Christianity Today

February, 2007

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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

Making Airwaves

Madison Trammel

Goodbye Old-Fashioned Revival Hour. Hello ‘safe for the whole family.’ Meet the company that’s transforming Christian radio.

Features

The Wilberforce Strategy

Britain’s great abolitionist worked to change society’s values, not just its laws.

The Town that Loves Refugees

Denise McGill

Christians in Utica, New York are resettling the world one displaced soul at a time.

Belonging Before Believing

Review by Louis A. Markos

Reimagining Evangelism for a millennial generation.

The Early Church on Jesus

Review by Gary M. Burge

Ben Witherington offers a potpourri of thoughts about early Christian belief.

The Suburb of God

Review by Allan Sholes

The Suburban Christian is a sympathetic analysis.

Three Models of Hell

R. Todd Mangum

“Is hell nothing more than eternal torture of the unsaved? Why would God engage in punishment that seems so cruel?” — Tony De Luca, New York, New York

A Community of the Broken

Christopher L. Heuertz

A young organization models what it might mean to be the church in a suffering world.

Rigorous Joy

W. Jay Wood

The Lost Virtue of Happiness says happiness comes from pursuing goodness, not pleasure.

The Problem with Mere Christianity

J. Todd Billings

We jettison ‘nonessential’ theology at our own peril.

By Women, for Women

Review by La Shawn Barber

Women’s Evangelical Commentary offers a complementarian perspective.

The United Nations’ Disarray

Joseph Loconte

The decline of the human-rights agenda, and what evangelicals can do about it.

Can We Dialogue with Islam?

J. Dudley Woodberry

What 38 Muslim scholars said to the pope in a little-known open letter.

Praying the Psalms

Review by Patricia Raybon

James Sire teaches us to Pray Through the Psalms.

Saints Gone Wild

Review by Douglas A. Sweeney

Saints Behaving Badly tells about what went on before saints’ conversions.

Impressively Invisible

Madison Trammel disappears in his writing.

Dollars and Sense

Madison Trammel

How Salem Communications makes its money.

Striking Out the Liberals

Madison Trammel

Conservative Christians are the hope of America, says Salem host Frank Pastore.

Five Streams of the Emerging Church

Scot McKnight

Key elements of the most controversial and misunderstood movement in the church today.

Mega-Headache

Sarah Pulliam

Church fights town restrictions on services.

Exit Interviews

Why blacks are leaving evangelical ministries.

Asbury Flap

Frank E. Lockwood in Lexington, Kentucky

Seminary in crisis after board ousts president.

Modernity’s Art Form

Review by Eric Miller

A lush guide to film through Christian eyes.

News

News

Andrew Walls: Historian Ahead of His Time

Tim Stafford

Why this Christian scholar may be the most important person you don’t know.

News

Nepal’s New Peacemakers

Anto Akkara in Katmandu, Nepal

Christians become voice for freedom after national crisis.

News

Death-Defying Ministry

Alexa Smith

Protestant leaders practice grassroots justice–and keep a low profile.

News

Shedding Light on <em>The Dark Tower</em>

Harry Lee Poe

A C.S. Lewis mystery is solved.

News

A Boom for Missions

John W. Kennedy

Early boomer retirees are giving back in big numbers.

News

Go Figure

Recent statistics on who voted Democrat and churches offering election materials.

News

My Ministry Space

Chansin Bird, RNS

Youth pastors track popular networking website.

News

News Briefs: February 01, 2007

CT staff

Local Church’s petition denied, apology to Anabaptists, reward for AIDS work, and bankrupt tithing.

News

Compassionate Conservatives

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Study: Religious people give more than secular, even to nonreligious charities.

News

What Iraq’s Christians Need

A Christianity Today Editorial

Two strategies to build up the church in the war-weary nation.

News

Quotation Marks

Comments on Chavez’s Jesus, Bible widgets, and more.

News

Equal-Opportunity Offender

Susan Wunderink

Uzbek government crackdown on Muslims worries evangelicals.

News

Passages

Compiled by CT staff

Remembering Hoke and Garcia; Hunter resigns; Deng honored.

News

Miracle Vote

Isaac Phiri

Churches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo rejoice over first free elections in 46 years.

News

Riding the Pope’s Coattails

Brad A. Greenberg

Protestants hope to share in the benefits of Turkey trip.

Reviews

Review

Film: Modernity’s Art Form

Eric Miller

‘Through a Screen Darkly’ is a lush guide to film through Christian eyes.

Defining Business Success

A CEO on why core values are not enough.

Views

Compassionate Bedfellow

Ten years ago, a Jewish leader shamed Christians into caring.

Reflections: Winter

Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman

Quotations on the coldest time of the year to stir heart and mind.

Editorial

The New Intolerance

A Christianity Today Editorial

Fear mongering among elite atheists is not a pretty sight.

Bottom-Up Discipline

What do you do when your pastor–or your entire denomination–strays?

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