Christianity Today

February, 2007

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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

Making Airwaves

Goodbye Old-Fashioned Revival Hour. Hello ‘safe for the whole family.’ Meet the company that’s transforming Christian radio.

Features

The Wilberforce Strategy

Britain’s great abolitionist worked to change society’s values, not just its laws.

The Town that Loves Refugees

Christians in Utica, New York are resettling the world one displaced soul at a time.

Belonging Before Believing

Reimagining Evangelism for a millennial generation.

The Early Church on Jesus

Ben Witherington offers a potpourri of thoughts about early Christian belief.

The Suburb of God

The Suburban Christian is a sympathetic analysis.

Three Models of Hell

“Is hell nothing more than eternal torture of the unsaved? Why would God engage in punishment that seems so cruel?” — Tony De Luca, New York, New York

A Community of the Broken

A young organization models what it might mean to be the church in a suffering world.

Rigorous Joy

The Lost Virtue of Happiness says happiness comes from pursuing goodness, not pleasure.

The Problem with Mere Christianity

We jettison ‘nonessential’ theology at our own peril.

By Women, for Women

Women’s Evangelical Commentary offers a complementarian perspective.

The United Nations’ Disarray

The decline of the human-rights agenda, and what evangelicals can do about it.

Can We Dialogue with Islam?

What 38 Muslim scholars said to the pope in a little-known open letter.

Praying the Psalms

James Sire teaches us to Pray Through the Psalms.

Saints Gone Wild

Saints Behaving Badly tells about what went on before saints’ conversions.

Impressively Invisible

Madison Trammel disappears in his writing.

Dollars and Sense

How Salem Communications makes its money.

Striking Out the Liberals

Conservative Christians are the hope of America, says Salem host Frank Pastore.

Five Streams of the Emerging Church

Key elements of the most controversial and misunderstood movement in the church today.

Mega-Headache

Church fights town restrictions on services.

Exit Interviews

Why blacks are leaving evangelical ministries.

Asbury Flap

Seminary in crisis after board ousts president.

Modernity’s Art Form

A lush guide to film through Christian eyes.

News

News

Andrew Walls: Historian Ahead of His Time

Why this Christian scholar may be the most important person you don’t know.

News

Nepal’s New Peacemakers

Christians become voice for freedom after national crisis.

News

Death-Defying Ministry

Protestant leaders practice grassroots justice–and keep a low profile.

News

A Boom for Missions

Early boomer retirees are giving back in big numbers.

News

Go Figure

Recent statistics on who voted Democrat and churches offering election materials.

News

My Ministry Space

Youth pastors track popular networking website.

News

News Briefs: February 01, 2007

Local Church’s petition denied, apology to Anabaptists, reward for AIDS work, and bankrupt tithing.

News

Compassionate Conservatives

Study: Religious people give more than secular, even to nonreligious charities.

News

What Iraq’s Christians Need

Two strategies to build up the church in the war-weary nation.

News

Quotation Marks

Comments on Chavez’s Jesus, Bible widgets, and more.

News

Equal-Opportunity Offender

Uzbek government crackdown on Muslims worries evangelicals.

News

Passages

Remembering Hoke and Garcia; Hunter resigns; Deng honored.

News

Miracle Vote

Churches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo rejoice over first free elections in 46 years.

News

Riding the Pope’s Coattails

Protestants hope to share in the benefits of Turkey trip.

Reviews

Review

Film: Modernity’s Art Form

‘Through a Screen Darkly’ is a lush guide to film through Christian eyes.

Defining Business Success

A CEO on why core values are not enough.

Views

Compassionate Bedfellow

Ten years ago, a Jewish leader shamed Christians into caring.

Reflections: Winter

Quotations on the coldest time of the year to stir heart and mind.

Editorial

The New Intolerance

Fear mongering among elite atheists is not a pretty sight.

Bottom-Up Discipline

What do you do when your pastor–or your entire denomination–strays?

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