Christianity Today

January/February, 2018

Volume 62, Number 1

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This issue's cover story is a paean to solitude, as experienced in one of the most unique environments on earth: the South Pole. Brett Baddorf reflects on finding God in the darkness while serving as a missionary among the scientists and support staff who populate Antarctica's remote research outposts during its long winter months.

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Cover Story

Lord of the Night

In God there is no darkness, but in the darkness of the South Pole I found God everywhere.

Features

The Rise of Reformed Charismatics

A 21st-century global movement sets the Word on fire with gospel preaching and powerful spiritual gifts.

Is Filling That ‘God-Shaped Hole’ God’s Plan for Our Lives?

Maybe we’re not supposed to be satisfied.

Understanding God’s Control When You’re a Climate Scientist

A geophysicist on balancing God’s sovereignty over nature with human understanding of weather.

The Radical Christian Faith of Frederick Douglass

The great abolitionist spoke words of rebuke—and hope—to a slaveholding society.

When the Gift of Intelligence Becomes the Burden of Alzheimer’s

The strength of human intellect also makes it fragile.

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Responses to our November issue.

Our January/February Issue: Fighting FOMO

How fear of missing out fuels our overextended lives, and why the South Pole holds clues to the solution.

News

As a New Age Enthusiast, I Fancied Myself a Free Spirit and a Good Person

Then a strange dream, an old friend, and a disturbing psalm woke me up to reality.

News

News

To Defend Mideast Christians, Can Advocates Critique Islam?

Diaspora leaders in America disagree on how to improve religious freedom back home.

News

Why the US Thinks Restricting International Adoptions Will Save Them

Experts debate State Department strategy to let the little children come less.

News

Gleanings: January/February 2018

Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our January issue).

Reviews

Review

Kate Bowler: I Reject the Prosperity Gospel but I Still Crave What It Promises

How terminal cancer gave a young historian greater sympathy with those seeking after “health and wealth.”

Review

A Wall of Security or a Table of Fellowship?

Matthew Kaemingk makes a political and theological case for welcoming Muslim immigrants.

New & Noteworthy Books

Compiled by Matt Reynolds.

Christianity Today’s 2018 Book of the Year

The release that best embodies our pursuit of Beautiful Orthodoxy.

Excerpt

Lost Keys and Lost Illusions

An excerpt from ‘Liturgy of the Ordinary,’ CT’s 2018 Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year.

Christianity Today’s 2018 Book Awards

Our picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.

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Editorial

One Does Not Simply Leave Evangelicalism

We agree: It’s a broken word describing broken people in a broken movement. It’s still Good News.

The Case for a No-Filter Prayer Life

Why we, as God’s friends, can speak to him freely.

Baptism Doesn’t Have to Be Divisive

Despite our different methods, we’re all immersed in the same Christ.

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