Cover Story
Cover Story
Why Your Millennial Outreach Needs a Bit of Bonhoeffer
Millennial anxiety sabotages attempts to engage the next generation. Dietrich explains why.
Features
Meet the Mom Who Stopped Joseph Kony
How Shannon Sedgwick Davis helped dismantle the Ugandan warlord’s reign of terror.
Why Knowing About Jesus Is Not Enough
The day reading Philippians revealed to me a deeper knowledge.
Is Buying Your Way Onto the Bestseller List Wrong?
A year after Mark Driscoll’s church got caught manipulating the New York Times list, authors and publishers question a practice that extends far beyond Mars Hill.
Excerpt
Can We Ever Trust Our Own Hearts?
An excerpt from CT’s 2015 Book of the Year, ‘Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith.’
Christianity Today’s 2015 Book Awards
Our picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.
More from this Issue
Testimony
How I Almost Lost the Bible
Had it not been for the first editor of CT, I likely would have gone the way of liberal scholar Bart Ehrman.
Reply All
Readers respond to the November issue via letters, tweets, and blogs.
Why We Need a Beautiful Orthodoxy
What we hope you see in every CT article.
Joyful Vision
Introducing the editor in chief of all CT publications.
News
News
Should Pastors Stop Signing Civil Marriage Certificates?
First Things says yes. Survey finds 1 in 4 pastors agree.
News
Tending the ‘Stolen’ Sheep in Latin America’s Booming Bible Belt
Catholics may be fast converting to Protestantism, but beliefs and maturity vary.
News
The Season of Adventists: Can Ben Carson’s Church Stay Separatist amid Booming Growth?
The denomination gains one million each year. Some want to be more evangelical.
News
Signs of Belief: How a Small Dispute over Church Marketing Became Supremely Important
The curious Supreme Court case of a 30-person church in Gilbert, Arizona.
News
Gleanings: January/February 2015
Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our January/February issue).
Reviews
Prayers at the Museum of Modern Art
Plaster sinks and other strange artifacts are altars to an unknown god.
It’s Time for the Church to Grow Up
Thomas Bergler, the critic of ‘juvenilization,’ wants to put us back on the path to spiritual maturity.
Review
Tim Keller Found His Prayer Bearings, and So Can You
The Manhattan pastor steers us toward less clumsy, more confident conversations with God.
Review
Life after a Medical Death Sentence
Theologian J. Todd Billings learns how to travel in cancer’s company.
My Top 5 Books for Mothers
Amy Julia Becker, author and mother of three, chooses readings to comfort and encourage fellow moms.
New & Noteworthy Books
Compiled by Matt Reynolds
Views
Make New Friends, Keep Texting the Old
Technology does too good a job at sustaining our distant friendships.
Three Views: After Domestic Violence, Why Should a Christian Wife Call the Police, Not a Pastor, First?
Addressing a sin that afflicts 1 in 4 US women.
What Scripture and Jazz Have in Common
Resolving two difficult issues about the Bible’s inspiration.