CT Pastors’ Top 17 Articles of 2017
This year’s best practical solutions and stories of ministry failure, temptation, and encouragement.
Christianity Today’s 2018 Book Awards
Our picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture.
Updike: A Life in Motion
Amiably coaxing us to pay attention.
Josephus as a Pre-Raphaelite
The life of a “Jew among the Romans.”
Letters
“Horror Pornography” and a Drug-Abusing Grandmother
Hostel hurts, Grandma’s Boy is wasted, BloodRayne’s dead on arrival, The Ringer is OK, and Christian film critics are still considering Brokeback Mountain, Munich, King Kong, Memoirs of a Geisha, and The Gospel.
Second Chance, First Movie for Smith, Taylor
Two famous Christian musicians have collaborated on The Second Chance. What do Christian film critics think? Plus, reviews of Freedomland, Eight Below, and Date Movie, with more reviews of Curious George, Firewall, and The Pink Panther.
Are These Four Really Fantastic?
Does Fantastic Four measure up to recent superhero spectacles? Plus: Dark Water, March of the Penguins, Rebound, and more reviews of War of the Worlds, Mad Hot Ballroom, Batman Begins, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Cornucopia
“How do you decide what to review?”
Dover Board Lied! Intelligent Design Died!
Plus: The Catholic version of the “no church on Christmas” story, the Osteens’ worst flight now, and other stories from online sources around the world.