Volume 53, Number 8
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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
Amid our purity pledges and attempts to make chastity hip, we forgot to teach young Christians how to tie the knot.
Mark Regnerus
Single adults can live fulfilling lives that reveal God's goodness.
Christine A. Colón
Biological maturity signaling cultural adulthood has been the norm for most ages of human history.
Read Mercer Schuchardt
More from this Issue
Christianity Today strives to be a model for respectful conversation.
Mark Galli
Recession shuts doors of Christian schools nationwide as enrollments drop.
C. L. Lopez
Head of the US Communist Party wants to reach out to religious people, Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban burkas, and other quotes from the news.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Christians in Southeast Asia debate their right to refer to God as Allah.
Susan Wunderink
Ruling on pollution of sacred mountain may weaken religious freedom.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
Angel Food Ministries settles a lawsuit, Oral Roberts University reduces most of its debt, and other news in the Christian world.
The archbishop of the new Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) explains an alternative to the Episcopal Church.
George Conger
Gap exists between what large churches need and what seminaries produce.
Bobby Ross Jr.
Evangelicals look for reconciliation in aftermath of Asia's longest civil war.
Alicia Cohn
Megachurches are not the answer or the problem.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Online dating services argue that God can use virtual reality too.
Sarah Pulliam
Six principles that might bring a truce to the age-old tension between tradition and popular culture.
Brad Harper and Paul Louis Metzger
There is no single best way to run a country.
John Calvin with Knox Bucer-Beza
Richard Nelson Bolles on discerning God's will when facing unemployment.
Interview by John R. Throop
More congregations launch job-search programs for the unemployed.
Michael W. Michelsen Jr.
The 'non-Catholic' Latin American church is going full steam ahead—but are we on the right track?
Milton Acosta
What I've learned as life has taken a turn for what most people think is the worst.
William J. Stuntz
Christian outreach to North Koreans helps to keep millions from starving.
Tim Stafford in Pyongyang
Lessons learned between the couch and a 10k race.
Carolyn Arends
There's something more important than our intellectual framework.
Eric Miller
Short Reviews of Jesus, The Middle Eastern Storyteller, Miss Betsey, and The Sleepy Little Alphabet.
John Wilson, editor of 'Books & Culture'
Not necessarily, says Gregg A. Ten Elshof.
Michael McGowan
Nancy Guthrie, the author of Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow, offers a list of new and classic titles.
Nancy Guthrie
Kevin DeYoung defends the institutional church.
Interview by Katie Galli
Gospel gems from Ashley Cleveland and Ginny Owens.
Mark Moring
Short reviews of new albums by mewithoutYou, Julie Lee, Christopher Ames, and Mat Kearney.
'All God's Children' recalls the travails of a West Africa boarding school.
Brandon Fibbs
And the real question is who gets to decide who gets attention.
Charles Colson with Catherine Larson