Christianity Today

August, 2009

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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.

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An Ocean of Sorrow

Biological maturity signaling cultural adulthood has been the norm for most ages of human history.

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The Waiting Game

Single adults can live fulfilling lives that reveal God’s goodness.

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With Parents’ Help

Newlyweds will need our financial help for a while.

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The Case for Early Marriage

Amid our purity pledges and attempts to make chastity hip, we forgot to teach young Christians how to tie the knot.

Features

Three Gifts for Hard Times

What I’ve learned as life has taken a turn for what most people think is the worst.

Books Uncommon and Offbeat

Short Reviews of Jesus, The Middle Eastern Storyteller, Miss Betsey, and The Sleepy Little Alphabet.

Feeding Hope Under a Rogue Regime

Christian outreach to North Koreans helps to keep millions from starving.

Reasoning Together

Christianity Today strives to be a model for respectful conversation.

Restless, Reformed, and Single

Online dating services argue that God can use virtual reality too.

Power Pentecostalisms

The ‘non-Catholic’ Latin American church is going full steam ahead—but are we on the right track?

News

News

Career Counseling in Church

More congregations launch job-search programs for the unemployed.

News

Q & A: Robert Duncan

The archbishop of the new Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) explains an alternative to the Episcopal Church.

News

What’s in a Name?

Christians in Southeast Asia debate their right to refer to God as Allah.

News

Friend or Foe?

Recent technological advances may hurt the pro-life movement.

News

Go Figure

Get the numbers on gays who say they have made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ, Lutherans in Germany, and changes in charitable giving.

News

School’s Out Forever

Recession shuts doors of Christian schools nationwide as enrollments drop.

News

Quotation Marks

Head of the US Communist Party wants to reach out to religious people, Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban burkas, and other quotes from the news.

News

One in the Spirit

Evangelicals look for reconciliation in aftermath of Asia’s longest civil war.

News

News Briefs: August 01, 2009

Angel Food Ministries settles a lawsuit, Oral Roberts University reduces most of its debt, and other news in the Christian world.

News

Let It Snow

Ruling on pollution of sacred mountain may weaken religious freedom.

News

Passages

John Stek dies, Richard and Philip Cunningham sentenced, Sheila Schuller Coleman appointed, and other transitions in the Christian world.

News

The Workers Are Few

Gap exists between what large churches need and what seminaries produce.

News

Desert Deaths

Martyrdoms threaten to displace Christian workers from Yemen.

Reviews

The Purpose-Driven Job Hunter

Richard Nelson Bolles on discerning God’s will when facing unemployment.

Review

CDs on The List

Short reviews of new albums by mewithoutYou, Julie Lee, Christopher Ames, and Mat Kearney.

Why Churchless Christianity Doesn’t Work

Kevin DeYoung defends the institutional church.

Here We Are to Worship

Six principles that might bring a truce to the age-old tension between tradition and popular culture.

Review

New Music: Two for the Soul

Gospel gems from Ashley Cleveland and Ginny Owens.

Review

Putting Worldview in Its Place

There’s something more important than our intellectual framework.

My Top 5 Books on Loss

Nancy Guthrie, the author of Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow, offers a list of new and classic titles.

Review

Is Self-Deception Always Bad?

Not necessarily, says Gregg A. Ten Elshof.

Views

Readers Write

Your responses to the June 2009 issue of Christianity Today.

The Only ‘Christian Nation’

There is no single best way to run a country.

Editorial

Mega-mirror

Megachurches are not the answer or the problem.

Matter Matters

Lessons learned between the couch and a 10k race.

We Need Health-Care Reform

And the real question is who gets to decide who gets attention.

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