Christianity Today

December, 2010

Volume 54, Number 12

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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

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

Challenging Chappies

Australia’s atheist prime minister wants chaplains in schools.

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

School Choice 2.0

Supreme Court weighs Arizona tax credits.

News

Quotation Marks

Machine-gun preachers, dueling atheists, the Christian yoga firestorm, and other recent remarks in the church around the world.

News

Behind the Scenes

Allan C. Emery exemplified a life of quiet service.

News

Passages

Recent deaths, retirements, and other transitions in the Christian world.

News

Standing in the (AIDS) Gap

Only half of HIV-positive children in Uganda receive treatment.

News

No Child Left to Die

Half of all babies born with HIV die by age 2. Could we stop that by 2015?

News

Away With ‘Away in the Manger’?

Should churches ban carols with questionable theology?

News

Let People Shop

Food pantries feed more, waste less with client choice.

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.

Excerpt

Why Jesus?

That most people meet Jesus on the road is no coincidence.

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.

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