Cover Story
Cover Story
Jesus vs. Paul
Many biblical scholars have noted that Jesus preached almost exclusively about the kingdom of heaven, while Paul highlighted justification by faith—and not vice versa. What gives?
Features
Christ of the Klingons
A physicist and a philosopher envision God’s design in the beautiful equations of string theory.
Welcoming Limits
When the ‘beginner years’ have passed, what does spiritual maturity look like?
Love Language
The new Lausanne Covenant prods us to take personal inventory.
Teeming Diversity
The Third Lausanne Congress demonstrated that global evangelicalism has been transformed.
More from this Issue
Alissa Wilkinson: Every Square Inch
The writer and editor seeks the redemption of all creation.
News
News
Go Figure
Recent statistics on what pastors think of Obama, the most Christian cities, and political engagement.
News
Court Upholds Silence Mandate, Exodus Departs from Day of Truth, & More News
Important developments in the church and the world.
News
Youth with a Passion
In its first 50 years, YWAM has deployed four million workers in 240 countries. Now it sets its sights on 152 remaining unreached people groups.
News
Quotation Marks
Machine-gun preachers, dueling atheists, the Christian yoga firestorm, and other recent remarks in the church around the world.
News
No Child Left to Die
Half of all babies born with HIV die by age 2. Could we stop that by 2015?
Reviews
Review
Christ Is Enough
Why this simple reminder is necessary right now. A review of Phillip Cary’s ‘Good News for Anxious Christians.’
Yuletide Yarns
Christian authors discuss the best Christmas story not in the Bible.
Review
Happiness Now!
We can grab hold of joy in this life, not just in heaven, says theologian Ellen Charry. A review of ‘God and the Art of Happiness.’
Wilson’s Bookmarks
Brief Reviews of ‘God of Liberty,’ ‘Manifest Destinies,’ and ‘Anterooms.’
My Top 5 Books on C.S. Lewis
Picks from Michael Ward, author of ‘Planet Narnia.’
The Line Where Religions Collide
Journalist and poet Eliza Grizwold says we can learn a lot about Christianity by surveying the region where they have clashed for 200 years.
Tim Keller: What We Owe the Poor
The pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church says seeking justice is not optional for the person saved by grace.
The Narnia Policeman
Douglas Gresham, C. S. Lewis’s stepson and co-producer of the Narnia movies, is the keeper of his stepfather’s flame.
Christmas Music Wrap-Up 2010
The season’s gladdest tidings in new holiday albums.
Views
A Cosmic Culmination
Recalling the earth-shaking, kingdom-sized message of Christmas.
Editorial
God’s Quiet Signature
Why the rescue of the Chilean miners was a “great miracle,” and what it tells us about Hanukkah.
Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Addiction is the spiritual disease of our time.
Readers Write
Your responses to the October 2010 issue of Christianity Today.