Volume 50, Number 9
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Cover Story
Calvinism is making a comeback—and shaking up the church.
Collin Hansen
More from this Issue
Virginia megachurch sues county for barring theology courses.
J. Edward Mendez, RNS, with reporting by Jason Bailey
Students sue when Christian school expels them for 'lesbian behavior.'
Brad A. Greenberg
Legacy of Guatemala's evangelical deposed dictator remains unsettled.
Deann Alford
Recent comments from President Bush, a Mississippi imam, and others.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
The Pulitzer Prize winner says, "Evangelicals have influence in the White House that The New York Times columnists do not."
Interview by Collin Hansen
Uganda's civil war, female Anglican bishops, Jews for Jesus lawsuit, and stem cell veto.
CT staff
GARBC distances itself from college after Southern Baptist endorsement.
Rob Moll
Mideast Christians writing for our website expressed their anguish—and anger.
Ted Olsen
Democratic Senator Barack Obama gets it mostly right.
A Christianity Today Editorial
It's about the rule of law, not the morals of film.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Why Christians should welcome, rather than stigmatize, unwed mothers and their children.
Amy Laura Hall
Dallas Willard was on a quiet quest to subvert nominal Christianity.
Christine A. Scheller
Why we need to really die before we can really live.
Cornelius Plantinga Jr.
Bob Webber's fingerprints are all over a new call to live the narrative that really matters.
Interview by David Neff
The full text of an appeal to live the biblical narrative.
Augustine's words after the 'barbarian' destruction of Rome have a remarkably contemporary ring.
Timothy George
Samuel Rodriguez wants to build a bridge between Hispanic and Anglo evangelicals.
Tim Stafford
"Holy Spirit religion" is quietly infiltrating the church, revitalizing us all.
Chris Armstrong
In their zeal for social change, some evangelical activists stand on shaky biblical ground.
Paul Marshall
Fewer than 10 percent of the world's languages have the Old Testament. But that's about to change.
Jeremy Weber
Two centuries after Haystack, college students remain excited about missions—but with fundamentally different assumptions.
Jonathan Rice
Evangelical lawyers spur civil rights movement forward.
Tony Carnes
Everybody knows when we're covering up our confusion with God-talk.
David P. Gushee
Contrary to rumor, the culture wars aren't over. Nor should they be.
Stan Guthrie
Besides Jesus, what drove Jews and Christians apart from the beginning?
Chris Hall reviews Jaroslav Pelikan's 'Whose Bible Is It?'
N.T. Wright argues that Christianity better comprehends our deepest human longings.
Reviewed by James W. Sire
Robert Wuthnow examines why religion fails to change American society.
Douglas LeBlanc reviews 'American Mythos'
A prison minister who led the mass-murderer to Jesus tells the story.
Reviewed by Greg Taylor
How our neighbor to the north lost its faith.
Reviewed by Mark Noll
Kevin Phillips's new political screed is stranger than fiction—much stranger.
Reviewed by Collin Hansen
A top-notch scholar drops academic language for a basic retelling of Jesus'
Reviewed by Gary M. Burge