Briefs: The World

Church Growth: Adventists Multiply in Asia
At General Conference, denomination reports 10 percent growth in 1999
By Mark A. Kellner | posted 7/7/00

Briefs: The World

A Preaching Woman
The remarkable story of a former slave sheds light on the origins of African American Christianity.
Jonathon Kahn

You Have the Right to Be Rich
But you have to earn it.
Patton Dodd

Battling Bigotry
Widow seeks to stem growing tide of hate crimes
Bob Smietana

The Christian History Timeline: Black Christianity Before the Civil War
A Christian History timeline
A. G. Miller

You Must Not Kneel Here
One April Sunday, Richard and fellow black Methodists decided they wouldn't stand for prejudice anymore.
Will Gravely

The Gallery: The Fruit of Freedom
When given even a limited opportunity to grow, these African-American Christians blossomed.
Mark Sidwell

Resistance Movement
Looking beneath the surface of pop culture
Nathan Bierma

Christian History Corner: Camp Fire
The earliest recorded Methodist camp meeting in America took place 200 years ago this week.
By Mark Galli | posted 6/30/00

Letters

CT Classic: Admen for Heaven
"Opening up minds is the first step to regular church attendance, Episcopal Ad Project says"
David Neff

Web's Latest Craze is The Prayer of Reata
"Yes, the Pope really is Catholic, and other stories from media sources around the world."
Ted Olsen

NEWS: Pentecostals Renounce Racism
Memphis gathering begins mending historic rift.
J. Lee Grady

7 Habits of Racially Mixed Churches
How to achieve ethnic diversity—and die (to self) trying.
Reviewed by Douglas R. Sharp

Bill Cosby Was (Mostly) Right
But he overlooks the redemptive role of the church.
By Stan Guthrie

Weblog: Prayer Breakfast Feedback
Also: 60 Minutes' apparent cluelessness on evangelicals. Did Kurt Warner fumble comments on faith vs. football? And other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Letter from London
Susan Wise Bauer

The Barbarians Have Come
Reinhold Niebuhr's daughter examines her fellow Christians and finds most of them wanting.
by Paul C. Merkley

Film Forum: Secondhand Lions Roars
"Religious press film critics applaud Secondhand Lions and Bonhoeffer, but criticize Underworld, Cold Creek Manor, and Anything Else. Plus, more on Thirteen, Lost in Translation, The Lion King, and The Fighting Temptations"
Jeffrey Overstreet

Shelling the Salvation Army
"If William Booth's church could handle sticks and stones in the 1880s, it should withstand the recent barrage of hateful words"
Elesha Coffman

Web's Latest Craze is The Prayer of Reata
"Yes, the Pope really is Catholic, and other stories from media sources around the world."
Ted Olsen

Memorable Memoirs
"Whether telling us about the Spirit in the South or the crumbling atheism of a Chinese immigrant, these books provide windows into others' lives."
John Wilson

Editorials: Dismantling the Salvation Army
In maintaining integrity, Salvationists got the Boy Scout treatment
Christianity Today Editorial

Naked Truths
"Critics weigh in on what makes nudity in film wrong, right, and R-rated"
Jeffrey Overstreet

Shelling the Salvation Army
"If William Booth's church could handle sticks and stones in the 1880s, it should withstand the recent barrage of hateful words"
Elesha Coffman

Christian History Corner: Do Nigerian Miracle Ministries Discredit the Faith?
The spiritual dynamism of West African Christianity is now well known even in the West. Do credulity-stretching, highly publicized miracles discredit what God is doing in that region?
By Chris Armstrong

Christian History Corner: Timeline of the Spirit-gifted
Before Moody, Finney, Edwards, and Mather came a long line of Catholic and Orthodox believers reputed to enjoy the promise of the Father.
Chris Armstrong

Christian History Corner: Do Non-Charismatics 'Do' Holy Spirit Baptism?
Ask D. L. Moody, Charles G. Finney, Jonathan Edwards, or Cotton Mather
Chris Armstrong

Father Brown Fakes the Shroud
Start with a piece of glass and some white oil paint
N. D. Wilson

Whose Natural Theology?
Alan Jacobs

Hearing Voices
How can you tell a prophet from a fruitcake? (Hint: If you're instructed to murder someone, be skeptical)
Tim Stafford

"Christian History Corner: Muscular Christianity's Prodigal Son, College Sports"
"In the wake of a basketball scandal at a prominent Christian university, we take time to remember the Christian roots of college athletics"
Chris Armstrong

CT Classic: Admen for Heaven
"Opening up minds is the first step to regular church attendance, Episcopal Ad Project says"
David Neff

Willow Creek Fishes In a Crowded Stream
"A pastor changes his story about his daughter's affair, and a Lewis clarification."
Ted Olsen

Weblog: A Third Way with Stem Cells
Plus: Creation vs. evolution, William Tyndale College closes, 10 questions with Billy Graham, World Vision pulls out of Iraq, Christians protest Kinsey film, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Weblog: Roy Moore Makes His Case to the U.S. Senate
Plus: Wheaton College's Billy Graham Center catches fire, archbishops bet on NBA finals, Ala. school board retracts conservative Christian mandate, U.S. considers more debt relief, and other stories from online news sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

The Barbarians Have Come
Reinhold Niebuhr's daughter examines her fellow Christians and finds most of them wanting.
by Paul C. Merkley

CT Classic: Admen for Heaven
"Opening up minds is the first step to regular church attendance, Episcopal Ad Project says"
David Neff

Kenyan President Suggests Hanging for 'Knowingly' Infecting Others with AIDS
Church organizations criticize use of capital punishment as solution to epidemic
Sam Gonza

Shelling the Salvation Army
"If William Booth's church could handle sticks and stones in the 1880s, it should withstand the recent barrage of hateful words"
Elesha Coffman

"Come for the Music, Stay for the Worship"
"Diversity in artists, worship and people last through 18 years of the Cornerstone Festival."
Todd Hertz

Stryper Returns to Play the Festival They Always Should Have
Cornerstone Music Festival takes a look back at artists who paved the way.
Todd Hertz

CT Classic: A Christian 'Heavy-Metal' Band Makes Its Mark on the Secular Music Industry
Lyrics and onstage behavior distances Stryper from counterparts.
Steve Rabey

Hopeful Pessimism
The lessons of the civil rights movement turn out to be quite alien to liberal pieties.
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

The Sage of Walden Pond
I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well.
by Lauren F. Winner

Weblog: Is Suicide Better than Life Imprisonment?
Plus: Ministry support leads to NCAA investigation, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

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

Tell Me the Old, Old Story—and Make It New
Apologetics for our time.
Lauren F. Winner

Pick Your Shibboleths Wisely
Do we really want to be known as the generation who gave marriage over to the government?
By Daniel A. Crane

Reflections: Sin and Evil
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman

One African Nation Under God
Zambia is missionary David Livingstone's greatest legacy. But this Christian nation isn't always heaven on earth
Ted Olsen

Rivers of Life
"In Africa, survival depends on open waterways. Missionary explorer David Livingstone believed that salvation did, too"
Elesha Coffman

From the Editor - Livingstone: The Great Non-Missionary
Mark Galli

God's Peculiar People
Historian Grant Wacker explains why Pentecostals survived and even flourished.
Edward J. Gitre

No Luddites Here
Evangelicals have (almost) always been quick to adopt communications technologies.
Randall Balmer and Catharine Randall

Willow Creek's Place in History
It turns out that the church that made seeker-sensitive a part of our vocabulary is not as revolutionary as its critics have said.
By Michael S. Hamilton

Restore All Things in Thomas?
American Catholic intellectuals in the Progressive era.
by Eugene McCarraher

The Habits of Highly Effective Bible Readers
What we can learn from the church fathers that will enrich our own Bible study.
A conversation with Christopher A. Hall

Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Back to the Future
A sprawling new novel by the author of Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon goes to the 17th century to investigate the birth of the modern world. (You won't be surprised to learn that the Puritans are among the Bad Guys.)
Albert Louis Zambone

The Dick Staub Interview: Mary Poplin Calls Claremont Her Calcutta
"After seeking God through telepathic spoon bending exercises, this professor found God, and with the help of Mother Teresa, her calling"

Weblog: Why the CARE Act Still Hasn't Reached Bush's Desk
": D.C. pastor fights off deacons, police to stay in pulpit amid allegations, Boykin apologizes, and other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen and Rob Moll

Christian History Corner: John Paul II's Canonization Cannon
Why and how this pope has made over 470 saints
Steven Gertz

A Mapping Mission
Moral geography.
David N. Livingstone

The Forgotten Pope of Presbyterianism
Charles Hodge, once a towering figure in American theology.
by Paul Gutjahr

Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley and 300-Revival Reconsidered
David Bebbington

El Espiritu Santo
Exploring Latino Pentecostalism.
By Douglas Jacobsen

Whither Pentecostal Scholarship?
The overlap between people with the Spirit and people with Ph.D.'s.
By Arlene M. SÁnchez Walsh

"Weblog: Kenneth Hagin, 'Word of Faith' Preacher, Dies at 86"
The explicit Messiah
Ted Olsen

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

Weblog: Separation of Church and Store
Plus: Bulldozing a church, murdering an atheist, Britain's designer babies, and apparently today is Election Day.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Lesbian Methodist Minister Defrocked
Plus: Denver keeps Christmas, pro-life Democrats push for comeback, Adventist leaders die in plane crash, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

The New History of Missions
The difference between global Christianity and world Christianity.
by Mark Noll

Mr. Jabez Goes to Africa
Bruce Wilkinson expands his borders to include racial reconciliation and HIV/AIDS
Timothy C. Morgan

Shari'ah Law to Decide Fates in Afghanistan
Attack of the 200 Clones coming soon and Eugene Rivers's model could help Cincinnati's racial tensions
Todd Hertz

How the Counterculture Went to Church
Alan Wolfe

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

Humming Schoenberg
Is there any there there?
John H. McWhorter