Volume 52, Number 10
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Cover Stories
Despite his liberal record, Barack Obama is making a lot of evangelicals think twice.
John W. Kennedy
How Eastern Europe's most missional evangelical church is rethinking tradition and the Great Commission.
Susan Wunderink
More from this Issue
Vatican reluctantly grants Paraguayan Fernando Lugo's request to step down.
Paul Virgo, Religion News Service
The Vatican gives orders to excise the name from worship. Do Protestants agree?
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
A Washington church sparks residents' anger by hosting the homeless.
Drew Dyck
Courts: Good news for homeschoolers, bad news for Christian schools.
Sarah Pulliam
Recent remarks on leaving Hamas for Jesus, the secular cross, and other news developments.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
President resigns, alleging pastor plotted to sell school assets.
Jim Jones in Fort Worth
CEO of the Christian Medical Association on fertility treatments and discrimination.
Interview by Sarah Pulliam
Todd Bentley and his wife separate, Christian History & Biography ceases publication, and other news.
Indiana film festival finds success highlighting "hope and respect."
Mark Moring
International religious freedom has been too low a priority.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Never confuse access to politicians with influence on policy.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Election night's biggest direct democracy battles.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
After years of ambiguity, Senator McCain reveals his spiritual side for public viewing. How will evangelicals respond?
Tony Carnes
Beauty is the hard-to-define essence that draws people to the gospel.
David Taylor
Retooling Saddleback's international work and hosting a presidential forum serve a common purpose, says Rick Warren.
Interview by Timothy C. Morgan
Anne Graham Lotz says her success is due to God. Yes. But she is still an extraordinary preacher.
Keri Wyatt Kent
Finding Jesus on America's Bible Road.
Photos by Sam Fentress, slideshow produced by Ruth Moon
Minnesota's Twin Cities are home to a feisty collection of influential churches.
Collin Hansen
How the strange yet familiar doctrine of theosis can invigorate the Christian life.
James R. Payton Jr.
Kyiv pastor Sunday Adelaja believes the world is his parish.
Interview by Susan Wunderink
Bill Mallonee has been called one of the top 100 songwriters in the world, but an audience is hard to find.
Nate Anderson
Conservatives face huge obstacles in putting Anglicanism back together.
Timothy C. Morgan in Canterbury and Jerusalem
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
We can't defeat evil in the world without facing the evil in ourselves.
Kay Warren
Why the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensible.
Al Hsu
A seasoned biographer examines Barack Obama's spiritual journey and priorities.
Gary Scott Smith
Short reviews of Looking Before and After, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, and Paradise Lost.
John Wilson, editor of 'Books & Culture'
What daily lovemaking for a year did for one marriage.
Lisa Graham McMinn
Top 5 Books: Character Shapes Belief
Douglas Wilson, coauthor of 'Is Christianity Good for the World?'
Box set chronicles the Rez Band's mark on CCM history.
Review by Andy Whitman
It's not only our civic duty — it's a sacred one.
Charles Colson with Anne Morse