Volume 44, Number 1
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Cover Stories
Social scientists like Robert Enright are discovering the healing power of a Christian virtue.
By Gary Thomas
Learning from the abolitionists during a time of political discouragement.
By Tim Stafford
More from this Issue
Northeast Synod rules 8-2 in favor of continuing church's holy union ceremonies
United Methodist minister guilty of breaking church law at gay ceremony
By Religion News Service
Selected by CT Editors and Writers
By James A. Beverley
Bestsellers now under fire in some classroom
David Keim
Troubled agency, accused of lawbreaking, offers restructuring plan.
Herb Hollinger, Baptist Press
Hillsdale College confronts a sexual scandal, suicide, and leader's resignation.
Douglas LeBlanc
Slave-freeing organization's rebel spokesman violated U.N. rules
Religion News Service
Obed Minchakpu in Jos, Nigeria, with Compas Direct
Pura Vida has donated $10,000 to missions and aid organizations
Deann Alford
Evangelicals make a thin showing as the world's religions gather to make common cause.
By James A. Beverley in Cape Town
A murdered missionary's widow carries on her husband's work.
By Anto Ankara in New Delhi, Ecumenical News International
Church and state join forces to promote marriage preparation programs.
The series is a 'Book of Virtues' with a preadolescent funny bone.
A Christianity Today Editorial
A year after the Clinton impeachment, can we get some perspective?
By David P. Gushee
It takes more than getting a woman inmate out of jail to turn her life around
By Jody Veenker
What the Lutheran-Catholic Justification Declaration really accomplished—and what it did not.
by Douglas A. Sweeney
In a land of volcanoes, persistent missionary efforts finally yield fruit.
By John W. Kennedy in Riobamba
Author Wendy Shalit rattles the female establishment with a hip appeal to tradition.
A conversation between Lauren F. Winner and Wendy Shalit
What Jesus really meant about becoming like little children.
By Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
The controversy over mandatory student fees heads to the Supreme Court.
By Gordon Govier in Madison, Wisconsin
Many churches observe the Eucharist a few times a year, but the early churches seemed to observe it weekly—possibly daily. What is most appropriate?—Wendell J. Biermann, Fayetteville, New York
Craig S. Keener
After the furor, Kevin Smith's film seems flawed but oddly touching
By Douglas LeBlanc
Charles Colson's apologetic—and call to action—is in the tradition of Francis Schaeffer.
reviewed by Harold O. J. Brown
Recent and important releases that will shape evangelical thought
Christians in two states defeat gambling by exposing its harmful effects on the poor.
By Charles Colson