Volume 53, Number 12
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Cover Story
More people than ever doubt that anyone has a corner on truth. So why do Christians keep insisting on the incomparable uniqueness of Christ?
John R. Franke
More from this Issue
Believers from Muslim backgrounds are trying to forge new identities in Islamic cultures. The debate over their options has grown furious.
Joseph Cumming
Recent remarks on faith healing, immigration, runaway Rifqa Bary, and the flu.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Churches try to balance grace and accountability toward sex offenders.
Bobby Ross Jr.
Colleges debate student newspaper rules as Internet spreads stories far beyond campus.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
Internet-based lender inspires innovation in Christian microfinance.
Ken Walker
Robust support makes all the difference during an unplanned pregnancy.
Bob Smietana in Nashville
Why, Lord, do you allow this time, of all times, to become for some a memorial of searing pain?
Leigh C. Bishop
Author Dinesh D'Souza says new scientific thinking bolsters the case for life after death.
Interview by Mark Galli
Joanna Quintrell brings the Christ alternative to alternative spirituality seekers.
Tim Stafford
The Dickens classic is not just charming. It's also brutally realistic about the world, then and now.
Lisa Toland
What's the biggest change needed in how charities and federal agencies deliver aid to developing nations?
Brian Fikkert, David Beckmann, and Dale Hanson Bourke
What the two genealogies of Christ, found in Matthew and Luke, are really trying to say.
Grant Osborne
We can't see God clearly without Jesus. O come, Emmanuel.
Carolyn Arends
It's not just the problem of evil that baffles the secularist.
Charles Colson with Catherine Larson
Do even Christians operate from 'brazen self-interest' in interacting with others and with God?
John Wilson
In Deep Church, Jim Belcher says it doesn't have to be either-or.
Brandon O'Brien
Thomas Merton's letters, the law and theology of illegitimacy, and Victorian photocollage.
John Wilson
John Wigger explains how Francis Asbury left his fingerprints all over American Christianity.
Interview by Chris Armstrong
This documentary suggests it may have been Jupiter.
Kenneth R. Morefield
Dylan's holiday album a bust, but others catch the Christmas spirit.
Andrew Greer
Matthew Lee Anderson's online ruminations go deep.
Mark Moring and Tim Stafford