Volume 46, Number 5
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Evangelicals and U2's singer try to figure each other out.
Timothy C. Morgan
"Comments on abstinence, fundamentalism, and producing clean hip-hop music."
Ted Olsen
Campus Crusade for Christ evangelism stirs controversy and debate.
Ted Olsen
New York attorney general goes after crisis pregnancy centers.
Sheryl Henderson Blunt
CTV adds a second beat reporter and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation devotes part of a new show to religion.
John Longhurst
Jewish leaders seek meeting before June outreach.
LaTonya Taylor
Andersen insurer pulls plug on Baptist Foundation of Arizona settlement.
Chuck Fager
Conservative leaders say they want to rebuild the church Jesus' way.
Robert P. Mills
He urges evangelicals to take a lead in fighting AIDS and poverty.
Sheryl Henderson
Some Southern Baptist missionaries balk at revised statement.
Corrie Cutrer
"After a long legal battle in Moscow, the Army gets hope that there is justice."
Geraldine Fagan
Orthodox demand that British give back all looted sacred items.
Odhiambo Okite
The late President's tapes brought more pain—and a genuine act of repentance.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Evangelicals must not pretend to be immune to sexual sin by clergy or volunteers
A Christianity Today Editorial
"Here are the books our judges—200 pastors, scholars, and church leaders—considered the worthiest this year."
"In the realm of mental balance and personal peace, Sigmund Freud had nothing on C. S. Lewis."
David Neff
Both Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis were emotionally wounded as boys and struggled with depression as men. But a worldview can make a tremendous difference.
David Neff
"Introductions to theological thinking need not be dry, bloated, or inaccessible."
Roger E. Olson
My road to faith was paved with great literature.
Mark Storer
Reference works that provide pound-for-pound excellence.
Rich Poll
Quotations to stir the heart and mind about writing.
Richard A. Kauffman
Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture is 50 years old—and still has something wise to say to evangelicals.
John G. Stackhouse Jr.
Won't heaven's joy be spoiled by our awareness of unsaved loved ones in hell?
J. I. Packer
Much of Jesus scholarship is about neither the historical Jesus nor good scholarship.
Jeremy Lott
In The Rookie, reconciliation is even tougher work than breaking into the majors
Douglas LeBlanc
We need to proclaim truth to a truth-impaired generation
Charles Colson