January
2010
Volume 54, Number 1
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About The Archives
The CT archives are a rich treasure of biblical wisdom and insight from our past. Some things we would say differently today, and some stances we've changed. But overall, we're amazed at how relevant so much of this content is. We trust that you'll find it a helpful resource.
Cover Story
Why the best parenting techniques don't produce Christian children.
Leslie Leyland Fields
Features
Valdir Steuernagel says we need to learn how to serve in a fellowship of rich and poor, Africans and Asians, subsistence farmers and tech professionals.
Valdir Steuernagel
What if children have their own experiences of God—and a genuine free will to respond?
Interview with Donald Ratcliff by Katelyn Beaty
Christianity Today's first editor grasped what I as a young theologian failed to understand about church involvement in social justice.
Richard J. Mouw
The statistics we most love to repeat may be leading us to make bad choices about the church.
Ed Stetzer
Lesslie Newbigin, born 100 years ago today, launched a new career at age 66 by calling Western churches to act like they were in the mission field.
Krish Kandiah
How a story in Mark's gospel sheds light on the problem of obstetric fistula.
L. Lewis Wall
A human rights lawyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and two world-class surgeons are rallying evangelicals to defeat fistula.
Elissa Cooper
Views
Churches that embrace people with disabilities do more than they imagine.
A Christianity Today Editorial
What's the best way to encourage people to save sex for the covenant of marriage?
Mark Regnerus, Richard Ross, and Donna Freitas
A church family from the same generation isn't much of a family.
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
The church fathers show us how to read Scripture imaginatively.
David Neff
Reviews
Though it's the best-produced church-made film yet, this teen flick tries to tackle too many topics at once, muddling the story—and the transformative power of the gospel.
Todd Hertz
How to get along with the extroverts who populate the Western church.
Christine A. Scheller
How the positive thinking movement has shaped the church.
David Swanson
The Return of Religion, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and No Small Matter.
John Wilson
Lynn Cohick argues that early Christian women were more active in public life than we might think.
Interview by Sarah Pulliam Bailey
News
The events, people, and debates of the past year that have shaped, or will significantly shape, evangelical life, thought, or mission. Also: Top 10 news stories of the decade.
CT staff
Recent remarks on the Manhattan Declaration, Christians in Turkey, and invoking Jesus.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
A surprise House ban on abortion funding reveals pro-life gains.
M. Z. Hemingway
Technological advances are delivering Scripture across the globe.
Ken Walker
Identifying one's faith on online social networks proves challenging for some.
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
A handful of parishes win the right to keep their property, but legal experts don't know if their cases are setting a precedent.
John W. Kennedy
More from this Issue
Parenting, our newest columnist, and the legacy of Carl Henry.
Mark Galli
To White House Fellow Adam Taylor, the math is simple.
Mark Moring and Tim Stafford