Volume 49, Number 10
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Cover Story
Rick Warren's sweeping plan to defeat poverty.
by Timothy C. Morgan in Kigali, Rwanda
More from this Issue
Why Rick Warren may succeed where others failed.
by David Neff
Can peace process work without the strong-arm Garang?
by J. Carter Johnson, with Sue Sprenkle
ELCA assembly opens door to same-sex blessings.
by Mark I. Pinsky in Orlando
Breakaway California congregation wins church property.
By Rebecca Barnes in Louisville
Recent quotes on Pat Robertson, salesman pastors, school prayer extremists, and Intelligent Design.
Compiled by Ted Olsen
Christians at the forefront of aid after the deluge in Mumbai.
by Manpreet Singh
Recent developments in Christian education, American Orthodox, and ministry in Iraq and Zimbabwe.
by CT staff
An estimated 53,000 Christians and Muslims in Nigeria's central Plateau state have died since the current round of violence began in Jos on September 7, 2001. Benjamin Kwashi is the Anglican bishop of Jos.
by Deann Alford
Killer video games are no 'safety valve'—quite the opposite.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Unless Africa tames corruption, new aid efforts will fail.
by Tony Carnes in Edinburgh, Scotland
Richard J. Foster and Dallas Willard on the difference between discipleship and spiritual formation.
Interview by Agnieszka Tennant
And the answer my autistic grandson gives.
From a new book by Charles Colson with Harold Fickett
Divine promises in the midst of suffering.
by Nancy Guthrie
A fresh look at what this controversial marriage passage says--and doesn't say.
Sarah Sumner
Pro-lifers face a scientific and public relations juggernaut.
by Stan Guthrie with Agnieszka Tennant, Sheryl Henderson Blunt in Washington, and Rob James in the United Kingdom
What does it mean when even embryonic stem-cell researchers have some qualms about their work?
by Christine A. Scheller
The little-known story of the stem cells that actually work.
David A. Prentice
How Eastern Europe's evangelicals are restoring the church's vitality.
by Nate Anderson and Leah Seppanen Anderson
The new Bible Literacy Project curriculum is impressive—as far as it is able to go.
by Mark Galli
What Gulf churches were doing on the first Lord's Day after Katrina.
by Tony Carnes with Rob Moll
Quotations to stir the heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman
We can do better when it comes to bearing the burdens of battered women.
by Janice Shaw Crouse
If you can't be saved without Jesus, what about the Old Testament faithful?
J.I. Packer
D. A. Carson's theological analysis of Brian McLaren, et al.
Reviewed by Eddie Gibbs
Ted Dekker sees himself as a reverse missionary.
Interviewed by Stan Guthrie
One reason teenagers, among others, are jammed in our prisons.
by Charles Colson with Anne Morse