Volume 44, Number 7
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Cover Story
How did evangelicals get so wealthy, and what has it done to us?
By Michael S. Hamilton
More from this Issue
By David Neff, Executive Editor
United Methodists reject homosexual marriages and ordinations.
By Jody Veenker in Cleveland
Christian colleges rethink sports mascots.
By Jody Veenker
Mourning, but glory for religious protesters removed from Vieques
By Kenneth D. MacHarg
Anne Graham Lotz says, Just give me Jesus in five-city revival.
By Jim Jones in Fort Worth
A New Mexico county sheriff thinks so.
By Karen Schmidt
Maryland megachurch fights its former denomination over $38 million in disputed assets.
By Sheryl Blunt in Washington, D.C.
Tufts University bans-then reinstates-InterVarsity over complaint from bisexual student.
By Randy Bishop
An Arkansas church does Disney one better to attract kids.
By John W. Kennedy in Springdale, Arkansas
Laotian Christians held in wooden stocks for refusing to recant their faith.
By Michael Fischer in Vientiane
By Compass Direct and Ecumenical News International
Christian leaders argue embargo punishes the poor, not the Iraqi elite.
By Jody Veenker
Colombia's pastors endure extortion, kidnappings, and threats as they plant churches and help the poor in a war zone.
By Kenneth D. MacHarg
Online smut is taking its toll on Christians. What is the church doing about it?
A Christianity Today Editorial
How this former unbelieving electrical engineer became evangelicalism's financial answer man—and a look at the advice he gives.
By Larry Eskridge
Rich Christians in an age of easy credit
By Larry Eskridge
Ministries that think they can do no financial wrong deceive themselves.
By John G. Stackhouse Jr
The African-American experience teaches us that political activity is essential to the church's identity.
By Stephen L. Carter
Alaskan churches debate whether they should reach at-risk youth by using their culture's pre-Christian traditions.
By Kyle Huckins in Anchorage
ABC anchorman Peter Jennings discusses what moved him as he filmed a special on the life of Christ.
Interview by Douglas LeBlanc
A ministry helps churches handle the complex issue.
By Peri Stone-Palmquist
An African Perspective on Psalm 23.
By Hannah W. Kinoti
Evangelical politics is bigger than the religious right.
By Richard Cizik
Two books tell the story behind John Lennon's short-lived conversion.
Steve Turner
Quotations on getting, giving, and generosity
The breakdown of community is not just a hunch of social commentators, but a sociological fact with severe consequences.
By Robert Wuthnow
The homeschooling Scheibner family isn't bowling alone.
By Robert Wuthnow
Aristotle and Aquinas enter the bioethics debate, answering what it means to be human.
By Brad Stetson
Inner-city gradeschoolers reawakened author Jonathan Kozol's dormant faith.
By Lauren F. Winner
A lively response by one unusual audience shows how God's power transforms culture.
By Charles Colson