Table Of Contents
May
2018
Volume 62, Number 4
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About This Issue
While Christianity Today has covered church special-needs ministries fairly extensively, far less attention has been given to the ministry that individuals with intellectual disabilities themselves have. This issue explores the ministry of those with intellectual disability, surveying the diverse ways they are serving the body of Christ in churches and faith communities.
Cover Story
How Christians with intellectual disabilities are serving churches (not just being served by them).
Features
New historical research by Brian J. Wright shows that early Christians were surprisingly bookish.
What dissecting bodies taught me about the passion story and life after death.
Cincinnati’s Crossroads uses entrepreneurial strategies for gospel ends.
Views
Let’s ask the early church fathers.
In Luke’s famous sister rivalry, Jesus isn’t warning against busyness.
Reviews
A scholar’s journey through the region reveals much more than Baptists and church barbecues.
From sex-selective abortion to sexual abuse, it encompasses the entire female life cycle.
The quest for the historical apostles, exporing Noah's flood, and rediscovering the gospel at the Lord's table.
How the civil-rights hero honed his preaching skills and prophetic vision at a Northern liberal seminary.
They have different responses to God. And He has different responses to them.
News
Thousands of churches closed in attempt to curb bad buildings—and bad preaching.
Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our May issue).
“Watu Wote” shows the power and limits of African and Arab films to probe interfaith relations.
More from this Issue
The glory and failing of the human body—it’s all God’s grace.
Billy Graham’s God-given vision for a magazine of “conviction and love.”
The “Napalm Girl” from a famous Vietnam War photo tells her story of coming to faith.
