September
2011
Volume 55, Number 9
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Cover Story
The horrors of 9/11 were not unlike those of Good Friday.
Russell D. Moore
Features
Pastors, authors, & ministry leaders describe how that fateful day transformed their lives and ministries.
How a terrorist attack reshaped efforts to reach Muslims.
J. Dudley Woodberry
A suburban Chicago church ministers to Muslims at home and abroad.
Mark Moring
The 'Vicar of Baghdad' says the key to Muslim-Christian relations is very personal.
Interview by Mark Galli
Portland-based ministry Responder Life sees police officers, firefighters, and dispatchers as an unreached people group.
Shelly Ngo
Views
Our movement is wide enough to include a variety of methods.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Observers weigh in on how interactions between the two religions have changed in recent years.
Rick Love, Carl Moeller, and Jason Micheli
Where spit, blood, and sweat are to be found, so is God.
Leslie Leyland Fields
We have secularized the ancient Jewish rite—but it is still inescapably religious.
David Neff
Reviews
Picks from Steven Greydanus, film critic at Decent Films Guide.
Steven Greydanus
Why worship may help kick the habit. A review of 'Addiction and Virtue.'
Amy Julia Becker
Brief reviews of 'A Sunlit Absence,' 'The Final Hour,' and 'Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis.'
John Wilson
Why cohabitating couples are putting their future at risk. An interview with Glenn Stanton on 'The Ring Makes All the Difference.'
Interview by Caryn Rivadeneira
Short reviews of 'With,' 'God in a Brothel,' and 'Seven Days that Divide the World.'
News
A new survey found that Christian schooling makes a difference—and that different kinds of Christian education produce different results among their graduates.
Important developments in the church and world.
New report: More congregational combinations driven by mission, not survival.
Ken Walker
Youth ministry sees the return of reasons.
Chris Norton
Mom gets 18 months probation for showing her daughter a ritual chicken death.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
Evangelical NGOS say the ruling is unlikely to change their operations, but the case touches on larger principles.
Susan Wunderink
Observers weigh in on how churches should respond to children disrupting a worship service.
Compiled by Ruth Moon
What the Ethiopian Orthodox have learned from the expansion of evangelicals.
Matthew D. LaPlante in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
More from this Issue
The meaning of 9/11, and the motivation for missions.
Mark Galli
The studio exec says it's alive and well.
Mark Moring