Christianity Today

September, 2008

Volume 52, Number 9

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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

Creating Culture

Our best response to the world is to make something of it.

Features

When a Professor of Aramaic Meets Hollywood

Ariel Sabar

You get asked some pretty strange things when you speak the language of Jesus.

The Ironic Faith of Emergents

Scot McKnight

McLaren shows us not only where ‘post-evangelicals’ are going, but also how they get there.

McLaren Emerging

Scot McKnight

In his last two books, Brian McLaren presents more clearly than ever his vision of the gospel.

Should I Fish or Lay Low?

Carolyn Nystrom

Eldredges’s sense of divine guidance makes a Calvinist’s heart burn with envy. Or caution.

A Life Formed in the Spirit

Richard Foster’s disciplined attention to spiritual formation began early on.

Choosing Celibacy

Marcy Hintz

How to stop thinking of singleness as a problem.

Missional Misstep

David Fitch

Emphasizing the big gospel can make it hard to communicate any gospel.

News

News

It’s Primetime in Iran

Christopher Lewis

Satellites allow Iranian Christians to come alongside believers back home.

News

Looking for Home

Christopher Lewis

Muslim-background believers in the U.S. struggle to find Christian community.

News

The Father of Faith-Based Diplomacy

Rob Moll

Doug Johnston is going where few foreign policy experts have gone before.

News

Richard Foster on Leadership

By Richard Foster

How do leaders — who must get subordinates to follow their lead — practice the discipline of submission?

News

Quotation Marks

Recent remarks on politics, sex, and other issues.

News

Prayer at the Pump

A Christianity Today Editorial

The upside of $4-a-gallon gas.

News

Go Figure

Religion coverage in the primary season, the difference between “churched” and “unchurched” America, and the abortion decline.

News

Going to Bat for His Neighbors

Derek R. Keefe

Bob Muzikowski turns vacant lots into fields of promise.

Wire Story

Sunday Drivers

Ashly McGlone, Religion News Service

Churches get creative amid soaring gas prices.

News

For the Love of Lit

Meritt Sawyer and friends revive the value of family and the printed page.

News

The Other Kind of Angels

After leaving Capitol Hill, Mark Rodgers started helping investors find artists.

News

No More Shortcuts

Brad A. Greenberg

Catherine Rohr’s program redirects prisoners’ entrepreneurial savvy.

News

Re-Imagining Reality

Tim Stafford

Artist Makoto Fujimura launched the International Arts Movement to ‘re-humanize the world.’

News

Caesar’s Sectarians

A Christianity Today Editorial

The government keeps trying to favor one kind of religion over another.

News

Healing ORU

John W. Kennedy in Tulsa

$70 million and Mart Green’s business acumen are repairing a scandal-scarred school.

News

‘Dead Sea Scrolls on Stone’

Gordon Govier

Prof says first-century tablet tells of messiah who will die and rise.

News

Translation Tiff

Jocelyn Green

Some Jamaicans aren’t eager to see a Bible in the country’s majority language.

News

Leaving Lakeland

Cary McMullen, 'The Ledger of Lakeland'

The Florida Outpouring revival concerned Pentecostal leaders.

News

Undue Attention in Algeria

Compass Direct News

An Islamic nation decides to enforce its worship restrictions after all.

News

The Party of Faith

Sarah Pulliam

Democrats and Republicans vie for the title in their upcoming elections.

News

Salvation through Buddhism?

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Exclusivist view of Christianity might not be so rare.

Reviews

My Top 5 Books on Food

Stephen H. Webb, author of 'Good Eating'

Bookmarks

John Wilson, editor of 'Books & Culture'

John Wilson’s short reviews of The Future of Christian Learning, To Live Upon Hope, and The Palace Council.

Review

Girls on Display

Todd C. Ream and Sara C. Ream

Why females younger and younger are being portrayed as sexual objects.

Review

Debauchery and Crucifixes

Andy Whitman

The Hold Steady reminds us of “something bigger.”

Crouch and Culture

With one book off to the printer, Andy Crouch contemplates beginning another.

Cultivating Where We’re Planted

Interview by Derek R. Keefe

Andy Crouch says there’s no reason to get paralyzed by our ‘culture making’ mandate.

Views

Hope for Troubled Times

Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman

Quotations to stir heart and mind.

On the Grand Canyon Bus

The Christian life is about the journey as well as the destination.

Missionary Myths

Why the Great Commission still applies.

Theology in Aisle 7

Trying to organize a God who transcends.

Additional Articles

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