Christianity Today

March, 2004

Volume 48, Number 3

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The Passion of Mel Gibson: Why Evangelicals are Cheering a 'Catholic' Film

Cover Story

Cover Story

The Passion of Mel Gibson

Why evangelicals are cheering a movie with profoundly Catholic sensibilities.

Features

Network for the Alienated

Episcopal conservatives seek to reclaim wayward church.

Border Crackdown

Government seeks to stamp out North Korea refugee problem

Discarding Our Masks

In True Faced, readers learn to strip off their masks.

Incarnate Forever

What is the scriptural and theological support for the teaching that Jesus, the God-man, remains eternally incarnate?

Inside <em>CT</em>: Coming Attractions

Movies, magazines, and critics

Islamic Board Gets Green Light

Tribunal to arbitrate that civil cases can appeal to Muslim legal principles.

Black Theology Revisited

Two authors argue that this strain of liberation theology is as relevant as ever.

Quake Opens Door to Gospel

How Christians are trying to ease tensions in the Islamic Republic.

Relationships, Not Programs

Taking a church from dry bones to spiritual vitality

The Good News of God’s Wrath

At the heart of the universe, there is a just and gracious God.

Vacation Bible School Wars

Critics say SBC curriculum about Asia is ‘racially offensive.’

Worship Style Matters

Developing biblical foundations for understanding worship.

A Home for Nomads

M. Craig Barnes explores spirituality for restless souls

A Law that Shouldn’t be Cloned

New Jersy legalizes human cloning for research.

Hindu Extremes

Congrassmen appalled at religious persecution of Christians and Muslims.

Q & A: Franklin Graham

President of Samaritan’s Purse on Sudan

Discarding Our Masks

In True Faced, readers learn to strip off their masks.

The Passion of Mel Gibson

Why evangelicals are cheering a movie with profoundly Catholic sensibilities.

The Passion and Prejudice

Why I asked the Anti-Defamation League to give Mel Gibson a break.

How the Late Carl Henry Helped Invent Evangelicalism

No one was more pivotal to the emerging movement than Carl F.H. Henry

Burma’s Almost Forgotten

Christians find themselves battered by the world’s longest civil war and a brutally repressive regime

America’s Pastor

With Max Lucado, what you see is what you get. And what you get is a man who incarnates a message about second chances.

An Unusual Church of Christ

Lucado has been making some controversial changes

News

News

Quotation Marks

Recent quotes on abortion, marriage, and missions

News

Multi(per)plexed

Christians remain divided about what a ‘good’ movie is

News

Go Figure

Recent statistics on happiness, faith-based prisons, and Canada’s evangelicals

News

Passages

Deaths, promotions, and other tidbits from the religion world.

News

Challenging Canyon Orthodoxy

Controversy over book with young-earth views raises protests – and sales.

Reviews

The Fountain Fill’d wth Blood

Mel Gibson is drawing on a long tradition of Cross-centered devotion.

Views

Cry, the Beloved Continent

Don’t let AIDS steal African children’s future.

Editorial

Forget Your Bliss

The success of The Purpose-Driven Life reveals a cultural opportunity.

Misfires in the Tolerance Wars

Separating church and state now means separating belief and action.

Jesus’ Cross

Quotations to stir heart and mind.

A Politics of Gratitude

Stop whining, count your blessings, and love your global neighbors.

Editorial

A Question of Faith

Top Democrats have much work ahead to convince voters of their religious sincerity.

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