Volume 53, Number 1
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Cover Story
Why it is dangerous to make evangelism another form of marketing.
Tyler Wigg-Stevenson
More from this Issue
Groups reconsider their presence after another killing in Afghanistan.
Compass Direct News
CIA lied, Bob Jones apologizes, eHarmony surrenders, and other quotes from the news.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Leaders hope decentralizing power will revitalize the movement.
Brandon O'Brien
African American churches leave the inner city for the suburbs.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
Wycliffe receives $50 million, Without Walls faces foreclosure, and other news in brief.
Hit by the credit crunch, lenders anticipate fewer loans to the poor.
Ken Walker
A pastor explains why his church likes to be host for football's biggest event.
Interview by Jeremy Weber
Movie theaters are the new churches. Some congregations plan to stay.
Ruth Moon
It happens to be something that evangelicals are specially gifted to meet.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Hospice care spirituality would benefit from greater Christian engagement.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Richard Foster
Richard Foster
Gary Haugen says rescuing the oppressed is within our reach.
Interview by Stan Guthrie
Publicly arguing for traditional marriage is worth it even if I don't change many minds.
Glenn T. Stanton
For over 40 years, JoeAnn Ballard has grown a ministry that has transformed thousands of lives.
Tim Stafford
Foreclosure disaster drives California churches to launch home rescue efforts.
Tony Carnes
A new breed of bands sees instruments as more than accompaniment for praise lyrics.
Joel Hartse
Amid ongoing violence, southern Sudan's Christians model a different kind of hope.
Isaac Phiri with additional reporting from Jonathan Fitzgerald
How advocacy by American Christians trims violence in Sudan.
Interview by Timothy C. Morgan
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
Do I have to love my neighbor if he breaks the law?
Carolyn Arends
The scientist's problem with God did not spring from his theory.
Dinesh D'Souza
Facing difficult passages may help us better understand the Bible as a whole.
Philip Tallon
Evangelical Disenchantment, Jesus and Philosophy, and Rapture for the Geeks.
John Wilson, editor of 'Books and Culture'
Jesus' language shows the mundane is where faith is fleshed out.
Mary M. Veeneman
My top 5 books on personal finance.
Rusty Leonard, CEO of Stewardship Partners Investment Counsel
Christianity Today's design director lists his favorite photography sites.
Gary Gnidovic
How to pray in the midst of financial catastrophe.
Philip Yancey