July
2010
Volume 54, Number 7
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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 Story
Abba changes everything.
Russell D. Moore
Features
Creation care is part and parcel of the Great Commission and the Great Commandment.
Scott Sabin
Churches are getting real about adoption's challenges—and helping families after the child arrives.
Carla Barnhill
Urban, suburban, and rural churches respond to new challenges in a less mobile era.
Collin Hansen
Views
Why we are tempted to embellish conversion stories.
A Christianity Today Editorial
What should be done with frozen embryos left at fertility clinics?
Ron Stoddart, David Cook, and Ellen Painter Dollar
Risking love in a land of violence.
David Neff
Reviews
James Dobson explains his ideas for raising daughters, and life after Focus.
Interview by Sarah Pulliam Bailey
Cussing isn't our only problem—though that's bad enough.
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
What can happen when a thoroughly secular woman eats a piece of bread. A review of 'Jesus Freak.'
John Wilson
Picks from Jedd Medefind, president, the Christian Alliance for Orphans.
Jedd Medefind
'The Loser Letters' pokes serious fun at a mostly humorless movement.
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
Eric Metaxas explains how the German theologian lived a life worth examining.
Interview by Collin Hansen
'Pearl Buck in China,' 'The Flight of the Intellectuals,' and 'Here Comes the Garbage Barge.'
John Wilson
News
How states are blocking abortion coverage.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Important developments in the church and the world.
Compiled by CT Staff
Chuck Swindoll's last wish, Ann Curry's mix-up, and more.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
New religious freedom rhetoric within the Obama administration draws concern.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
Faith-based model teaches rural poor how to use trade to rise out of poverty.
Cassandra Soars in Mieze, Mozambique
Financial advisers, researchers, and other observers weigh in on whether churches should increase their operating budgets next year.
Compiled by Ruth Moon
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Nicole Baker Fulgham champions educational equity with Teach for America.
Mark Moring