Christianity Today

June, 2008

Volume 52, Number 6

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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

News

How to Pick a President

Daniel Taylor & Mark McCloskey

Why virtue trumps policy.

Features

Wounds of a Friend: Egalitarian

Sarah Sumner

Egalitarians should rely more on careful exegesis and less on political ideologies.

Wounds of a Friend: Complementarian

John Koessler

Complementarians need to recover a fully biblical view of women — and of handling theological disagreement.

The Five Steps of Getting Un-Lost

Review by Chap Clark

I Once Was Lost has wisdom for those trying to reach young skeptics.

Tim Keller Reasons with America

Interview by Susan Wunderink

The New York pastor explains why he’s taking his ministry model on the road.

When God Disturbs the Peace

Our gospel may be small because we fail to believe that God animates many social movements.

From Blessing to Burden

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Candidates are scrutinized ever more closely for their spiritual associations.

Olympic Outreach

Lisa Parro

China’s restrictions force ministries to retool their efforts.

Q&A: Richard Mouw

Sheryl Henderson Blunt

Mouw is president of Fuller Theological Seminary and a supporter of Evangelicals and Catholics Together.

News

News

The Great (Non)debate

Why are the candidates ignoring the huge problem under our noses?

News

Unapologetic Apologist

Deann Alford in London

Jay Smith confronts Muslim fundamentalists with fundamentalist fervor.

News

Pennies for Your Thoughts

Todd Hertz

What Fox TV’s public confessional reveals.

News

Passages

Denise Isom, Ken Behn, and Rodney Hammer resign; Dottie Rambo and Maria Sue Chapman dead.

News

Quotation Marks

Speaker Pelosi’s Bible, “how it is” with drug dealers, Ted Turner’s turn, and other recent remarks.

News

News Briefs: June 01, 2008

Capital punishment returns, Cedarville’s trustees uphold firing, and the House votes for debt forgiveness.

News

Passages

Cornerstone appoints new president, Clyde Cook remembered, ten Booms honored by Israeli Holocaust authority, Sherri Klouda dismissed.

News

Go Figure

Recent statistics on 100 years of Gideon Bibles, charismatic Catholics, and other subjects.

News

Willow Creek’s ‘Huge Shift’

Matt Branaugh

Influential megachurch moves away from seeker-sensitive services.

News

Corporate-Sponsored Terror

Ken Walker

Wives of slain missionaries sue Chiquita for complicity in the murders.

News

Suing for Reconciliation

Paul Asay

Struggling congregation alleges the denomination sold its sanctuary unlawfully.

News

Change of Address

Adelle M. Banks, RNS

Kenneth Copeland turns to IRS to avoid Senate inquiry into prosperity ministries.

Reviews

Early Returns Are Mixed

Mark A. Noll

Global evangelicals don’t necessarily vote like American evangelicals.

Bookmarks

John Wilson, editor of 'Books & Culture'

Short reviews of The Great Awakening, The Return of History and the End of Dreams, and Making the Best of It.

Review

Apocalyptic Love Songs

Andy Whitman

Southeast Engine harks back to the prophets.

Views

Home

Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman

Quotations to stir heart and mind.

Grace and Peace

How a simple salutation points us toward a new society.

Talk and Walk

Getting our body in sync with our message.

Editorial

Rise of the Rebel Virgins

A Christianity Today Editorial

Why we refrain even when premarital sex is safe and “natural.”

Editorial

Israel Reconciled to All

A Christianity Today Editorial

Ground-level religious discrimination against Messianic Jews may be changing.

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