Volume 49, Number 2
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Cover Stories
A pummeled church helps bury the dead and bring life to those who remain.
By Manpreet Singh
Muslim-Christian hostilities. Competing for qualified labor. Handling record donations. These are just three obstacles Christian aid groups must navigate.
By Agnieszka Tennant
More from this Issue
Zhang Rongliang has a high profile in China and internationally.
by CT staff
Court says Methodist church may leave denomination and keep its property.
by Kathleen K. Rutledge
Recent quotes on Christian rock in school, family films, preemies, and Bushspeak.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Launch of broad church association around the corner.
By Douglas LeBlanc
Grand Canyon University becomes the first for-profit Christian college.
By Bob Smietana, with additional reporting by Rebecca Barnes
PCUSA and same-sex marriage, persecution, and closing William Tyndale College
By CT staff
Hundreds of missionaries in Ivory Coast pull out after anti-French violence.
By Richard Nyberg in Dakar, Senegal
Let's not bash traditional Christian answers to disaster, only keep them in context.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Our children's sex is not something to be screened but gratefully received.
A Christianity Today Editorial
What's really needed after a catastrophe.
Three common strategies to check sexual 'liberation' no longer work.
by Frederica Mathewes-Green
But then, we don't want an all-powerful government any more than we want an all-powerful God.
By Bob Wenz
Forty-three families in rural Texas blend Pentecostal fervor and Anabaptist simplicity.
by Roger Olson, photos by Dan Bryant
It was hatred of women that drove me there, and Christ in community that led me out.
by Diane Mattingly
Five issues will test the strength and unity of Christian conservatives in the new term.
By Tony Carnes
Newly confident house churches open themselves up to the world.
By Richard R. Cook
Freddy Boswell describes the most audacious Bible translation project ever.
Interview by Stan Guthrie
Jewish believers in Jesus quarrel over both style and substance.
by Deborah Pardo-Kaplan
Quotations to Stir Heart and Mind
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
Churches are striving to appear 'authentic'—like the rest of consumer culture.
by Andy Crouch
A well-known psychiatrist describes and analyzes two exorcisms.
Glimpses of the Devil, reviewed by David Neff
A judgmental assessment of judgmentalism is, predictably, full of contradictions.
Reviewed by John Wilson
Mini-reviews of Calvinism in The Las Vegas Airport , Street Saints , Heaven and, The Seven Last Words from the Cross.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby
An engaging theologian questions the Jesus of modern scholars.
Reviewed by Jeremy Lott
Christians must be driven by the common good, not by any ideology.
By Charles Colson with Anne Morse