Christianity Today

November/December 2024

Volume 68, Number 7

October 15, 1956
Cover of the November/December 2024 Issue
A Time for Wonder

As this issue hits your mailboxes after the US election and as you prepare for the holidays, it can be easy to feel lost in darkness. In this issue, you’ll read of the piercing light of Christ that illuminates the darkness of drug addiction at home and abroad, as Angela Fulton in Vietnam and Maria Baer in Portland report about Christian rehab centers. Also, Carrie McKean explores the complicated path of estrangement and Brad East explains the doctrine of providence. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt shows us how art surprises, delights, and retools our imagination for the Incarnation, while Jeremy Treat reminds us of an ancient African bishop's teachings about Immanuel. Finally, may you be surprised by the nearness of the “Winter Child,” whom poet Malcolm Guite guides us enticingly toward. Happy Advent and Merry Christmas.

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Essays

Pilgrim at Plaster Creek

Christ comes to make all things new—even West Michigan’s most polluted watershed.

Illustrating the Incarnation

How art testifies to the incredible truth of Christ with us.

The Light of the World Is for Everyone

Those who do not yet share our faith can share our wonder at the beauty and comfort of light in the darkness.

 

Review

What to Salvage from Fundamentalism

Like Richard Mouw, I’m reluctant to discard everything about this flawed heritage.

The Consolation of Providence

The doctrine of God’s wise and sovereign governance doesn’t make history easy to interpret. It makes living through it endurable.

News

Evangelicals Tap Power of the Sun—and Government Rebates

More churches embracing solar power to care for creation and cut energy costs.

News

Biblical Archaeology Gets Subatomic Help

New tool finds use where digging is practically or politically impossible in Jerusalem.

I’m Estranged from My Parents. I Still Love Them.

Even when family ties are severed, God does not cut off his care.

News

Recovery Ministries Try to Help Portland Get Clean

After an attempt to decriminalize drugs made the addiction crisis in Oregon even worse, local Christians are pleading with the sick—and the state—to let them help.

Review

New & Noteworthy Books

Chosen by Matt Reynolds, CT senior books editor.

Review

Tending and Keeping the Christian Past in an ‘Ahistoric Age’

Why the work of historical stewardship isn’t just for historians.

Review

The Black Church Has Five Theological Anchors

Walter Strickland’s sweeping narrative of African American Christianity portrays a big God who is strong to deliver.

News

Finding Sobriety—and Jesus—in Vietnam’s Christian Drug Rehabs

The country’s church-run addiction centers are so effective that communist officials are taking notice.

The Incarnation Is More than the Manger

How an ancient African bishop championed the incarnation’s redemptive arc.

Prologues

Advent Begins in the Dark

We bear the tension of both joy and sorrow.

Do I Have to Go to Church with My Folks?

CT advice columnists also weigh in cringing at Christianese and the importance of attraction.

A Solution for Seasonal Overwhelm

Focusing on the few in front of us makes a tangible difference in our local communities.

Public Theology Project

Let Heaven and Nature Wail

In this season, a baby’s cry can say more than a simple “Merry Christmas.”

Testimony

I Made Millions as a Porn Star. It Nearly Cost Me Everything.

My adult-film career destroyed my sense of self-worth, but God wouldn’t let it define me.

Backstories

News

Winning the Pro-Life Battles, Losing the Persuasion War

Americans support right to abortion more than any time in recent history.

News

Soccer Fans Warned about Losing Souls

And other news briefs from Christians around the world.

Readers Praise Print Magazines and Local Churches

Responses to our July/August issue.

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