Volume 52, Number 3
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Cover Story
More and more, Christian men are admitting they've been caught in a vicious cycle.
John W. Kennedy
More from this Issue
Hindu extremists exploit economic fears to launch attacks on Christians.
Vishal Arora, Compass Direct
Supreme Court mulls lethal injections as Christian support for the death penalty drops.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
Muslim and Christian leaders seek common ground in conciliatory letters.
Jocelyn Green
Post-assassination political fight puts the church at greater risk.
Susan Wunderink
Comments on teaching evolution, comparing Episcopal dissidents to child abusers, and more.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
A professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Dilulio is the author of Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-Based Future.
Interview by Paul Hughes and Madison Trammel
Malaysia bans non-Muslim publications from using "Allah," Episcopal church takes disciplinary action against two conservative bishops, and April issue to be CCM magazine's last.
Tribal rivalries — including Christian-on-Christian violence — hamper healing.
Sheryl Henderson Blunt, with reporting by Sue Sprenkle in Nairobi, Kenya
Muslim states continue pressuring Christians.
Obed Minchakpu in Jos, Nigeria
Getting to the bottom of a cultural trend that has seeped into the church.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Criticisms of Willow's latest self-study do not undermine its value.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Reviving forgotten chapters in the story of redemption.
Scot McKnight
A Turkish theologian finds the image of Christ in the persecuted church.
Ziya Meral
Walter Russell Mead argues that evangelicals have a crucial role to play in American foreign affairs.
Interview by Mark Galli
Walter Russell Mead on the benefits of division.
Walter Russell Mead
Working as a barista has tested me in ways that speeches, campaigns, and protests never did.
Amy Tracy
Freedom from cultural captivity does not mean freedom from tradition.
J. Todd Billings
The Swiss retreat now tends less to philosophical skeptics than to disaffected evangelicals.
Molly Worthen
How one West Coast ministry reaps kingdom profits by planting businesses.
Paul Hughes
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
God's chosen people need Jesus as much as we do.
Stan Guthrie
In What's So Great About Christianity, Dinesh D'Souza is skeptical of skepticism and enthusiastic about the faith.
Tony Snow
Short reviews of Soldier's Heart, Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ, and Encounters of the Spirit.
John Wilson, editor of 'Books & Culture'
David Neff, editor in chief, Christianity Today Media Group
The Abstinence Teacher nearly turns fundies into real people.
Review by Betty Smartt Carter
A pie maker's gift brings energy to quirky dramedy 'Pushing Daises.'
Todd Hertz
A documentary traces the history of shape-note singing.
Review by Rob Moll
Joe Henry's Civilians portrays a country needing grace.
Jeffrey Overstreet
In post-Communist Germany, Christian political involvement is surging.
Philip Yancey