Volume 53, Number 3
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Cover Story
Why we're more down than ever—and the crucial role churches play in healing.
Dan G. Blazer
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By Kevin Frank
Authorities order Yangon churches to stop meeting.
Compass Direct News
Christian health workers just want to follow their religious beliefs.
Ken Walker
Missionaries' imprisonment shows the security risks of support e-mails.
Susan Wunderink
Recent remarks on mouthy pro-life people, forcing students to contemplate religion, and other news developments.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Physician-assisted suicide is spreading beyond Oregon's borders.
Sarah Pulliam
An association accused two Christian colleges of violating academic freedom, India's Supreme Court promotes religious liberty, and other news in brief.
Compiled by CT Staff
Recession leads evangelistic ministries to shift to lower-cost methods.
Bobby Ross Jr.
The current proposals to lower the abortion rate will only make things worse.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Christian publishers struck the right chord in 2008.
A Christianity Today Editorial
How local churches can handle — and prevent — depression.
Interview by Derek R. Keefe
Our theology makes all the difference in fighting depression.
Kathryn Greene-McCreight
The man who is the voice of God and the incarnation of Screwtape.
Mark Moring
Richard John Neuhaus helped inspire a generation of evangelicals to participate boldly in the public square.
Timothy George
Philip Jenkins says we need a theology of church extinction.
Interview by Stan Guthrie
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
In my desire to be 'seeker-friendly,' I'm often guilty of concealing Jesus.
Carolyn Arends
Why Peter Singer makes the New Atheists nervous.
Dinesh D'Souza
These authors don't flinch from sin's depth — or grace's power.
Matthew Nickoloff
Baader-Meinhof, One Square Inch of Silence, and Wrestling with God.
John Wilson, editor of 'Books and Culture'
Best books to read before Easter.
Ruth Haley Barton, president of the Transforming Center
It's up to the viewer of 'Finger of God' to determine whose they are.
Katelyn Beaty
Get into the Saint Patrick's Day mood with an eclectic selection of websites concerning all things Irish.
Derek (O')Keefe
Andrew Bird's latest explores what it means to be human.
Josh Hurst
The meaning of the election; the work yet to be done.
Philip Yancey