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

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

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

Books & Culture Corner: True Believers
Incoming! The McSweeney's crowd launches a new monthly.
Jeremy Lott

Editor's Bookshelf: Paradox Lost
Blessed Are the Cynical shows what happened to sin.
David Neff

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

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

Christian History Corner: 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

Always in Parables: 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

Fever Dream
A parable of the new South Africa.
Tim Stafford

Christian History Corner: National Makeover
Washington's struggle to sell the American image overseas illustrates how sharply today's reality differs from seventeenth-century ideals
Elesha Coffman

The Kinkade Crusade
America's most collected artist is a Christian who seeks to sabotage Modernism by painting beauty, sentiment, and the memory of Eden.
By Randall Balmer

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

Christian History Corner: 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

Christian History Corner: 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

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

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

Books & Culture Corner: Beneath the Orange and Green
A survey shows Northern Ireland's hope lies in its churchgoers.
By Mark Noll | posted 6/5/00

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

My Emerging Guilt
With one hand still clutching the smoothie, I was pulled into the conga line. How did I get here, dancing, off beat and out of touch?
By Ron Benson

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

The Believer's Final Bliss
The regeneration of man requires that old things must pass away and all things become new
John Murray

Illusion or Reality?
Edith Schaeffer

CT Classic: 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

God Hidden and Wholly Revealed
Karl Barth, postmodernity, and evangelical theology
John R. Franke

Film Forum: A Wedding of Crass Jokes and Bad Filmmaking
"Critics try to forget American Wedding, Gigli, and Buffalo Soldiers. But Dirty Pretty Things wins applause as one of the summer's best films and Seabiscuit and Whale Rider get further examination. Plus: Debate about The Passion continues"
Jeffrey Overstreet

Beyond Virtue and Vice
"Some morals are absolute, but they are not ultimate"
Christianity Today Editorial

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

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

Soul Language on Paper
Blue Like Jazz resonates with readers who grapple with the paradoxes of faith
Cindy Crosby

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

Ragamuffin
The patched-up life and unshabby message of Brennan Manning.
By Agnieszka Tennant