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August 2002

The Third Coming of George Barna
He believes his ten-year campaign to reform the church has failed. What is evangelicals' most-quoted statistician going to do next?
by Tim Stafford
Plus: Barna's Beefs

The Good News About Generations X & Y
Watch out, promiscuity! Out of the way, relativism! A wave of young Americans just wants that old time religion. An interview with the author of The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy.
an interview by Agnieszka Tennant

Whither Christian Unity?
The WCC and the WEA represent very different paths. One of them has real promise.
by Thomas C. Oden
Plus: The Not-So-New Ecumenism

News: North American Report

Education: James Dobson encourages parents to remove their children from public schools.

Presbyterians:General Assembly affirms Jesus as 'only Savior and Lord.'

Supreme Court: Public education vouchers do not violate Establishment Clause.

Bible: Southern Baptist Convention rejects TNIV translation

Anglicans: Maverick Vancouver diocese approves same-sex blessings

Evangelicalism: Billy Graham steps into Cincinnati's racial divide.

Private Apology: Evangelist says remarks to Nixon about Jews were out of bounds.

Theologian Dies: Kenneth Kantzer, 85, edited CT for five years.

World Report

Sweden: Proposed law could chill sermons.

Eritrea: Government shuts down churches.

Pakistan: Presbyterians regain control of college.

Interfaith Relations: Vatican document undermines evangelism to Jews, evangelicals warn.

Departments

Inside CT
The Editor Who Helped Save Christianity Today

Under the Sun
Wanted: Church Atheist; Aisle 4: Milk, Bread, and God; Quotation Marks; European Disunion; Go Figure; Church Challenges; Herod's Stadium; The Setting of the Age of Aquarius; Skating on Church Pipes

Editorials
Breaking Up a Monopoly; Mortified in Vancouver

Reflections | Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
Fenders of the Faith

Bearing the Cross | by Jeff M. Sellers
Crushed by a Soviet Relic

Always in Parables | by Andy Crouch
Rekindling Old Fires

The CT Review
Farm Boy Makes Good; A Folk-Rock Caravaggio

The Back Page | Charles Colson
Undaunted

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Russ Breimeier | posted 12/01/2008 10:09AM

A Latter-day Alliance
Evangelicals, once uncomfortable with Romney, unite with Mormons on gay marriage ban.

Sarah Pulliam | posted 12/02/2008 09:35AM

Ignorance as Blessing
Foreknowledge: for God and not for us.

Collin Hansen | posted 12/01/2008 10:13AM

Recessions Are Good?
Many see moral uplift as a result of the slumping economy.

Rob Moll | posted 12/01/2008 01:24PM

The Good News in Oil and Acrylic
A missions center becomes a patron of the arts.

Tony Carnes | posted 11/25/2008 09:26AM

Prepare the Way of the Lord - Day 2

Poll: What kind of Christmas music do you like most?

From Christianity Today Movies:
'Perhaps Just Out of Our Minds'
Christian filmmaker Buzz McLaughlin tries to find a niche between secular movies and preachy ones—only to find it's an elusive market.

Frederica Mathewes-Green | posted 12/02/2008 03:03PM

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