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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Tale of Two Schools
Harvard is Harvard. Bethel is the it school for Baptist General Conference diehards.
Nathaniel Taylor

Cracks in the Tower
A closer look at the Christian college boom.
Allen Guelzo

Jedi or Jesuit?
Looking for God at the cineplex.
Jason Byassee