Christianity Today

April, 2008

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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

Cover Story

How to Save the Christian Bookstore

(Hint: Stop making it so religious.)

Features

The Healing Pen

Philip Yancey writes to save his past—and others’ futures.

Dear Disillusioned Generation

The ‘failed experiment’ called the church still looks better than the alternatives.

A Jesus for Real Men

What the new masculinity movement gets right and wrong.

The Elusive Middle

Jim Wallis’s attempt to transcend party politics in The Great Awakening never takes off.

Rescuing Bookstores

An Open-Handed Gospel

We have to decide whether we have a stingy or a generous God.

A Merciful White Flash

While despairing of nuclear annihilation, I received an irresistible consolation.

Q&A: Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka

The vice president of Kenya since January, Musyoka ran for the presidency unsuccessfully in 2007.

News

News

Yes, Nominal Evangelicals Exist

But they are an opportunity, not a scandal.

News

Egypt’s Identity Impasse

Former Muslims seek to change their government-issued cards as outreach gains ground.

News

Political Eyes Wide Open

Helping Kenya begins by rejecting simplistic analyses and solutions.

News

Go Figure

Recent statistics on religious affiliation in the U.S.

News

News Briefs: April 01, 2008

PCUSA bars non-celibate gay clergy, Answers in Genesis launches online journal, and a NY court rules out-of-state same-sex marriages are valid.

News

Quotation Marks

Recent comments by Andy Pettitte, Bill Clinton, and others.

News

Passages

Ted Haggard exits spiritual restoration program, remembering David F. Wright and Ruth Stafford Peale, and more news.

News

Indigenous Indignation

Investigators accuse YWAM of squelching tribal cultures.

News

Looking Back

Claims to new Sodom locations are salted with controversy.

News

Hazy Faith-Based Future

Charitable-choice funding will face challenges under the new administration.

News

‘My Heart Is in Gaza’

A dwindling Christian population battles fear and economic hardship.

News

Council Clash

WCC head to step down amid doctorate scandal.

News

The Other Baptists

New alliance may be more partisan than it lets on.

Reviews

Review

A Musical <em>Lectio Divina</em>

Ryan Lott’s meditative, mystical, and mesmerizing debut.

Bookmarks

Short reviews of books on jihadism, the Lord’s Supper, and Steve Martin.

The CEO Who Takes Greek Exegesis

The experience of Zondervan’s new head, Maureen ‘Moe’ Girkins, hints at the future of Christian publishing.

Bringing the Bookstore to Church

More and more churches get into the book business.

Locking the Doors for the Last Time

Customers ‘feel like one of their family members has died.’

Excerpt

Heaven Is Not Our Home

The bodily resurrection is the good news of the gospel—and thus our social and political mandate.

2008 Christianity Today Book Awards

This year, 49 publishers nominated 359 titles published in 2007. CT editors selected the top books in each category, and then panels of judges — one panel per category — voted. In the end, we chose 10 winners and gave 11 awards of merit to the books that best shed light on people, events, and ideas that shape evangelical life, thought, and mission. Selections from judges’ comments are below.

Views

Keeping Pets in Their Place

Why we can’t afford to treat animals like they’re humans.

Wiping out HIV

It’s good for the soul to fight the virus.

Children

Quotations to stir heart and mind.

A Multifaceted Gospel

Why evangelicals shouldn’t be threatened by new tellings of the Good News.

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