Christian film critics mixed on Ocean's Twelve. Plus, more reviews of Blade: Trinity, National Treasure, A Very Long Engagement, and Sideways.

Religious press critics consider I Am David, Closer, House of Flying Daggers, and Blade: Trinity. Plus, more reviews of Christmas with the Kranks, A Very Long Engagement, Finding Neverland, Kinsey, and National Treasure.

Alexander's not so great. Christmas with the Kranks makes critics cranky. But A Very Long Engagement dazzles. Plus more reviews of The Polar Express, National Treasure, Finding Neverland and Sideways.

An extra 50 minutes has been added to the multiple Oscar winner—some of it good, some of it not. But the two extra discs, loaded with terrific bonus material, are worth the price of admission.

Millard Fuller steps down as Habitat CEO after sexual harassment allegation, worries the movement will lose focus. Also, an adult stem-cell media conspiracy?

The visual and the word go hand in hand as some pastors see possibility in connecting pictures with worship.

Plus: Mr. Bean opposes British religious hate-crime bill, religious summit opens in Indonesia, Vatican condemns 'Christianophobia', Christmas dilemma, praying for the home team, and other articles from online sources around the world.

A savory collections of essays by Alan Jacobs.

Plus: Another religion clash in Egypt, a Baylor bump, and other stories from online sources around the world.

Plus: LA Times praises Jesus, Eames says ECUSA won't be disciplined, China's Craze Mass, and other stories from online sources around the world.

The birth of Christ is only the final stop when meditating this holiday season. An excerpt from Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year.

Would the Spanish friars of California's historic missions have lobbied for the separation of church and state?

Plus: Britain discusses euthanasia while the Netherlands euthanizes babies, and other stories from online sources around the world.

Plus: U.S. News phones it in on prayer, Indonesian churches attacked, Mormon author disfellowshipped, and other stories from online sources around the world.

Tom Wolfe's new novel, largely reviewed as a satiric report on the sexual mores of today's college students, is fundamentally about the nature of the human will.

New deduction rules dump Blue Book for actual sales value. That could discourage donors.

How perpetrators are more gullible than their victims. An excerpt from Cleaning Up.

Plus: Lawsuits over Christmas messages, Intelligent Design, student aid, club invitations, and many non-legal stories from online sources around the world.

The man behind the Geneva Conventions knew the heights of success and the depths of failure

More than a semi-annual crack at irregular churchgoers, the Christmas sermon has traditionally invited us to worship and wonder.

A Christmas sermon preached by Jerome.

Plus links to 322 other religion stories, including a resolution to Denver's Parade of Lights dispute, Christmas as protest, the death of Carsten Thiede, and other items from online sources around the world.

A project sponsored by Gordon College's Center for Christian Studies offers models for constructive engagement across lines of division.

Plus: Civil unions to proceed in California, the battle for Christmas continues, and more articles from online sources around the world.

Controversial theologian John Sanders on way out at Huntington.

Pastors breached Australian state's race, religion laws.

For adult children of divorced parents, the holidays aren't as happy as they are supposed to be. Author Jen Abbas has some advice.

Plus: The Polar Express an evangelical film? religious people allowed on New Jersey juries, the battle for Christmas, new approach in the Sudan, Sikhs violently protest British play, and more articles from online sources around the world.

Nigerian megachurch pastor in Ukraine takes a stand for freedom.

Celebrating Christ's birth with saints of the faith during the actual Christmas season.

The Netherlands celebrates Christmas by reenacting Herod.

And a warning about the risks of reading.

A 30-year-old ponders his spiritual journey in the evangelical subculture.

Saudi Arabia tortures Christians even as it makes human-rights gestures.

Christian groups worldwide mobilize massive relief effort to South Asia.

Jaroslav Pelikan has written a history of the Christian tradition on a scale no one else has attempted in the twentieth century.

Velankanni basilica, Christian fishermen among hardest hit.

The director of Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka meets Christian survivors straining to deliver aid to victims despite their own losses.

A ministry leader in Sri Lanka advises his colleagues on spiritual disciplines during a crisis.

An earthier version of a veteran musician brings heaven closer.