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The Hunger for Secret Knowledge -The Gnostics called themselves "enlightened." The Early Church called them heretics; Why the New Testament has only four Gospels; How early Christians could tell the apostolic message from counterfeits

A Devoted Life -St. Benedict's model of prayerful community shaped Western monasticism -and changed the course of European history

Why the January conclave of evangelical leaders was dangerous. Christian leaders who exercise the will to power partake of the same thing they decry in society

Historical theologian Timothy George says Luther and Calvin show us how to read the Bible for the sake of the church. The Revormation was a preaching movement. The Reformers did what they did to advance the proclamation of the Word of God.

Journalist Jeffery Sheier provides a probing biography of the two Rick Warrens. The empirical, analytical Warren meets the myustical, subjective Warren at key points in Sheier's narrative.

Yes, the judiciary is usurping the powers of the people, but talk of revolution is alarmist.

A forum on the limits of politics and a search for common ground. I am concerned that whenever Christians have begun to operate from a position of power rather than from a position of servanthood they betray the gospel

Like everything else in our culture, the political process has been turned into a consumer commodity.

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This Southern Baptist preacher-turned-journalist wants to get America talking about the stories of Genesis.

It's high time we saved children from the tobacoo industry.

Former CT editors Carl Henry and Kenneth Kantzer evaluate evangelicalism in light of its twentieth-century developements. Education can't be neglected or our pagan culture is going to overwhelm us.

CT founder Billy Graham charts the course for evangelicalism's future. The twin enemies of vision are compacency and discouragement.

The Last Temptation ironically fails in its central purpose--to affirm the humanity of Jesus. Was Jesus the Son of God, a devil, or a lunatic on the level of a poached egg? Director Martin Scorsese opted for the poached-egg Christ.

Surrogate mothers may create a new class of breeder women and further confuse the family unit. What would a child think if she learned her natural mother had conceived her for the sole purpose of giving her away.

The post-Armstrong Worldwide Church of God's commendable journey of faith.

Leaders from Egypt, Lebanon, and Palestine speak about the church's mission in a troubled region

Lessons from the New Era debacle.

The times may be bad, but they are the only times we are given.

To ignore the religious deimension of culture and society is to leave a hug hole in the picture

To ignore the religious deimension of culture and society is to leave a hug hole in the picture

Christian talk radio's high-wrieless act is soaring. But without strong accountability structures, it could lose its balance

An ELCA commission looked immorality in the eye and called it sin. So why did they blink when they came to homosexuality?

A dangerous phrase is floating about in pro-life circles--extremists have rationalized violent acts by calling them justifiable homicide.

Christians should pray for those who have yet to settle those issues