Volume 48, Number 11
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Cover Story
The 'emerging church' movement has generated a lot of excitement but only a handful of congregations. Is it the wave of the future or a passing fancy?
Andy Crouch
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Newspaper investigates Christian network over sex charges, spending.
By Religion News Service, staff reports
Recent quotes on morality, Bush and God, the fertility gap, LA County cross, and missions in India.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Latin America director of Casa Alianza had sex with a teen.
By Kenneth D. MacHarg in San José, Costa Rica
Campus evangelism at New Orleans, Passion sales, the ark hunt fails, and the persecution watch.
By CT staff
President of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), on his five-week national bus tour, which ended October 7, to jump-start evangelism in the 16.3-million-member denomination. The SBC has experienced a four-year decline in baptisms.
Interview by Stan Guthrie
Single-issue politics is neither necessary nor wise.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Falling birthrates demand new priorities for families.
A Christianity Today Editorial
The place of absolute truths in a postmodern world—two views.
By Brian McLaren and Duane Litfin
My difficult unplanned pregnancy impelled me to show a little more grace.
By Jemila Monroe
Ted Baehr tells parents to use common sense and cognitive development theory.
Interview by David Neff
A curious alliance of helping professionals is working to rebuild marriage in a culture of divorce.
By Tim Stafford
Christian-Muslim violence requires a 'new' missions strategy: Forgiveness and love.
By Obed Minchakpu in Jos
Christians help lead a worldwide movement opposing graft.
By Tony Carnes
A conversation with the head of the Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement.
By Mark Galli
Why do some scientists and politicians insist on exploiting embryos?
Interview with C. Christopher Hook
What harm is there in achieving a higher state of consciousness through meditation?
By Douglas Groothuis
Tangled Up in The Bible translates Dylan's use of scripture.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby
It can be hard to trust, but failing to is worse.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby
A longtime TV physician's tortuous search leads to an informal apologetic.
Jeff M. Sellers
Searching for God Knows What: Stimulating ideas about the Christian life.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby
What will it take for us to overcome this violent world?
By Philip Yancey