Volume 52, Number 6
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Kenneth Copeland turns to IRS to avoid Senate inquiry into prosperity ministries.
Adelle M. Banks, RNS
Influential megachurch moves away from seeker-sensitive services.
Matt Branaugh
Wives of slain missionaries sue Chiquita for complicity in the murders.
Ken Walker
Candidates are scrutinized ever more closely for their spiritual associations.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
Speaker Pelosi's Bible, "how it is" with drug dealers, Ted Turner's turn, and other recent remarks.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Struggling congregation alleges the denomination sold its sanctuary unlawfully.
Paul Asay
Mouw is president of Fuller Theological Seminary and a supporter of Evangelicals and Catholics Together.
Sheryl Henderson Blunt
Capital punishment returns, Cedarville’s trustees uphold firing, and the House votes for debt forgiveness.
Ground-level religious discrimination against Messianic Jews may be changing.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Why we refrain even when premarital sex is safe and "natural."
A Christianity Today Editorial
Our gospel may be small because we fail to believe that God animates many social movements.
Fleming Rutledge
Jay Smith confronts Muslim fundamentalists with fundamentalist fervor.
Deann Alford in London
The New York pastor explains why he's taking his ministry model on the road.
Interview by Susan Wunderink
Complementarians need to recover a fully biblical view of women — and of handling theological disagreement.
John Koessler
Egalitarians should rely more on careful exegesis and less on political ideologies.
Sarah Sumner
Global evangelicals don't necessarily vote like American evangelicals.
Mark A. Noll
Short reviews of The Great Awakening, The Return of History and the End of Dreams, and Making the Best of It.
John Wilson, editor of 'Books & Culture'
I Once Was Lost has wisdom for those trying to reach young skeptics.
Review by Chap Clark
Why are the candidates ignoring the huge problem under our noses?
Charles Colson, with Anne Morse