November
2010
Volume 54, Number 11
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The CT archives are a rich treasure of biblical wisdom and insight from our past. Some things we would say differently today, and some stances we've changed. But overall, we're amazed at how relevant so much of this content is. We trust that you'll find it a helpful resource.
Cover Stories
Returning the growing fields and kitchen table to God.
Leslie Leyland Fields
Features
Views
Our media culture values outrage over truth. We can do better.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Discussion: Should Christians support laws that ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil in public?
David Johnston, Christine Schirrmacher, and Joseph Cumming
Gratitude is also the one we are most likely to sabotage.
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
Reviews
'Little Town of Bethlehem' puts a human face on Israeli-Palestinian relations.
David Neff
How the Christian faith will be a subversive—and liberating—influence in the Middle East.
Philip Yancey
How and why Michael Gerson believes Christians should not abandon the public square.
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
The gods of America, and the difference they make. A review of 'America's Four Gods.'
Matthew Lee Anderson
Picks from Darrell Bock, editor of 'Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus.'
Darrell Bock
Bill McKibben believes we can thrive on a planet that will never be the same. A review of 'Eaarth.'
LaVonne Neff
George Pattison offers a new translation and selection.
Søren Kierkegaard
Brief Reviews of 'Doctor Zhivago,' 'The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion,' and 'The Man with the Baltic Stare.'
John Wilson
What they can, and cannot, teach evangelicals.
Interview by Randall L. Frame
News
Like the settlers of Plymouth Colony, today's refugees and asylum seekers have fled their homelands because of persecution of several kinds—not just religious.
Do laws defining personhood help the unborn?
Compiled by Ruth Moon
Eddie Long talks about his bag of rocks, Calvin College mourns for irony, and other statements of note in the church around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Pastors split over Bible reading in schools as fix for violence.
Jeremy Weber
Roma Revival: Missionary efforts continue to succeed.
Trevor Persaud
N.C. proposal raises age-old questions of Baptist identity.
Bobby Ross Jr.
New faith-based school opens doors for young adults with intellectual disabilities.
Elissa Cooper in Union Grove, Wisconsin
More than in previous generations, 20- and 30- somethings are abandoning the faith. Why?
Drew Dyck
Vernon Grounds shaped the movement with a rare combination of gifts in apologetics, social justice, and pastoral counseling.
Scott Wenig
A new study suggests that evangelical pastors have been more likely to take public stances and candidates than their mainline cohorts.
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Mark Moring