin says overseas evangelicals perpetuate the gulf between state-approved churches and illegal house churches.
Genocide and Grace
Three survivor stories that foster healing.
LBJ and JFK
The story of ‘Judgment Days’ is a triumph and a tragedy.
What’s Next: Relief and Development
Not What, But How: What evangelical leaders say are the priorities and challenges for the next 50 years.
What’s Next: International Justice
Long Road: What evangelical leaders say are the priorities and challenges for the next 50 years.
What’s Next: Higher Education
Uniquely Christian: What evangelical leaders say are the priorities and challenges for the next 50 years.
Legacy of a Global Leader
Less known than Stott’s earlier work is his ministry with Langham Partnership International.
Evangelism Plus
John Stott reflects on where we’ve been and where we’re going.
What’s Next: Evangelism
Urgent still: What evangelical leaders say are the priorities and challenges for the next 50 years.
What’s Next: Culture
‘The True, The Good’: What evangelical leaders say are the priorities and challenges for the next 50 years.
Let Us Reason Together About Life
A new statement from Evangelicals and Catholics Together encourages discourse on the most divisive of issues.
What’s Next: Theology
No compromise: What evangelical leaders say are the priorities and challenges for the next 50 years.
What’s Next: Publishing & Broadcasting
New media, old story: What evangelical leaders say are the priorities and challenges for the next 50 years.
What’s Next: Politics
Worried optimism: What evangelical leaders say are the priorities and challenges for the next 50 years.
What’s Next: Missions
Whole gospel: What evangelical leaders say are the priorities and challenges for the next 50 years.
What’s Next: Youth
Church Reconnect: What evangelical leaders say are the priorities for the next 50 years in youth ministry.
What’s Next: Local Church
We asked 114 leaders from 11 ministry spheres about evangelical priorities for the next 50 years. First up: Fresh basics for the local church.
‘Truth from the Evangelical Viewpoint’
What ‘Christianity Today’ meant to the movement 50 years ago.
Calvary Reunion: Skip Heitzig Returns to N.M.
New Mexico megachurch pastor returns after leadership conflict.
Cool on Climate Change
New Christian coalition says fighting global warming will hurt the poor.
Braves Lose Focus
Faith Nights hit snag after major-league debut.
News
News
Q&A: Richard Stearns
The president of World Vision U.S. on the Global Fund, free condoms, and church-based relief and development work.
News
‘Christianity Today’ News Briefs
Passing the Child Custody Protection Act, Methodists join the Joint Declaration of the Doctrine of Justification, and a PCUSA megachurch disaffiliates.
News
‘They Know We Are Christians’
Lebanese Christian compassion impresses Muslims during bloody conflict.
News
Passages
Remembering Leon Morris; Random House buys Multnomah; new Faith-Based Initiatives czar; and North Park’s new president.
Reviews
From Eternity to Here
Randy Alcorn says the afterlife is crucial to how we live this one.
The Top 50 Books That Have Shaped Evangelicals
Landmark titles that changed the way we think, talk, witness, worship, and live.
Views
CT Classics
Some of our favorite quotes from two decades of Reflections columns.
Grappling with God
Prayer sometimes feels like a hug and a stranglehold at the same time.
Train Wreck Coming
Why homosexual marriage threatens free expression of religion.
Asylum vs. Assistance
Offering sanctuary isn’t about political protest.
The Earmark Epidemic
The disease must be cured for the common good.