July
2011
Volume 55, Number 7
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Cover Story
Like many evangelical organizations that were built in the past 50 years, Focus on the Family is attempting to thrive—and survive—past its founder.
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
Features
Focus on the Family isn’t the only Colorado Springs organization preparing for its future after James Dobson.
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
With its people turning to Christ in waves, India hosts more believers now than at any time in its 4,000-year history.
Tim Stafford
The metropolitan archbishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church in the U.K. on evangelism, evangelicals, and the Orthodox Church.
Interview by David Neff
How his 21st-century evangelical makeover distorts the New Testament reality.
Timothy Gombis
Our most cherished democratic values are grounded in Jesus' sovereign authority.
John Witte Jr.
Row by row, urban Christians learn to bear literal and spiritual fruit.
Tony Carnes
Views
Jesus will put an end to this earth—but that is not the end of the story.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Christian thinkers weigh in on whether family or friends should intervene if a terminally ill Christian decides against life-extending treatment.
Dennis Sullivan, Rob Moll, and Robert Orr
Searching for Beauty amid Hollywood's beautiful people.
Leslie Leyland Fields
The 'blessed hope' was the linchpin of my father's faith.
David Neff
Reviews
Why the final movie is only the beginning of the Harry Potter phenomenon.
John Granger
Brooks's portrait of human flourishing lacks the essential elements of rescue and redemption.
Andy Crouch
How conditions on earth shape our views of the afterlife.
Bill Walker
How Andrew White's Baghdad congregation brings God's love to a war-torn land.
Interview by Joe Carter
Short reviews of 'Heaven Revealed,' 'Rediscovering the Church Fathers,' 'Orphanology,' 'Our Triune God,' and 'Perspectives on Tithing.'
Trevin Wax
News
With more than 22 million users on mobile platforms, and millions more on its website, it has unusual success in creating a massive participatory system like Wikipedia or YouTube.
Important developments in the church and world.
Recent comments from Oprah Winfrey, Jim Wallis, and others that have stirred the pot.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Churches discuss future paths since the votes came in for the Presbyterian Church(USA) to open the door to ordaining non-celibate homosexuals.
Bobby Ross Jr.
Supreme Court hears arguments today on whether fired teacher is a religious employee.
Ken Walker
Lutheran leaders want to push out young conservatives.
Ruth Moon
Observers weigh in on questions related to the 2012 election.
Compiled by Ruth Moon
Church leaders say the embattled president should stay on.
Dale Gavlak in Amman, Jordan, and Beirut, Lebanon, and Timothy C. Morgan
Catherine Clark Kroeger championed women’s equality without budging on scriptural authority.
Elaine Storkey
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Jon Tyson plants neighborhood churches in New York City.
Mark Moring