Christianity Today

February, 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.

Cover Story

Cover Story

Sci-Fi’s Brave New World

How the genre draws us to its own views of redemption.

Features

Searching for Radical Faith

I traveled from Portland to Delhi, and this is what I found.

Q&A: Louie Giglio

The Passion Conference founder talks about his overseas tour and the new church he has started with Matt Redman and Chris Tomlin.

Meager Harvest

The Green Bible promises to grow our understanding of creation care. Unfortunately, its results don’t satisfy.

Books Uncommon and Offbeat

I Heard God Talking to Me, The Final Martyrs, and Paranoia.

Bush’s Faith-Based Legacy

Key policies at home and overseas will help victims of poverty and disease for years to come.

News

News

California’s Temper Tantrum

How the gay rights movement lost more than Proposition 8.

News

Yechiel Eckstein: Evangelicals’ Favorite Rabbi

The ultimate kibitzer wants Jews to trust evangelicals, and evangelicals to love Israel.

News

Political Exile

A strategy for social conservatives in a socially liberal era.

News

Quotation Marks

Recent remarks on proselytizing, Rick Warren, and whether to say ‘Merry Christmas.’

News

Smuggling Debate

Ministries disagree on how best to provide Bibles to Chinese Christians.

News

Gas-Powered Gospels

Christians in South Korea use helium-filled balloons to spread gospel tracts.

News

Get ‘Lost’

Acclaimed show asks big questions.

News

Atheists’ Outreach

Debating God on public transit draws Christian response.

News

News Briefs: February 01, 2009

Where David battled Goliath, missionaries who were found guilty, and other news in brief.

News

Passages

Recent deaths and other transitions in the Christian world.

News

Go Figure

How many evangelicals believe Judaism can lead to eternal life, and other numbers from the news.

News

Fault Line of Faith

Six pastors killed, 40 churches razed in Jos’s most recent violence.

News

Prosperity Gospel on Skid Row

Difficulties of high-profile pastors may reorient movement—or reinforce it.

News

Readers Write

Your responses to the December 2008 issue of Christianity Today.

News

Stocks Squeeze Seminaries

Financial crisis may claim more evangelical schools in 2009.

Reviews

Review

Novel Teachers

Learning real-life lessons from imaginary ministers.

Review

Making Movies to Change the World

2008 was the year of socially conscious documentaries.

CDs on The List

Short reviews of new albums by Compassionart, Downhere, Jason Gray, and Ben Shive.

Review

Live: Hope at the Hideout

At 69, the soul and gospel queen is still electrifying.

Bibliophiles We

Did we mention that we love books?

Review

Learning from Secular Nations

In ‘godless’ Scandinavia, people are content. Is that enough?

2009 Christianity Today Book Awards

Judges whittled 436 submissions down to 10 winners.

Views

Reverence for the Mystery

God does not have to answer to us for his ways.

Editorial

Who Do You Think You Are?

The global church needs to ground youth in their true, deepest identity.

Memo to Worship Bands

Five sound reasons to lower the volume.

Additional Articles

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