Volume 50, Number 6
Read CT anywhere you go.
Subscribers have full access to CT's digital archives, including special issues. Download a PDF of this issue, or browse individual articles below.
About The Archives
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
The Da Vinci Code is raising issues that go to the heart of the Christian faith—and it's starting to confuse us all.
Gary M. Burge
More from this Issue
Contrary to precedent, few plan to boycott The Da Vinci Code.
Peter T. Chattaway
Recent comments on Intelligent Design, church architecture, and the term evangelical.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
City's response to Christian youth event poses legal question.
Brad A. Greenberg
Democrats and Republicans disagreed about what to use as a textbook.
James Jewell in Atlanta
CT spoke with Bock, Dallas Theological Seminary research professor of New Testament and author of the forthcoming The Missing Gospels (Nelson), about the stir caused by the Gospel of Judas release in early April.
Interview by Collin Hansen
Palestinian Bible Society's Gaza bookshop reopened, Biola awards Antony Flew, and Indian Christian granted bail.
CT staff
The hoopla over the Gospel of Judas is both absurd and revealing.
A Christianity Today Editorial
How to win over enemies and influence people.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Bart Ehrman's doubt as a student at Moody has turned to agnosticism.
Gary M. Burge
Not all extracanonical manuscripts reveal a 'lost Christianity.' The church's earliest discipleship manual—the Didache—is as orthodox and relevant as it gets.
William Varner
Out of 37 publishers and 240 titles, our judges selected 22 of this year's best books.
Audio is the new medium, and Christian publishers are getting the message.
Jonathan Lowe
Robert P. George explains how a simple experiment reveals the great divide in our culture.
Interview by Andy Crouch
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
European anti-Semitism is more widespread than has been let on.
David Aikman
What did Jesus mean when he said that we would do greater things than he did?—Tyler Willian, Los Angeles, California
Answered by Darrell Bock
A new book offers ministry insights for their unique challenges.
Reviewed by Mark Noll
Archeological study questions the Bible's take on Israel's united kingdom.
Reviewed by Gordon Govier
Economic globalization is an opportunity for missions says Ken Eldred.
Reviewed by Stan Guthrie
Between 1850 and 1900 evangelicals dominated the English speaking world, says David Bebbington.
Reviewed by Timothy Larsen
Michael Kazin explains why American politics needs another William Jennings Bryan.
Reviewed by Collin Hansen
This impressive history of prayer in America neglects theology.
Reviewed by Eric Miller
Jesus is the truth whether we experience him or not.
Charles Colson with Anne Morse