Cover Story
Cover Story
Refocusing on the Family
Like many evangelical organizations that were built in the past 50 years, Focus on the Family is attempting to thrive—and survive—past its founder.
Features
Jesus: Democratic King
Our most cherished democratic values are grounded in Jesus’ sovereign authority.
Back to the Garden
Row by row, urban Christians learn to bear literal and spiritual fruit.
The Paul We Think We Know
How his 21st-century evangelical makeover distorts the New Testament reality.
India’s Grassroots Revival
With its people turning to Christ in waves, India hosts more believers now than at any time in its 4,000-year history.
Q & A: Bishop Kallistos Ware on the Fullness and the Center
The metropolitan archbishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church in the U.K. on evangelism, evangelicals, and the Orthodox Church.
Family Talk, Family Business
Focus on the Family isn’t the only Colorado Springs organization preparing for its future after James Dobson.
More from this Issue
City Parish: An Australian Builds NYC Networks
Jon Tyson plants neighborhood churches in New York City.
A Change of Focus
What a beauty pageant story revealed about a ministry.
News
News
A Liberating Woman: A Reflection on the Founder of Christians for Biblical Equality
Catherine Clark Kroeger championed women’s equality without budging on scriptural authority.
News
Ministerial Murkiness: Biggest Religion Case in 20 Years?
Supreme Court hears arguments today on whether fired teacher is a religious employee.
News
Christian President Retains Office, Pastor Kidnapped in Mexico, & Other News
Important developments in the church and world.
News
Quotation Marks
Recent comments from Oprah Winfrey, Jim Wallis, and others that have stirred the pot.
YouVersion’s Volunteer Army
With more than 22 million users on mobile platforms, and millions more on its website, it has unusual success in creating a massive participatory system like Wikipedia or YouTube.
News
Should Marital Infidelity Disqualify a Candidate from Office?
Observers weigh in on questions related to the 2012 election.
News
Renewal Groups Strategize after the PC(USA) Drops Celibacy Clause for Gay Clergy
Churches discuss future paths since the votes came in for the Presbyterian Church(USA) to open the door to ordaining non-celibate homosexuals.
Reviews
My Top 5 Books On Heaven
Picks from Paul Enns, author of ‘Heaven Revealed’
Joy in the Midst of Terror
How Andrew White’s Baghdad congregation brings God’s love to a war-torn land.
Review
Picturing Paradise: A Review of ‘Heaven in the American Imagination’
How conditions on earth shape our views of the afterlife.
Harry Potter Is Here to Stay
Why the final movie is only the beginning of the Harry Potter phenomenon.
Review
Common Grace and Amazing Grace: A Review of David Brooks’s ‘The Social Animal’
Brooks’s portrait of human flourishing lacks the essential elements of rescue and redemption.
Books to Note
Short reviews of ‘Heaven Revealed,’ ‘Rediscovering the Church Fathers,’ ‘Orphanology,’ ‘Our Triune God,’ and ‘Perspectives on Tithing.’
Views
The Power and the Glamour
Searching for Beauty amid Hollywood’s beautiful people.
Dying Decisions: Should Relatives Intervene?
Christian thinkers weigh in on whether family or friends should intervene if a terminally ill Christian decides against life-extending treatment.
A Second-Coming Christian
The ‘blessed hope’ was the linchpin of my father’s faith.
Readers Write
Responses to the May issue of CT.
Editorial
Harold Camping Is (Sort of) Right
Jesus will put an end to this earth—but that is not the end of the story.