Volume 53, Number 2
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Cover Story
How the genre draws us to its own views of redemption.
James A. Herrick
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Dennis Fletcher
Six pastors killed, 40 churches razed in Jos's most recent violence.
Compass Direct News
Difficulties of high-profile pastors may reorient movement—or reinforce it.
Bobby Ross Jr.
Financial crisis may claim more evangelical schools in 2009.
Collin Hansen
Recent remarks on proselytizing, Rick Warren, and whether to say 'Merry Christmas.'
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Ministries disagree on how best to provide Bibles to Chinese Christians.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
Where David battled Goliath, missionaries who were found guilty, and other news in brief.
Christians in South Korea use helium-filled balloons to spread gospel tracts.
Jeremy Weber
The Passion Conference founder talks about his overseas tour and the new church he has started with Matt Redman and Chris Tomlin.
Interview by Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
The global church needs to ground youth in their true, deepest identity.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Short profiles of Olaf Stapledon, Erich von Däniken, Ray Kurzweil, Freeman Dyson, and Lee M. Silver.
James A. Herrick
The Green Bible promises to grow our understanding of creation care. Unfortunately, its results don't satisfy.
Telford Work
The ultimate kibitzer wants Jews to trust evangelicals, and evangelicals to love Israel.
John W. Kennedy in New York City
I traveled from Portland to Delhi, and this is what I found.
Mike Barrett
2008 was the year of socially conscious documentaries.
Mark Moring
Key policies at home and overseas will help victims of poverty and disease for years to come.
Tony Carnes with additional reporting by Sarah Pulliam
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
How the gay rights movement lost more than Proposition 8.
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
God does not have to answer to us for his ways.
John Calvin with Knox Bucer-Beza
In 'godless' Scandinavia, people are content. Is that enough?
Lisa Graham McMinn
I Heard God Talking to Me, The Final Martyrs, and Paranoia.
John Wilson, editor of 'Books and Culture'
At 69, the soul and gospel queen is still electrifying.
Andy Whitman
Short reviews of new albums by Compassionart, Downhere, Jason Gray, and Ben Shive.
A strategy for social conservatives in a socially liberal era.
Charles Colson with Anne Morse