How I Almost Lost the Bible
Had it not been for the first editor of CT, I likely would have gone the way of liberal scholar Bart Ehrman. I was born at the Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania—a fact that once...
View ArticleThe Good News Hiding Beneath the Headlines
As we begin another year, Philip Yancey reminds us: Grace hasn’t vanished. After listening to several dark reviews of 2014—recapped news of the beheadings in Iraq, the Ebola epidemic, racial strife,...
View ArticleThe ‘Boy Who Came Back from Heaven’ Retracts Story
Tyndale pulls bestselling book after Alex Malarkey, now 16, says, ‘I did not die’ and ‘Bible is sufficient’ on heaven. Tyndale House Publishers has stopped production of the book and DVD of The Boy Who...
View ArticleNews: Rebuilding Ferguson, Residents Seek Local Leadership
Pastors, ministry leaders, and others emphasize community-led efforts. Flames raged so close to Adrienne Hawkins’s home that she thought her neighbor’s backyard was on fire. She could feel the heat and...
View ArticleThis MLK Day Feels Different
A reflection on recent tensions and a renewed sense of hope. Driving home in the early evening darkness, we were talking about how much hadn’t changed with race relations in this country, following the...
View ArticleIs Buying Your Way Onto the Bestseller List Wrong?
A year after Mark Driscoll’s church got caught manipulating the New York Times list, authors and publishers question a practice that extends far beyond Mars Hill. Few churches have sparked as much...
View ArticleThe Greatest Hits of N. T. Wright
Why his new book is worth reading, even if you know most of the songs by heart. Reading N. T. Wright's latest book, Simply Good News: Why the Gospel is News and What Makes It Good (HarperOne), is...
View ArticleThe Season of Adventists: Can Ben Carson’s Church Stay Separatist Amid...
The denomination gains one million each year. Some want to be more evangelical. One of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s most famous sons, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, is seeking evangelical...
View ArticleTending the ‘Stolen’ Sheep in Latin America’s Booming Bible Belt
Catholics may be fast converting to Protestantism, but beliefs and maturity vary. For most of the past century, almost all (more than 90%) of Latin Americans were Catholics. But decades of attrition...
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