It's well nigh impossible to hate the warm-hearted Harry Potter. A review of 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.'

"Big screen and small screen features focus on C.S. Lewis, WWII pacifists, and young love"

If you want to know Martin Luther King Jr., consult his sermons.

But is it possible to both free the missionaries and eradicate their captors? And does it really help the war on terrorism?

A progress report.

Plus: Hindu radicals' latest lie about Christians in India, and other stories from around the world.

Religious columnists find flowers growing in television's wasteland. Part 2 of a midseason look at TV.

Plus: DeMoss tries to explain Power for Living to a hostile Germany.

The Golden Globes honored A Beautiful Mind this week, a true story that tells very little truth. Also: Black Hawk Down— just a bunch of combat scenes? I Am Sam's Sean Penn—begging for an Oscar? Orange County— not another teen movie? Snow Dogs—a must see

Plus: Dove Award nominations, Episcopalians will have to elect a pro-gay Washington bishop, and other stories from around the world.

Inter-American human rights court may be the evangelical's last hope.

Former Anglican archbishop Peter Hollingworth denies that he failed to offer support to victim's family.

Former Anglican priest in New South Wales sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Plus: Martin and Gracia Burnham have been held for nine months and counting. And it's worth freeing them, despite what some are saying.

The Nazis planned to obliterate Christianity, too, according to newly published Nuremberg documents.

Biblical events take on a special significance at Istra's New Jerusalem.

Is popular history getting a bad rap?

Plus: Ralph Reed reportedly connects Enron to White House, and more horrible deaths at an evangelistic rally in Nigeria.

The Pope tells religious groups, Violence never again! War never again! Terrorism never again!

Plus: Hard ministry in Las Vegas, the other Christian music boom, and more stories from around the world.

The government continues to persecute believers while giving a guarantee for the safety of returning refugees.

One year after Bush outlined his plan to let religious social-service groups compete for government funds, little has actually made it through Congress.

Diverse working group's recommendations represent the minimum, not the maximum, that is politically possible.

Plus: Herod's death revealed, and the school flier that almost undid more than two centuries of religious freedom.

What critics are saying about the portrayal of Christians in A Walk to Remember and The Count of Monte Cristo. Plus: The Mothman Prophecies, Kung Pow, and part one of a 2002 preview.

Taking offense in the land of absurdity

Plus: New big life ethics stories, and many other articles from around the world.

Does the passion of a few nineteenth-century Chicagoans still influence American policy in the Middle East?

Letters from imprisoned Christian women in China describe assaults with electric clubs

Books to watch for this year

Egypt's new trial for Muslim-Christian riots in El-Kosheh

A Christian president denies Jesus' divinity, and why affluent whites are converting to Islam.

Sentence likely to be commuted to imprisonment, but church remains in danger

China tells U.S. to butt out—it'll persecute Christians as much as it wants

The average convert to Islam is 31 years old. Why does Christianity attract mostly teens?

Christian population drops from 86 percent in 1990 to 77 percent in 2001, says American Religious Identification Survey.

What critics are saying about In the Bedroom, Gosford Park, The Shipping News, Imposter, Lantana, Kate and Leopold, and How High

Lisa Beamer's baby, the deaths of W.A. Criswell and Forrest Boyd, and many other articles from around the world

How much is living in sin worth? And other stories from media around the world

If society denotes a group with mutual interests and common culture, the American Society of Church History almost doesn't qualify

Decision creates opportunity to restructure position

Political intimidation has mounted in the run-up to the March presidential election

Remembering the Afghan refugees—and the church in Iran.

Milwaukee's voucher debate continues, more persecution of Christians in China, Chuck Colson's heir apparent, and niche marketing on the telly

Government officials reportedly favor plan for a larger mosque at an alternative site

Dispute follows last month's storming of the Indian parliament complex

How I grew my church through 18 years of exploring the scriptures cover-to-cover

Dallas pastor considered the father of modern conservatism in the Southern Baptist Convention

Young Life under fire in Burbank

Are there any new television shows you should be watching?

What happens when Unitarians can't learn how to be witches

Memento, Moulin Rouge, and Monsters Inc. are among the year's most meaningful motion pictures, according to readers and critics. Also: reviews of Brotherhood of the Wolf and Charlotte Gray

Religious apartheid ended in Pakistan, a Denver church gives its pastor a standing ovation for leaving his wife and children, and other stories

Belfast fights over the legacy of C.S. Lewis's home, and many other stories from media around the Internet

The most helpful church history scholarship is both broad and narrative

New legislation limits church projects, gives government jurisdiction over opening places of worship.

A multi-genre film explores life after death—with maddening results.

The Emperor's Club transcends Dead Poets Society

Tribulation Force will satisfy those who feel the movies are meant to explicitly preach the gospel.

Little Secrets avoids theological lectures but delivers an engaging story.

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