Christianity Today

July, 2010

Volume 54, Number 7

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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

Public Theology Project

Why Every Christian Is Called to Support Adoption

Abba changes everything.

Features

Love Where You Live

Urban, suburban, and rural churches respond to new challenges in a less mobile era.

Churches Adopt Adoption

Churches are getting real about adoption’s challenges—and helping families after the child arrives.

Evangelism vs. Missions?

Southern Baptists contemplate unleashing the IMB at home.

More from this Issue

Class Action

Nicole Baker Fulgham champions educational equity with Teach for America.

Adoption Is Everywhere

Even God is into it.

News

News

Go Figure

Stats on clergy jobs, faith and politics, and the abortion debate’s “new normal.”

News

A Hand Up: Aid for Trade in Mozambique

Faith-based model teaches rural poor how to use trade to rise out of poverty.

News

Quotation Marks

Chuck Swindoll’s last wish, Ann Curry’s mix-up, and more.

News

Sheep Stealing Studied

Presbyterians weigh guidelines for reformists.

News

Should Churches Increase 2011 Budgets?

Financial advisers, researchers, and other observers weigh in on whether churches should increase their operating budgets next year.

Reforming Health Care Reform

How states are blocking abortion coverage.

News

Mixed Blessings

Love offerings prove taxing.

News

‘Freedom of Worship’ Worries

New religious freedom rhetoric within the Obama administration draws concern.

Reviews

Review

A Needed Clamor

Documentary seeks answer to its own title: ‘The End of Poverty?’

Christian Zionism in the Dock

Two documentaries take on the controversial theology.

Review

Real Presence

What can happen when a thoroughly secular woman eats a piece of bread. A review of ‘Jesus Freak.’

Vainly Naming the Name

Cussing isn’t our only problem—though that’s bad enough.

Books to Note

Short reviews of recent books worth considering.

Excerpt

The Christian Atheist

Believing in God but living as if he doesn’t exist.

Wilson’s Bookmarks

‘Pearl Buck in China,’ ‘The Flight of the Intellectuals,’ and ‘Here Comes the Garbage Barge.’

Focus on the Females

James Dobson explains his ideas for raising daughters, and life after Focus.

Review

Screwtape for New Atheists

‘The Loser Letters’ pokes serious fun at a mostly humorless movement.

My Top 5 Books on Orphan Care

Picks from Jedd Medefind, president, the Christian Alliance for Orphans.

The Authentic Bonhoeffer

Eric Metaxas explains how the German theologian lived a life worth examining.

Views

Frozen Embryos: Biotech’s Hidden Dilemma

What should be done with frozen embryos left at fertility clinics?

Stride Toward Peace: The Mideast’s Nonviolent Moment

Risking love in a land of violence.

Editorial

Bearing True Witness

Why we are tempted to embellish conversion stories.

Additional Articles

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