August
2010
Volume 54, Number 8
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Cover Stories
Homespun, savvy, and with a relentless focus on Jesus, Beth Moore has become the most popular Bible teacher in America.
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
Four themes that characterize Beth Moore's teaching.
Halee Gray Scott
Features
If the apostle Paul knew fatigue, anger, and anxiety in his ministry, what makes us think we can avoid them in ours?
Ajith Fernando
Christians gave Albert Camus good reasons not to believe. He gave me a reason to return to faith.
Rob Moll
A new biography helps us sense what life was like for the "pretty weird" and highly influential Julian of Norwich.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Views
We can no longer act like creation care is a secondary issue.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Should Christians continue to smuggle Bibles into China?
Todd Nettleton, Jonathan Brooks, and Gary Russell
Why we're afraid of it, and why we shouldn't be.
Chuck Colson with Catherine Larson
Reviews
Furious Love highlights spiritual warfare around the globe.
Katelyn Beaty
In “Be Very Afraid,"' sociologist Robert Wuthnow explains how Americans typically respond to fear.
Interview by David Neff
Picks from Timothy George, founding dean of Beeson Divinity School.
Timothy George
The main problem with most marriages, says Paul Tripp, is lack of submission—to God. A Review of 'What Did You Expect? Redeeming the Realities of Marriage.'
Lynn Roush
Reviews of 'The Natural Desire to See God,' 'Calvin's Ladder,' and 'Layover in Dubairom' from the editor of Books & Culture.
John Wilson
The latest edition of 'Operation World' spotlights a shifting global church.
Interview by Stan Guthrie
News
This year, four world missionary conferences are celebrating the Edinburgh meeting's centennial, but with distinctly different views of its legacy and future.
Important developments in the church and the world.
Sharing the gospel, Joni Eareckson Tada on breast cancer, and more.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
São Paulo parade highlights more than the gospel.
Carlos Fernandes in Rio de Janeiro
Observers weigh in on whether Christians have a special responsibility to have children.
Compiled by Ruth Moon
The 2000 Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act takes shape.
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
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Robert Gelinas, the Jazz Theologian, marches to the beat of a smooth drummer.
Mark Moring