The Mystery of My Healing

Editorial

How We Forgot the Poverty of Christmas
The Incarnation is not a story we can package or market. It is also the greatest story ever told.
Katelyn Beaty
We don't believe in Christmas anymore. We believe in Christmas gatherings, Christmas shopping, and Christmas recitals, of course, and even Christmas outreach events and Christmas acts of charity. If you are reading this issue of CT while fighting tryptophan-induced sleep, you know that Christmas has dominated our mass-mediated imagination since before Halloween. Christmas is the piece de resistance of a year spent hustling from one "big event" to another, anticipating the next holiday as we try to enjoy the present one... continue reading >>

Gleanings The Top 20 Most-Read Gleanings of 2015 The 50 countries where it's most difficult to be a Christian, 'The Boy from Heaven' retracts his story, Elisabeth Elliot passes through gates of splendor, and more. Josh Wood

Her.meneutics Let Christmas Be Complicated We often overlook the tragic backdrop to Jesus' birth. Mandy Rodgers-Gates, guest writer

The Behemoth Virgin Births Happen All the Time Birds do it. Bees do it. Snakes, sharks, lizards, and lots of other animals do it solo too. Ted Olsen

The Exchange Faith of the Candidates: Interview With Marco Rubio (Part 2) In the second part of my interview with Senator Marco Rubio, we talk about "lost" people, and how "President Rubio" would share his faith. Ed Stetzer

The Exchange Christianity and Islam: Evangelicals and Americans Are Not on the Same Page About the "Same God" A lot of debate has swirled around the similarity (or dissimilarity) of Christianity and Islam lately. What do people think? Ed Stetzer

Ponder Christian Soldier Why I'm Not a Conscientious Objector I can't condemn war in the way my Anabaptist friends so quickly do. Matt Moorman

Her.meneutics The Mystery of My Healing Unexplainable relief is a reminder of God's grace, wholeness, and incarnation. Amy Julia Becker