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Volume 42, Number 12
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Cover Story
What we need to know about this often misunderstood Middle Eastern parable.
More from this Issue
Churches reject funds tainted by gambling.
More than a million people have died in North Korea during three years of floods and drought.
Non-Orthodox Christians have less religious freedom than a year ago.
Does religion in schools favor Catholics?
Croatian Miroslav Volf wanted to love his Serbian enemies; the Prodigal's father is showing him how.
What kind of world would this be if people were rewarded for squandering their families' inheritance?
The early church debated whether apostate Christians could be forgiven again.
When my prodigal son left our world, it sent me on a sojourn as well.
The Clinton factor and tensions with the GOP test the mettle of religious conservatives.
A Jewish rabbi asks: Why shouldn't abortion in Israel be compared to the mass murder of Jewish children in Hitler's Europe?
The surprisingly relevant advice of a Dutch statesman for engaging postmodern culture.
The temptation is to appeal to "common sense" as to what is time-bound and what is not.
Moms absorb insanely conflicted messages about what they should or should not do.
A dying Nazi asked concentration-camp inmate Simon Wiesenthal for forgiveness—and so he asks us, What would you have said?
In a society strongly marked by "rights" rather than social obligation, everything becomes negotiable.
Lewis saw belief in heaven not as wishful thinking, but as thoughtful wishing.
