Christianity Today

December, 2007

Volume 51, Number 12

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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

Blessed Are the Barren

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

The kingdom of God springs forth from the empty womb.

Features

An Incomplete Reconciliation

Review by Lauren Winner

Jan Karon’s latest contains all her traditional charms but misses an opportunity.

Hour of Decision

Erik Thoennes

“How can I know I’m a Christian if I can’t remember when I first responded to the gospel?”

It’s a Wonder-Full Life

It takes a special kind of birth to grab the world’s attention.

Courageous Nonviolence

Ron Sider

At the first Christmas, the angels proclaimed, ‘Peace on earth.’ Just-war and pacifist Christians together can make it happen.

Saving Faces

Deann Alford in Accra, Ghana

Mercy Ships surgeons perform medical miracles daily in remote ports of call.

When the Media Became a Nuisance

Darrell Bock

How to respond to the next blockbuster book/documentary/movie that questions traditional Christianity.

Mixing Faith and Power

Collin Hansen

Bush speechwriter takes a principled, though not always popular, stand.

Unexpected Global Lessons

How short-term mission is becoming a two-way street.

News

News

Young, Restless, and Ready for Revival

Becky Tirabassi

On-campus Christians are seeking holiness in unexpected numbers.

News

Suffocating the Faithful

Will the last Mideast church leader be sure to turn off the lights?

News

Go Figure

Recent statistics on young evangelical’s politics and ‘Christian fundamentalist religions.’

News

The Chronicles of Atheism

Peter T. Chattaway

When The Golden Compass hits theaters this month, many will be introduced to the works of Philip Pullman, a writer who detests C.S. Lewis’s fantasy world.

News

Q&A: Karekin II

Denise McGill

The leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Karekin II visited the U.S. in October to support a resolution condemning Turkey’s 1915-1917 Armenian genocide.

News

Quotation Marks

Recent comments on education, wildfires, organ donation, and other subjects.

News

News Briefs: November 15, 2007

Nigeria mob kills 10, pharmacists don’t have to fill Plan B prescriptions, and Prison Fellowship bars UCC congregation from Angel Tree.

News

Passages

Conversions, deaths, and appointments from the evangelical world.

News

Hybrid Test Drive

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Advances in stem-cell technology cheer and alarm ethics watchers.

News

Undercover Clinic

Planned Parenthood is caught using a new low-visibility tactic.

News

Tulsa Dustup

Bill Sherman

Lawsuit charges ORU president and his wife with fiscal, moral improprieties.

News

Voting Values

Jocelyn Green

New poll suggests that the Iraq war may trump abortion and gay marriage.

News

‘Federation’ Charts New Frontier

Sheryl Henderson Blunt

Orthodox Anglicans take first step in creating their own U.S. church body.

News

Tortured to Death in Eritrea

Jeff M. Sellers, Compass Direct

Fourth Protestant in a year killed by government forces.

News

Wycliffe Woes

Brad A. Greenberg

Troubles mount for Oxford’s evangelical outpost.

Reviews

Bookmarks

John Wilson, editor of 'Books & Culture'

Short reviews of books on American reform, shyness, and the clash of Rome and Jerusalem.

My Top 5 Books on Church History

Douglas A. Sweeney, author, 'The American Evangelical Story' (Baker Academic).

Christmas ‘Jars’

Interview by Mark Moring

New album gently rattles the seasonal genre.

Views

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman

Quotations to stir heart and mind.

Editorial

Who Do People Say We Are?

A Christianity Today Editorial

It doesn’t hurt to listen to what non-Christians think of us.

The Invasion of God

The so-called Christmas wars are much larger than we imagine.

Editorial

How We Fight Poverty

A Christianity Today Editorial

U.N. Millennium Development Goals are good—as far as they go.

Do They Know It’s Hanukkah?

There’s more than one “happy holiday” for Christians this season.

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