Christianity Today

June, 2017

Volume 61, Number 5

July/August, 2017

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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Cover Story

The World’s Biggest Trafficking Problem Remains in the Background

How Christians in Cambodia are drawing attention to labor trafficking and the quiet power of prevention.

Cover Story

Cambodians Usher in a Miraculous Moment for Christianity

How the Southeast Asian country went from an underground church to a church-planting boom.

Cover Story

Cambodia’s Child Sex Industry Is Dwindling—And They Have Christians to Thank

From rescues to legal reform, a faithful minority changed the country’s criminal landscape.

Features

A Walking Disaster

How a hurricane helped me weather my battle with cancer.

Do Children Go to Heaven When They Die?

God’s love for children is clear in Scripture, but the ‘age of accountability’ is harder to find.

How Our Unconscious Biases Shape Our Beliefs

Why we all need to get outside the echo chamber.

Why We Argue Best with Our Mouths Shut

Science reveals the power of being quick to listen and slow to speak.

The Freedom and Chaos of Sola Scriptura

Historian Mark Noll helps unravel the uses and misuses of ‘the Bible alone.’

News

The Invisible Heroes of the Persecuted Church

The case for Christians investing in the profession only 1 in 5 Americans trust.

More from this Issue

Our June Issue: In the Body of Christ, We’re All Connected

The networks and bonds between hundreds of millions of Christians never stop surprising us.

Testimony

A Local Preacher and a Jailhouse Jesus Freak Brought Me to Faith in Prison

I was sentenced to life for a murder I didn’t commit. But God didn’t forget me.

Reply All

Responses to our April issue via letters, tweets, and Facebook posts.

News

News

Defending the Faith (of Others)

Russian evangelicals’ hesitancy to back Jehovah’s Witnesses could backfire.

News

Gleanings: June 2017

Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our June issue).

News

How Christians See Muslims

Missions experts urge concern for both souls and security.

Reviews

Why the Modern World Is Making Us Miserable

Mark Sayers asks us to look to the Bible’s steadying influence in an era of cultural turmoil.

Review

Do We Treat Sunday the Way the Earliest Christians Did?

Historian Justo González charts how observance of the Lord’s Day has changed over time.

New & Noteworthy Books

Compiled by Matt Reynolds.

Excerpt

Eugene Peterson: The Pursuit of Happiness Is a Dead-End Street

How Ecclesiastes shows a better way to joyful living than chasing pleasure

Review

Flying Solo in a Family-Centered Church

Gina Dalfonzo shares an insider’s perspective on the frustrations of long-term singleness

Views

The Church’s Biggest Challenge in 2017

Let’s get unchurched evangelicals back into church, and prejudiced evangelicals back to the Bible.

Our Spiritual Gifts Have an Expiration Date

Let’s rejoice in them—while looking forward to a time when they’re no longer needed.

Additional Articles

What Science Says About the Age of Accountability

The latest research on good, evil, and infants.

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