Volume 51, Number 9
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Cover Story
Grace and idolatry run crossing patterns in the new American pastime.
Eric Miller
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Revered river endangered by pollution, overuse.
Michele Chabin, RNS, with reporting by Elizabeth Lawson
Farm bill draws out Christian reformers worried about subsidies.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra
These 10 cities have the highest rate of residents who volunteer in religious venues.
Northern Baptist's new strategy: to reach more students with less.
Madison Trammel
Comments on religious wear, cuneiform tablets, old papers, and other subjects.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
New requirements complicate missionary plans.
Michelle Rindels, RNS, with reporting by CT
Asbury's governance woes, Calif. Episcopal church property, and charges filed against abortion doctor.
New ECFA membership option designed for churches, small ministries.
Elizabeth Lawson
The Hudson Institute senior fellow discusses initial findings of the forthcoming book Religious Freedom in the World 2007.
Interview by Collin Hansen
U. S. presence in Iraq is 'allowing for the inevitable to happen.'
Ted Olsen
Beware giving the nation too much theological meaning and the Jews too little.
A Christianity Today Editorial
The NBA is as good a place as any for working out one's salvation.
A Christianity Today Editorial
When it deals with Christians and churches, the NFL doesn't always have a good game plan.
Mark Moring
Tony Dungy may be the most respected coach in the NFL—but he's also got some enemies.
Mark Moring
World Vision India head Jayakumar Christian on how the poor become movers and shakers, and movers and shakers become poor.
Interview by Andy Crouch
Love him or hate him, Mark Driscoll is helping people meet Jesus in one of America's least-churched cities.
Collin Hansen
Medieval and modern join forces in the Saint John's Bible.
Jennifer Trafton
Crusades and personal witnessing are no longer the cutting edge of evangelism.
Tim Stafford
Mitt Romney believes American values, not Mormon doctrine, should rule a President.
Interview by Collin Hansen
698,000 inmates were released from prison in the last 12 months. Most will be behind bars again by 2009. How can we keep more from returning?
Jim Romeo
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
The Iraq war calls for some serious rethinking by Christians.
David. P. Gushee
Sudden death gives way to anticipated mortality. A review of Last Rights.
Rob Moll
Short reviews of Metaphysics and the God of Israel, Hidden Iran, and Caring for Mother.
John Wilson
This novel with a fierce intelligence should resurrect him.
John Wilson
Our Creator has chosen a medium that is the most challenging of all.
Philip Yancey