Emergent Evangelism
The place of absolute truths in a postmodern world—two views.
By Brian McLaren and Duane Litfin

Letters

Taking C.S. Lewis Seriously
Apologetics and the personal heresy
Victor Reppert

Letters

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

Thomas the Unbeliever
A new doubting Thomas finds few answers
Garrett Brown

You Can't Believe Everything You Hear about Church Growth
Lyle E. Schaller

The Great Assumption
What is motivating Seeker-sensitive worship?
Bart Swaim

GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD PASTORS
Boundaries can lengthen and strengthen your ministry.
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Plan B (for Bad)
Christians fight to keep 'morning-after-pill' under the counter.
Lisa Griffin and Baptist Press

Theology on the Edge
When competing ideologies had fragmented Christian thought, Thomas forged a solution.
J. David Lawrence

Now That I'm a Grown-Up

Essays on Christian Character
Fred Smith, Sr.

Does Preaching Really Matter?

Your Chip Is Showing
Four recent films show a battle for control among men, women, and machines.
By Peter T. Chattaway

The Punk Rocker with a Ph.D.
Greg Graffin, frontman of Bad Religion, has a freshly minted doctorate in evolutionary biology and a new album coming soon.
by Preston Jones

"Weblog: Forty Years Later, C.S. Lewis's Influence Tops JFK"
Some of those articles we promised last week
Rob Moll

Sex and the Single Christian
No, chastity isn't archaic.
Agnes Howard

Time Goes Gnostic
"Christmas, Carl Henry, more Gnostics, and other articles from online sources around the world"
Rob Moll

Breaking The Da Vinci Code
So the divine Jesus and infallible Word emerged out of a fourth-century power-play? Get real.
Collin Hansen

Opponents of Allegory
The scholars at Antioch rejected allegory in favor of history. But their interpretive method led some into heresy.
Steven Gertz

Christian Esperanto
We must learn other cultural tongues
Andy Crouch

"Top Ten News Stories, 2002"
"The events, people, and ideas of the past year that have or will significantly shape evangelical life, thought, or mission"
CT editors

Evasive Maneuvers
Can Protestant historians play by the rules of the secular academy without giving the game away?
by Bruce Kuklick

Thomas the Unbeliever
A new doubting Thomas finds few answers
Garrett Brown

Uncompromising Positions
Hitchens and Orwell
Preston Jones

An Emperor of Art
The life and films of Akira Kurosawa.
by Carl Plantinga

The Death and Rebirth of Ivan Illich
A call to Christian conspiracy.
by Christopher Shannon

Whose Natural Theology?
Alan Jacobs

Church of Your Dreams
David Hansen

Can I Predict When Down Times Are Going to Hit?

Starting Out and Staying In
Douglas J. Rumford

Divine Theater
God's weightiness in worship.
by Sue A. Rozeboom

A Fifty-Year Walk
Reflections on God's immanence in creation.
by Larry Woiwode

Crash-Helmet Christianity
Talking about the real Jesus is a dangerous thing.
A Christianity Today editorial

Rediscovering the Language Jesus Spoke
Millions of Americans have spent two hours listening to the characters in Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ speaking in an exotic, unfamiliar tongue. Yet not all find Aramaic so alien.
By Steven Gertz

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

Emergent Evangelism
The place of absolute truths in a postmodern world—two views.
By Brian McLaren and Duane Litfin

Lewis the Letter-Writer
An unconscious autobiography in two volumes of correspondence.
By Michael Ward

Wildheart
John Eldredge thinks too many Christians are weak, and churches are often insipid-and he's not going to take it anymore
By Douglas LeBlanc

The Invention of Modern Witchcraft
A surprising genealogy of neopaganism.
by Irving Hexham

"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
Grayson Carter

Battle Cry
"John Eldredge calls men, and now women, to a mythical, mystical adventure of faith"
Vincent Bacote

How Nietzsche Found Jesus
Was the antichrist really religious?
Stephen N. Williams

Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Divine Numbers
Can you say Christian and mathematics in the same sentence?
Karl-Dieter Crisman

Creation's Symmetries, God's Mystery
Blaise Pascal pioneered in math and physics but drew faith from revelation alone.
George Murphy

Anglican Priest Hopes to Boldly Go Where No Clergyman Has Gone Before
Ken Clapham wants to be the international space station's chaplain.
Cedric Pulford

What Heresy?
The things Neo-Gnostic seekers find lacking in Christianity-experiential insight, mysticism, a direct link to God-are already there
Frederica Mathewes-Green

Beneath the Orange and Green
A survey shows Northern Ireland's hope lies in its churchgoers.
By Mark Noll

Trained to Kill
A military expert on the psychology of killing explains how today's media condition kids to pull the trigger.
David Grossman

Holy Animals
The stories of Joy Williams.
Sara Miller

Worldview Boot Camp
Evangelical young people need training in the truth about truth.
By Charles Colson with Anne Morse

Everything That Rises Must Converge
The inevitable and preordained trajectories of evolution.
by William Dembski

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

The Groves of Academe
A Pietist with a Ph.D.: Remembering Stanley J. Grenz
Roger E. Olson

Good News or Old News?
The Via Negativa as Road to Renewal
Mark D. Filiatreau

Our Real Work

Running Into Reality
Wayne Pohl

The Passion of Mel Gibson
Why evangelicals are cheering a movie with profoundly Catholic sensibilities.
David Neff

The Carl Henry that Might Have Been
Carl Henry will be remembered as someone who, in a confusing age, held forth the solid middle of a faith that fortifies the whole human person against the fraying ends of irrationalism and superstition.
Kenneth S. Kantzer

Letters

Taking C.S. Lewis Seriously
Apologetics and the personal heresy
Victor Reppert

Reaching the "Happy-Thinking Pagan"
Ravi Zacharias

Speaking Truth in a Relativistic Society
Ed Dobson

Opening the Closed American Mind
Ed Dobson

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

Reaching the "Happy-Thinking Pagan"
Ravi Zacharias

Preaching to the Disinclined
William Willimon

'Ragamuffin' Author Brennan Manning Dies
The patched-up life and unshabby message of Brennan Manning.
Agnieszka Tennant

Dark Thoughts
Hoping that all will be saved.
Kevin Corcoran

The Ecstatic Heresy
Seeking a superficial unity, some denominational leaders opt for feelings over facts.
By Robert Sanders