Volume 52, Number 8
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Cover Story
How God-fearing drivers and a national ministry bring faith to NASCAR.
Deann Alford
More from this Issue
Southern Baptists repent of inflated membership numbers.
Bob Smietana in Indianapolis
Faith-friendly Democrats may take more congressional seats from Republicans this fall.
Collin Hansen
Recent remarks on church architecture and the food crisis, Obama quotes Reagan, and other soundbites.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Jordan court annuls convert's marriage, U.S. Christians become Israel's biggest tourist group, and Obama fields questions from evangelical leaders.
Clay, a decathlete, won the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics. The Azusa Pacific graduate is now aiming for gold at the Beijing Games.
Interview by Susan Wunderink
Let's make sure we learn the right lessons from the primary season.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Olympians have something to teach us about this cardinal virtue.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Why evangelicals need wise guides alongside our revivalists.
George M. Marsden
One church's experiment in living the most arcane book of the Bible.
Daniel Harrell
In a cynical society suspicious of lawyers, Christian law schools are decidedly not.
Tim Stafford
Donna Freitas says that when it comes to sexual ethics, nonreligious schools are failing their students.
Interview by Katelyn Beaty
'Sex and the Soul' argues that universities—Christian and otherwise—desperately need this.
Review by Lisa Graham McMinn
The Shack is a tale of tragedy redeemed, not a theological treatise.
Derek R. Keefe
It took seeing seven-year-old prostitutes to jolt me out of my apathy.
Kay Warren
Popular spiritual author and Oprah favorite Eckhart Tolle quotes Jesus a lot. Is he a Christian?
James A. Beverley
We face a challenge of both global and spiritual proportions.
Stan Guthrie
Imagine swords turned into plowshares, and soldiers into soccer players.
Al Hsu
John Wilson's short reviews of A Step from Death, Christ and Culture Revisited, and Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat.
John Wilson, editor, 'Books and Culture'
Putting to death the noonday demon. A review of Kathleen Norris's Acedia & Me.
Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Sarah Sumner, Author of 'Leadership Above the Line' (Tyndale House)
Three decades after Solzhenitsyn's speech, where do we find ourselves?
Charles Colson with Anne Morse