Religion: Conservatism Today

Thanks to its well-heeled backers, the magazine is sent free to 140,657 Protestant churchmen; only 38,208 subscribers actually pay to receive it. But after nearly six years of thumbing through its bristling defense of oldtime religion, most of the readers on the free list would probably make a point of getting the fortnightly Christianity Today even if they had to pay for it. For it is a magazine of evangelical Christianity that tries to make traditional Protestant theology clear and interesting—and nearly always succeeds.

Recent issues of Christianity Today have included an impressive sample...