Volume 53, Number 5
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Cover Story
Even in tough times, your favorite charities are doing better than anyone expected.
John W. Kennedy
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Despite being laid off, one woman is committed to supporting three children.
Timothy C. Morgan
Christians in Swat Valley brace for Taliban rule.
Compass Direct News
Access to federal money may be mixed blessing for embryonic research.
Sarah Pulliam
Drug violence halts church trips to short-term missions mecca.
C. L. Lopez
Tax exemption means layoffs hit congregations' employees harder.
Bobby Ross Jr.
Comments on generic evangelicals, Habitat's demolition crews, and other topics from recent news.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Studies suggest that pastors' health declines are a church problem.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
The president and CEO of Open Doors USA updated CT on North Korea, which the group ranks as the world's worst persecutor of Christians.
Interview by Timothy C. Morgan
Todd Bentley marries former intern, Oral Roberts University and Joyce Meyer Ministries become accredited, and other recent news.
Evangelicals discount portrayal as leftist voting bloc.
Deann Alford
President Obama's tax plan will hurt the very people he's trying to help.
A Christianity Today Editorial
How does an Anabaptist charity get donors to give $1,200 a year?
John W. Kennedy
Why Tullian Tchividjian, the grandson of the Most Admired Man in America, thinks Christians need to become unfashionable.
Collin Hansen
Six Protestant churches that strive to match form with faith.
Gary Wang
A new survey suggests that seekers are not looking for user-friendly, mall-like buildings.
Nathan Bierma
How the great theologian might weigh in on the Darwin debate.
Alister McGrath
When a landmark study suggests that intercessory prayer may actually hurt patients instead of help them, you have to wonder.
Gregory Fung and Christopher Fung
At 26, Joshua DuBois has already been a pastor and a congressional fellow, and is now the President's faith-based point man.
Sarah Pulliam
The challenges facing Joshua DuBois and the faith-based initiative.
Sarah Pulliam
Philip Mangano, the federal 'homeless czar,' says, 'Yes we can.'
Interview by David Neff
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
When science is made 'apolitical' and 'unencumbered by religion,' it's usually to hyper-politicize and hyper-sacralize it.
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
Without them, the planet couldn't support creatures like us.
Dinesh D'Souza
What are we to make of the variety of spiritual experiences?
Mark Galli
Short reviews of The Divine Commodity, Something's Rising, and The Reason For Crows.
John Wilson
Two evangelicals argue for more generous immigration policies.
Tony Carnes
Shane Hipps urges Christians to discern the technology spirits.
Interview by Mark Galli
Websites to help you rediscover the beauty of planet Earth this spring.
Katelyn Beaty
Understanding the Atonement is about more than grasping a theory.
Philip Yancey