Christianity Today

May, 2018

Volume 62, Number 4

June, 2018
Remembering Billy Graham - April, 2018

While Christianity Today has covered church special-needs ministries fairly extensively, far less attention has been given to the ministry that individuals with intellectual disabilities themselves have. This issue explores the ministry of those with intellectual disability, surveying the diverse ways they are serving the body of Christ in churches and faith communities.

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Cover Story

Cover Story

The Ministry of the Disabled

How Christians with intellectual disabilities are serving churches (not just being served by them).

Features

How to Become America’s Fastest-Growing Church? Think Like a Startup.

Cincinnati’s Crossroads uses entrepreneurial strategies for gospel ends.

Stop Apologizing for Apologetics

But it might be time for it to grow up.

Reading Together, Early Church Style

New historical research by Brian J. Wright shows that early Christians were surprisingly bookish.

Jesus Showed Up in My Anatomy Lab

What dissecting bodies taught me about the passion story and life after death.

More from this Issue

A Spirit Thing

Billy Graham’s God-given vision for a magazine of “conviction and love.”

Reply All

Responses to our March issue.

The Power of Our Inability

The glory and failing of the human body—it’s all God’s grace.

Testimony

‘These Bombs Led Me to Christ’

The “Napalm Girl” from a famous Vietnam War photo tells her story of coming to faith.

News

News

Gleanings: May 2018

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

News

Sectarian Cinema: Oscars Highlight Muslim Defense of Persecuted Christians

“Watu Wote” shows the power and limits of African and Arab films to probe interfaith relations.

News

Rwanda Weeds the Church Plants

Thousands of churches closed in attempt to curb bad buildings—and bad preaching.

Reviews

The Global Scourge of Violence Against Women

From sex-selective abortion to sexual abuse, it encompasses the entire female life cycle.

Review

The Origin Story of Martin Luther King Jr.

How the civil-rights hero honed his preaching skills and prophetic vision at a Northern liberal seminary.

Review

Southern Christianity Is Bigger Than the Bible Belt

A scholar’s journey through the region reveals much more than Baptists and church barbecues.

New & Noteworthy Books

The quest for the historical apostles, exporing Noah’s flood, and rediscovering the gospel at the Lord’s table.

Excerpt

The Two Kinds of Government That Show Up in the Bible

They have different responses to God. And He has different responses to them.

Views

Editorial

God’s Peace Is Not Always God’s

How to know when our feelings are truly from the Spirit.

Martha, You Don’t Have to Be Mary

In Luke’s famous sister rivalry, Jesus isn’t warning against busyness.

Whatever Happened to Gifts of Language, Prophecy, and Healing?

Let’s ask the early church fathers.

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