Christianity Today

March, 2007

Volume 51, Number 3

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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

Free at Last

Deann Alford

How Christians worldwide are sabotaging the modern slave trade.

Features

Practicing Chastity

Lauren F. Winner reviews Dawn Eden's 'The Thrill of the Chaste.'

A lifelong spiritual discipline for singles and marrieds.

Old Testament Sermon Solutions

Review by John Makujina

Preaching the Old Testament provides essays by evangelical scholars.

Godly Emotion

Review by Stanton L. Jones

Faithful Feelings takes another look at emotions.

Grandpa John

Tim Stafford

A new generation of urban activists is shaped by John Perkins.

Jesus’ Sermon for Moderns

Review by Gary M. Burge

Ethics for Christians in Living the Sermon on the Mount.

A Spiritual Growth Industry

Brad A. Greenberg

More than ever, Christians are bringing faith to bear in the for-profit world.

Emerging Monasticism

Review by Rob Moll

A mission renaissance in ‘The New Friars’

Leaps of Faith

Bob Smietana

What business execs are learning as they lead Christian nonprofits.

Images of Mission

Review by Jim Reapsome, Associate Pastor, Western Springs Baptist Church

Art and ministry in Picturing Christian Witness.

Atheist Apostle

Sam Harris has little patience for theists of any sort.

My Conversation with God

Anonymous

I had no idea what God would do when I asked him to use me.

Seeing Both Sides

Review by Douglas LeBlanc

Reaching the Left from the Right tells conservative evangelicals how to build bridges.

Q&A: Hugh Hewitt

Conservative blogger, political analyst, and radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt on Romney’s bid for the White House.

The Devil’s Yoke

Interview by Sheryl Henderson Blunt

A young woman describes her former life as a slave of rebel soldiers.

On a Justice Mission

Gary Haugen

Thanks to William Wilberforce, we already know the key to defeating slavery.

No Spoonful of Sugar

Timothy C. Morgan

What sweetens your tea? Ordinary Brits cared enough to boycott.

Witness Lee in the Dock

Mark A. Kellner

Evangelical leaders prod Local Church on founder’s teachings.

Receipt at the Ready

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

New IRS guidelines clamp down on anonymous cash giving.

News

News

Quotation Marks

Comments on Episcopal zeal, giving God his due, coaching football, and the culture war.

News

Majority Spoils

Sheryl Henderson Blunt

New law sidelines minority faiths in Romania.

News

News Briefs: March 01, 2007

Sanctions against Belarus; raising awareness of Palestinian Christians; and attacks in India.

News

Amazing Abolitionist

Mark Moring

Amazing Grace shows Wilberforce in action.

News

Passages

Remembering Fox-Genovese; NAE’s new executive director; Rick Santorum’s new job; and other news.

News

Home Sharks

Rob Moll

Unscrupulous lenders target Habitat for Humanity homeowners.

News

Go Figure

Recent stats on Iraqi refugees, embezzlement, and Congress’s religion.

News

Day of Reckoning

Rob Moll

Chuck Smith and Calvary Chapel face an uncertain future.

News

Redirected Tithe

Compass Direct

Eritrean officials seize church finances, jail Samaritan’s Purse drivers.

News

Fluid Solution

Sarah Pulliam

Research advance could shift stem-cell debate.

News

Dividing the Faithful

Madison Trammel

Conservatives fleeing the Episcopal Church regroup–apart.

Reviews

Grace Afar and Near

Billy Graham’s third daughter, Ruth, describes her relationship with her famous father.

Deeper into Terabithia

Interview by Peter T. Chattaway

Bridge to Terabithia author Katherine Paterson says a story reveals a writer’s faith, whether she likes it or not.

Views

‘Ordinary’ Delights

Let us praise the consoling banality of good.

Living with the Darwin Fish

Why the discovery of yet another ‘missing link’ doesn’t destroy my faith.

Jesus and the Sinner’s Prayer

What Jesus says doesn’t match what we usually say.

News

Suffering God

Quotations to stir heart and mind.

Editorial

The Slope Really Is Slippery

A Christianity Today Editorial

Why we struggle to gain our moral footing in bioethics.

Not What It Seems

A bird’s-eye view of contemporary evangelicalism.

Why Isn’t ‘Yes’ Enough?

The fuss over swearing-in ceremonies reveals a deeper problem.

Editorial

What Would Wilberforce Do?

A Christianity Today Editorial

The 19th-century abolitionists have much to teach us about politics today.

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