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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.
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
Egypt’s Identity Impasse
Former Muslims seek to change their government-issued cards as outreach gains ground.
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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.
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Passages
Ted Haggard exits spiritual restoration program, remembering David F. Wright and Ruth Stafford Peale, and more news.
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Hazy Faith-Based Future
Charitable-choice funding will face challenges under the new administration.
Reviews
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.
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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.