Volume 52, Number 9
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With one book off to the printer, Andy Crouch contemplates beginning another.
David Neff, editor in chief
Some Jamaicans aren't eager to see a Bible in the country's majority language.
Jocelyn Green
Churches get creative amid soaring gas prices.
Ashly McGlone, Religion News Service
Democrats and Republicans vie for the title in their upcoming elections.
Sarah Pulliam
An Islamic nation decides to enforce its worship restrictions after all.
Compass Direct News
Prof says first-century tablet tells of messiah who will die and rise.
Gordon Govier
Recent remarks on politics, sex, and other issues.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
The Florida Outpouring revival concerned Pentecostal leaders.
Cary McMullen, 'The Ledger of Lakeland'
Exclusivist view of Christianity might not be so rare.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
The government keeps trying to favor one kind of religion over another.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Andy Crouch says there's no reason to get paralyzed by our 'culture making' mandate.
Interview by Derek R. Keefe
Catherine Rohr's program redirects prisoners' entrepreneurial savvy.
Brad A. Greenberg
Artist Makoto Fujimura launched the International Arts Movement to 're-humanize the world.'
Tim Stafford
After leaving Capitol Hill, Mark Rodgers started helping investors find artists.
Ted Olsen
Bob Muzikowski turns vacant lots into fields of promise.
Derek R. Keefe
Meritt Sawyer and friends revive the value of family and the printed page.
Katelyn Beaty
Emphasizing the big gospel can make it hard to communicate any gospel.
David Fitch
Richard Foster's disciplined attention to spiritual formation began early on.
Interview by Mark Galli
How do leaders — who must get subordinates to follow their lead — practice the discipline of submission?
By Richard Foster
You get asked some pretty strange things when you speak the language of Jesus.
Ariel Sabar
Doug Johnston is going where few foreign policy experts have gone before.
Rob Moll
In his last two books, Brian McLaren presents more clearly than ever his vision of the gospel.
Scot McKnight
McLaren shows us not only where 'post-evangelicals' are going, but also how they get there.
Scot McKnight
Muslim-background believers in the U.S. struggle to find Christian community.
Christopher Lewis
Satellites allow Iranian Christians to come alongside believers back home.
Christopher Lewis
$70 million and Mart Green's business acumen are repairing a scandal-scarred school.
John W. Kennedy in Tulsa
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
Eldredges's sense of divine guidance makes a Calvinist's heart burn with envy. Or caution.
Carolyn Nystrom
John Wilson's short reviews of The Future of Christian Learning, To Live Upon Hope, and The Palace Council.
John Wilson, editor of 'Books & Culture'
Why females younger and younger are being portrayed as sexual objects.
Todd C. Ream and Sara C. Ream
The Hold Steady reminds us of "something bigger."
Andy Whitman
The Christian life is about the journey as well as the destination.
Philip Yancey