Volume 50, Number 4
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Cover Story
Three leaders talk frankly about Pentecostalism: the good, the bad, and the unpredictable.
Interview by Madison Trammel and Rob Moll
More from this Issue
Recent comments by John Roberts, John Piper, Kelly Clark, and Pat Robertson.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
How your church and your pastor may prevent the predictable.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Muslims aren't the only ones guilty of acting out inappropriately.
A Christianity Today Editorial
What will it take for this world phenomenon to stay vibrant for another 100 years?
Grant McClung
One reason Randy and Paula White's Without Walls is one of the country's fastest-growing congregations.
Rob Moll
Those who are pro-life and pro-family should have no problem being pro-human.
Glenn T. Stanton
God used a movie about gay cowboys to release me from the burden of my past.
Dennis Belkofer
Asian Americans populate America's elite colleges more than ever—and campus ministries even more than that.
Tim Stafford
Getting some perspective (250 million years' worth) on the evolution controversy.
John Wilson
Acclaimed physicist Sir John Houghton discusses his motives and passion for a cooler world climate.
Interview by David Neff
More than 10,000 employees weighed in on their jobs.
Agnieszka Tennant
Christians try to negotiate ministry in southern Africa's most failed state.
Isaac Phiri
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
How two creatures dig a rabbit hole in my disbelief.
Agnieszka Tennant
Don't patronize or belittle Rwandan Christians committed to progress.
Augustin Ahimana Murekezi
The culture war's biggest casualties may be Christian joy and hope.
Andy Crouch
An admiring biography doesn't smooth out the complications of James Dobson.
Tim Stafford
Studying Geneva's sexual reformation has lessons for today.
Reviewed by Mark Noll
Archbishop wants Christians, left and right, to learn from church history.
David Neff
A Christian journalist seeks to understand the burgeoning pagan religion.
Reviewed by Irving Hexham
A family crisis in a Midwestern town set the stage for Vinita Hampton Wright's latest novel.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby
Journeying to faith through the work of musicians, artists, and ministers.
Reviewed by LaTonya Taylor
New study Bibles aim to help three especially committed constituencies.
CT staff
Too often maligned, the faith has contributed much to our culture.
Reviewed by Mark Noll
The Message of the New Testament shows how Jesus carries out the Old Testament.
Reviewed by Collin Hansen
Should we give people what they want or what they need?
Charles Colson with Anne Morse