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Breaking the Silence: Setting the Record Straight

Breaking the Silence: Setting the Record Straight

Appendix D: Setting the Record Straight: A Response to Recent [1] Attacks against the Christian Research Institute   by Elliot Miller, CRI Editor-in-Chief In its 35-year history the Christian Research Institute (CRI) has never been sued by any of the groups we...

Sexual Orientation Change Efforts: What’s Being Repaired?

Sexual Orientation Change Efforts: What’s Being Repaired?

  This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 38, number 01 (2015). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to:...

Point-Counterpoint: The Christian and Environmental Issues

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 1  (Winter 1997).​ For further information or to support the Christian Research Journal please click here.   While many evangelicals have viewed environmentalism as the province of...

Fivefold Ministry Makes a Comeback

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 22, number 1 (1999).   The two cassette tapes are eerie. One speaker, Bill Hamon, urges the congregation to invite “war angels” into the sanctuary and uses sound...

The Troubling Truth About Bonhoeffer’s Theology

The Troubling Truth About Bonhoeffer’s Theology

To listen to the audio version of this article, please click here. This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 35, number 06 (2012). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For more information about the...

Deconstructing Liberal Tolerance

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 22, number 3 (2000). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Liberal Tolerance is perhaps the primary challenge to the...

Antitheist Faith and History

Antitheist Faith and History

  This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 38, number 03 (2015). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to:...

Avatar: A Postmodern Pagan Myth

Avatar: A Postmodern Pagan Myth

This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 33, number 2 (2010). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Synopsis Avatar, the special effects extravaganza movie by James Cameron, has...

Holocaust Apologetics: Undoing the Death of God

Holocaust Apologetics: Undoing the Death of God

  This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to:...

Jesus as God in the Second Century

Jesus as God in the Second Century

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 1 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Various cults claim that the Council of Nicaea (AD 325)...

What Does it Mean to be Human?

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 26, number 3 (2003). For further information on the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org   SYNOPSIS Debates over embryonic stem cell research and human cloning have forced us...

George M. Lamsa: Christian Scholar or Cultic Torchbearer?

This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 12, number 2 (Fall 1989). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information about the Christian Research Journal go to:...

Alpha Course: Evaluating Alpha

This article first appeared in the Volume 23 / Number 3 issue of the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org.   If your church is looking for help in evangelism and...

Arnold Murray and the Shepherd’s Chapel

A teacher who has recently become popular over television is a man named Arnold Murray of the Shepherd’s Chapel in Gravette, Arkansas. We at the Christian Research Institute do not endorse the teachings of Arnold Murray. This paper will demonstrate why we consider Mr....

To Every Muslim an Answer (Islam Series Part 2)

This article first appeared in Forward volume 8, number 4 (1986). The full PDF can be viewed by clicking here.   Islam and Christianity are the two largest and most missionary-minded religions in the world. Their beliefs are very similar in many areas. They are...

Lifting the Veil of Polygamy

Lifting the Veil of Polygamy

This documentary examines the roots of Joseph Smith’s legacy, and its modern-day fruit. We follow the compelling testimonies of nine former fundamentalists, who shed light on this practice and lifestyle which has been shrouded in secrecy since the earliest days of...

The Star of Bethlehem: Light from Heaven?

The Star of Bethlehem: Light from Heaven?

Volume: 30 Issue: 6 Year: 2007 Topics covered in this issue of the CRJ include: The Star of Bethlehem? Light from Heaven? by T. Michael Davis Returning to Rome: Should Evangelicals Abandon the Reformation? by H. Wayne House The Secret Revealed: Assessing the Latest...

A Reconsideration of Romantic Love

A Reconsideration of Romantic Love

Volume: 32 Issue: 03 Year: 2009 Topics covered in this issue of the CRJ include: A Reconsideration of Romantic Love by Rob Whitely Joel’s Army Marches On by Bob Hunter The Oldest Biblical Text? Joseph Smith’s Book of Abraham Examined by Sandra Tanner Is the Shedding...

Evaluating the Star Wars Worldview

Evaluating the Star Wars Worldview

Topics covered in this issue of the CRJ include: Postmodern Death: Organ Transplantation and Human Value May the Force Bewitch You: Evaluating the Star Wars Worldview Ready! Set! Wait! Condemnation and Grace: Polygamy and Concubinage in the Old Testament Plural...

Suicide

Suicide

Volume: 32 Issue: 3 Year: 2008 Topics covered in this issue of the CRJ include: Suicide: Answering Against Eternity by C. Wayne Mayhall The Yoga Boom: A Call for Christian Discernment (Part Two: Yoga in Its Contemporary Western Context) by Elliot Miller The...

Navigating The Emerging Church Highway

Navigating The Emerging Church Highway

Volume: 31 Issue: 4 Year: 2008 Topics covered in this issue of the CRJ include:   Navigating the Emerging Church Highway by Mark Driscoll Jesus as “God”: Scriptural Fact or Scribal Fantasy? By Brian J. Wright The Yoga Boom: A Call for Christian Discernment (Part...

Yoga

Yoga

Volume: 32 Issue: 2 Year: 2008 Topics covered in this issue of the CRJ include: The Yoga Boom: A Call for Christian Discernment (Part One: Yoga in Its Original Eastern Context) by Elliot Miller Addiction Recovery and the Burden of Self by C. Wayne Mayhall Does...

One Nation Under Gods:A History of the Mormon Church

One Nation Under Gods:A History of the Mormon Church

Who are the Mormons and what do they believe? How did Mormonism begin? Is Mormonism just another Christian denomination seeking the world's betterment, as it claims, or is it an entirely different kind of theological institution? Was Joseph Smith a prophet? One Nation...