Evangelism: Adaptable Alpha Course Draws Praise and Worry
Popular British import has big goals for American outreach
LaTonya Taylor

Weblog: Jerusalem's Messianic Synagogue Attacked
Plus: Texas Baptists won't bolt from SBC, Christian Pokémon cards, and other stories from media around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 6/30/00

Weblog: Will Gore Go After Bush's Faith
Plus: Democrats using Bob Jones University as campaign tool, Seventh-Day Adventists sue for their name, Thomas Nelson's secret book, and other news stories from around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

From the Editor
Marshall Shelley

Called to What?
A Leadership Forum
By Erwin McManus, Glenn Wagner, and Leith Anderson

How Pastors Rate as Leaders
Leadership surveys pastors and their congregations.
Eric Reed and Collin Hansen

This World Really Is Our Home
We're not just passing through, says theologian Michael Wittmer, author of Heaven Is a Place on Earth.
By Ann Byle

Called to What?
A Leadership Forum
By Erwin McManus, Glenn Wagner, and Leith Anderson

How Pastors Rate as Leaders
Leadership surveys pastors and their congregations.
Eric Reed and Collin Hansen

Confronting Caesar
Nigerian megachurch pastor in Ukraine takes a stand for freedom.
Interview by Stan Guthrie

The Emergent Mystique
The 'emerging church' movement has generated a lot of excitement but only a handful of congregations. Is it the wave of the future or a passing fancy?
By Andy Crouch

A Steady Christian Influence
Has the nation finally abandoned its Judeo-Christian heritage, or is there still hope?
By Leith Anderson

Good Boundaries Make Good Christians
The difference between welcome and inclusion
Good Fences, reviewed by David Neff

A Steady Christian Influence
Has the nation finally abandoned its Judeo-Christian heritage, or is there still hope?
By Leith Anderson

Why the FARC Hates Evangelicals
The terrorist group has many misconceptions about Colombian Christians.
By Deann Alford, Compass Direct

A Bridge Over Troubled People
Sinners of all stripes find a church home under the I-35.
By Deann Alford

Weblog: Presbyterian Church of America Shoots for the Hip
Plus: More on Dean on religion, Clark on abortion, Jack Kelley admits he was forced to quit USA Today, and other stories from online articles around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Pastorpreneur
Tired of playing it safe, this pastor hears a higher (and harder) calling.
John Jackson

Weblog: Presbyterian Church of America Shoots for the Hip
Plus: More on Dean on religion, Clark on abortion, Jack Kelley admits he was forced to quit USA Today, and other stories from online articles around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Buzz Says Anglican Primates Won't Expel Episcopal Church USA
"John Paul II celebrates 25 years as Pope, and many other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

Weblog: Are Anglicans Getting a Pope?
"The continuing tempest over Lt. Gen. Boykin, there's no underground church in China, and many other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

Colson: What Are We Doing Here?

Emerging Values
The next generation is redefining spiritual formation, community, and mission.
Brian D. McLaren

Great to Good Churches
Eric Swanson

The Porpoise-Driven Church
What on earth (or sea) is your church here for?
Larry Levy

From the Editor
Marshall Shelley

Wizard of Odds
The Leadership Interview

The Nightmare of North Korea
One man's story of brutality, courage, love, and freedom.
By Kang Hyeok

A Laughing Child in Exchange for Sin
What exactly does courage look like in an age of abortion?
Christine A Scheller

Hobbits & Englishmen
His were small people surmounting impossible odds.
Humphrey Carpenter

The Good Fight
4 spiritual disciplines to keep fights from scarring your soul.
By Mark Buchanan

Billy Graham a No-Show at Amsterdam 2000
Evangelist, watching from Minnesota, bows out of satellite address, will probably forgo later remarks as well.
By Ted Olsen in Amsterdam | posted 7/31/00

Genius and Plod
-by Phillip Johnson

A Theology of Sound
Attentive listening.
Craig Mattson

Human Sacrifice Redux
How the church battles deadly prophets in its midst.
By Obed Minchakpu in Jos

Confronting Caesar
Nigerian megachurch pastor in Ukraine takes a stand for freedom.
Interview by Stan Guthrie

Wooing the Faithful
President Bush needs evangelicals more than ever, but it's unclear how badly they want him for another four years.
By Tony Carnes

AWOL Again on the Faith-Based Initiative
The Senate has passed on another chance to safeguard equal opportunity.
By Stanley Carlson-Thies

Weblog: Feds Granted More than $1 Billion to Religious Charities in 2003
Plus: The Joash tablet may not be a fake after all, Christians attacked in India and Egypt, our continuing (and exhausting) roundup of stories about gay marriage and The Passion, and other articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Baby Boomers for Hire
Sell-out audience crowds first-time missions recruitment event.
by Ted Olsen in Chicago

Baptists Fire Missionaries
Thirteen missionaries fired and twenty resign over the Baptist Faith and Message
staff reports

The State of Missions
The director of World Inquiry talks about the challenges and priorities of the evangelical missions community
interview with Luis Bush

The Genesis of Our Woes
Prophecy from the first book of the Bible
Martin Hengel

The Gospel According to America
Remembering the Through-a-Glass-Darkly clause
David Dark

Canterbury Crackup
Eschewing church discipline has come back to haunt Anglicans.
A Christianity Today editorial

For Everything There Is a Season
Nostalgia for nature's seasons in a climate-controlled world.
by Cindy Crosby

Reclaiming Occupied Territory
The Great Commission and the cultural commission are not in competition.
By Charles Colson with Anne Morse

A Captivating Vision
Why Chinese house churches may just end up fulfilling the Great Commission.
An interview with Paul Hattaway

The Missions of Business
What can happen when entrepreneurs think they are missionaries first.
Reviewed by John P. Cragin

Looking for a Miracle
Six million Nigerians join Bonnke revival.
By Corrie Cutrer in Lagos, Nigeria

Church Guarantees 'Express Service' for Busy Believers
Family Bible Church tries to adapt to believers in the fast lane.
By Mark I. Pinsky in Eustis, Florida | posted 6/26/00

Revival: Pensacola Outpouring Eyes Global Goals
by Steve Rabey in Pensacola

Why Don't They Listen?
John Stott on the most pernicious obstacles to effective world evangelism
Gary Barnes

Editorial: Doers of the Word
The Amsterdam Declaration illustrates how far evangelicals have come in 26 years—especially in putting ideas into practice.
A Christianity Today Editorial

Netherlands: Keeping the Covenant
Amsterdam 2000 ends with a message from Billy Graham, a promise by 10,000 evangelists, and a unifying framework for worldwide evangelism.
By Ted Olsen | posted 8/7/00

Noted Surgeon and Author Paul Brand Dies at Age 89
Connected his pioneering work with leprosy and his missionary faith
CT staff

God's Astounding Laws of Nature
"I like to think of God as developing his skills, said Dr. Paul Brand"
Philip Yancey

Christian History Corner: Medical Missions' African Legacy
"For generations, missionary doctors have healed body and soul in Africa."
Timothy C. Morgan

The Good Effects of the Good News
A convert from Islam answers critics hostile to the Christian mission
Jonathan Bonk

Weblog: Christian Radio Show Hosted By Anti-Missionary Canceled
Gracia Burnham reflects on 9/11 and more details on her rescue, and other stories from online sources around the world
Ted Olsen

Weblog: Southern Baptist Convention Won't Accept Missionaries with Female Pastors
Are Mormons really America's fastest growing church? And more stories from online sources around the world
Ted Olsen

Evangelicals & Catholics
The state of play
J. I. Packer

A Problematic Mission?
Would the Spanish friars of California's historic missions have lobbied for the separation of church and state?
By Steven Gertz

Terror on Top of the World
Maoist threats shut down development work.
By Anil Stephen

A Mapping Mission
Moral geography.
David N. Livingstone

Christianity Today News Briefs
Booting the Salvation Army, falling giving, and suing for rights.
By CT staff

Weblog: Two Iraqi Churches Bombed
Plus: Mr. Bean opposes British religious hate-crime bill, religious summit opens in Indonesia, Vatican condemns 'Christianophobia', Christmas dilemma, praying for the home team, and other articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Emerging from the Shadows
House-church Christians start renting buildings, and dream of evangelism.
Runo Samuelson in Baghdad

Weblog: Did Nobel Committee Ignore MRI Creator Because of Creationism?
"The faith-based initiative hold-up, freedom to worship at home, and other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

Doors into Islam
September 11 has only intensified the dangers and rewards of Muslim evangelism
Stan Guthrie

Do Drink the Water
"Disillusioned missionary, 'Spirit-inspired' invention transform church's ministry in the Dominican Republic."
Dean Nelson

NEWS: Religious Nonprofits Fight for Government Funds
Randy Frame

NEWS: Bennett Issues Tape to Donors

Reaching the Post-Christian
They're today's non-seekers, who've seen Christianity and think they have reasons for rejecting it.
By Daniel Hill

Operation Human Rights
How evangelicals got outside their comfort zone to help the oppressed overseas.
By David Neff

Smuggling Cats for a Gay Celebrity
Love took an unusual expression for this man dying of AIDS.
By Jonathan David Taylor

Red-faced Pastor in a Blue State
Amid political tensions, when is a pastor to speak out and when to refrain?
By Gordon Macdonald

Same-Sex Marriage: What Can I Say?
Four pastors discuss the pressures and opportunities of the current controversy.
Forum: Phil Busbee, Tony Campolo, Cheryl Sanders, and John Yates

'Jesus Tax' Plan Dies
Alabama's fiscal debate exposes a divide between Christians
Collin Hansen

Go Figure
Statistics and numbers on the Protestant clergy shortage and The Prayer of Jabez
Ted Olsen

Editorials: Wanna Buy a Bioethicist?
Some corporations have discovered that bioethics makes good public relations

Zambian Churches and Lawyers Oppose Presidential Plan for Third Term
"Evangelicals, Catholics, and others unite against changing country's constitution."
Anthony Kunda

Directions: Can the Dead Be Converted?
A "choice" for Jesus is not like choosing a meal from a menu.
J. I. Packer

My Church's inferiority Complex
How one congregation traded the poor little us mindset for new confidence.
Peter Youmans

Currents Shaping My Church: How Smaller Churches Grow
The secret includes goals and Wal-Mart.

Holy Mr Herbert
Elesha Coffman

Directions: Can the Dead Be Converted?
A "choice" for Jesus is not like choosing a meal from a menu.
J. I. Packer

ARTICLE: Missions' New World Order
The twenty-first century calls for us to give up our nineteenth-century models for worldwide ministry.
Samuel Escobar

ARTICLE: Why We Go
Recapturing our motivation for missions.
Samuel Hugh Moffett

Yankee Stadium Strike Out
Latest Benke ruling reveals deep fissures among Missouri Synod Lutherans
Todd Hertz

Benke Suspended for 'Syncretism' after 9/11 Event
Interfaith prayer exposes divisions in LCMS
Todd Hertz

The Interfaith Public Square
"Stand up, stand up for Jesus at civic events."
A Christianity Today editorial

Targeted Apologetics
Encountering New Religious Movements with the Gospel.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

Watch Those Web Postings
What Indians say American Christians should, and shouldn't, do to help.
Tim Stafford

The CT Review: Reimagining Missions
Two scholars seek to rescue the Great Commission from narrowly evangelistic readings, but their answers may be dangerously wide
Stan Guthrie

New York's New Hope
From inner-city gardens, to fine-art exhibitions, to political activism, street-smart churches are changing the culture of America's largest and most dynamic city.
By Tony Carnes

Christian History Corner: From Beer to Bibles to VBS
How America got its favorite summer tradition
Steven Gertz

From the Editor
Marshall Shelley

Colson: What Are We Doing Here?

Authentic Fellowship
How do we learn the deep 'one another' community of Scripture without being in close proximity?
Karen Shepard

A Journalist in Babylon
The need for a critical mass in the Fourth Estate
Stan Guthrie

Witnessing with The Passion
Christians gear up to evangelize - with help from Mel Gibson.
Ken Walker

Colson: What Are We Doing Here?

Acting Christian
Nuanced testimony in a new mission field: the theater
Arthur Menke