Volume 51, Number 12
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Cover Story
The kingdom of God springs forth from the empty womb.
Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
More from this Issue
Fourth Protestant in a year killed by government forces.
Jeff M. Sellers, Compass Direct
Recent comments on education, wildfires, organ donation, and other subjects.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Lawsuit charges ORU president and his wife with fiscal, moral improprieties.
Bill Sherman
Orthodox Anglicans take first step in creating their own U.S. church body.
Sheryl Henderson Blunt
Nigeria mob kills 10, pharmacists don't have to fill Plan B prescriptions, and Prison Fellowship bars UCC congregation from Angel Tree.
The leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Karekin II visited the U.S. in October to support a resolution condemning Turkey's 1915-1917 Armenian genocide.
Denise McGill
New poll suggests that the Iraq war may trump abortion and gay marriage.
Jocelyn Green
Advances in stem-cell technology cheer and alarm ethics watchers.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
There's more than one "happy holiday" for Christians this season.
Ted Olsen
U.N. Millennium Development Goals are good—as far as they go.
A Christianity Today Editorial
It doesn't hurt to listen to what non-Christians think of us.
A Christianity Today Editorial
How short-term mission is becoming a two-way street.
Andy Crouch
It takes a special kind of birth to grab the world's attention.
Eugene Peterson
When The Golden Compass hits theaters this month, many will be introduced to the works of Philip Pullman, a writer who detests C.S. Lewis's fantasy world.
Peter T. Chattaway
How to respond to the next blockbuster book/documentary/movie that questions traditional Christianity.
Darrell Bock
At the first Christmas, the angels proclaimed, ‘Peace on earth.’ Just-war and pacifist Christians together can make it happen.
Ron Sider
On-campus Christians are seeking holiness in unexpected numbers.
Becky Tirabassi
Mercy Ships surgeons perform medical miracles daily in remote ports of call.
Deann Alford in Accra, Ghana
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
"How can I know I'm a Christian if I can't remember when I first responded to the gospel?"
Erik Thoennes
Will the last Mideast church leader be sure to turn off the lights?
David Aikman
Jan Karon's latest contains all her traditional charms but misses an opportunity.
Review by Lauren Winner
Short reviews of books on American reform, shyness, and the clash of Rome and Jerusalem.
John Wilson, editor of 'Books & Culture'
Douglas A. Sweeney, author, 'The American Evangelical Story' (Baker Academic).
Bush speechwriter takes a principled, though not always popular, stand.
Collin Hansen
The so-called Christmas wars are much larger than we imagine.
Charles Colson with Anne Morse