Corpse Bride and Just Like Heaven are charmingly spooky, but are critics swooning? Plus, reviews of Lord of War, Junebug, Cry Wolf, Venom, The Thing About My Folks, and more reviews of An Unfinished Life and Echoes of Innocence

The Exorcism of Emily Rose stirs up a film critics' fracas. Plus, reviews of The Man, An Unfinished Life, Echoes of Innocence, and further responses to The Constant Gardener and Underclassman.

Critics praise The Constant Gardener, visit 2046, dump The Transporter 2, blast A Sound of Thunder, flunk Underclassman, and remain unpersuaded by Pretty Persuasion. Plus, more reviews of Undiscovered and The Brothers Grimm.

Grim reviews for The Brothers Grimm, The Cave, Undiscovered, and The God Who Wasn't There. Plus, more reviews of Red Eye, Murderball, Sky High, Valiant, and Broken Flowers.

Plus: Schwarzenegger vetoes gay marriage bill while Connecticut offers civil unions, more from the Intelligent Design trial, Christians in the academy, and more articles from online sources around the world.

Plus: Intelligent Design on trial, John Roberts and Tom DeLay, Wisconsin votes to ban human cloning, street preachers, and more articles from online sources around the world.

Plus: Little hope for Zimbabwe opposition, Vatican to ban gay seminarians, prayer at the pole, the Bible Literacy Project and more articles from online sources around the world.

Plus: Washington Nationals religion controversy, Switchfoot in trouble over music piracy, The 100-Minute Bible, and other stories from online sources around the world.

Plus: Layoffs reported at Focus, Mass. Legislature overrides Plan B veto, and other stories from online sources around the world.

Plus: The Onion covers "home churching" as The Daily Show does evolution, and links to non-satirical stories from online sources around the world.

Plus: Judge says JN36TN plate confusing but forbidden, NY Post says prominent pastor admits affair, and other stories from online sources around the world.

The theodicy questions change as human depravity rears its ugly head in New Orleans.

Food, water, supplies still making their way to hurricane victims.

Plus: FDA official quits over Plan B, UMC's first Korean-American bishop resigns, and other stories from online sources around the world.

Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco declares Wednesday a day of prayer.

The wave of the future needs the wisdom of the past.

M. Scott Peck's People of the Lie explores the dimensions of human and satanic evil.

Following Katrina, relief efforts overwhelmed by second flood of evacuees.

How the Anabaptist emphasis on practical acts of love led a tightly knit enclave to reach out to the world.

Salvation Army Maj. George Hood praises public generosity, reminds volunteers of the long road to recovery.

The man who led the President's Council on Bioethics brought protests from the industry and directed groundbreaking studies.

Richard Foster and Dallas Willard on the newly  published Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible.

On a trip to New Zealand, the author spent a day on the movie set of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. He came away impressed with everything he saw.

Charities must now frame issues so that donors believe they are giving to innocent victims.

How a "Holy Ghost revival" among child widows in India became an international sensation and a local wellspring of Christian outreach.

A New Orleans pastor takes care of his scattered flock from Houston.

With churches damaged and congregations dispersed, measuring Katrina's impact has been nearly impossible.

Neither the fury of Katrina nor inefficiencies of government can stop the people of God.

What Gulf churches were doing on the first Lord's Day after Katrina.

Ministry in the Astrodome and beyond.

How churches in Houston, among other cities, began picking up the pieces.

Court believes Christian's story, says China has the right to maintain social order.

Jennifer Carpenter, who plays the title character in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, is so convincing in her role that colleagues on the set nervously joked that maybe she really was possessed. (She isn't.)

Christian and secular musicians from all over the country are stepping up to the plate to help Hurricane Katrina victims and their communities.

In this candid conversation, Pat Boone talks about his new album, his all-star tribute to Billy Graham—featuring his old "pal" Bono—and that, uhh, heavy metal thing.

"We're in this thing for the long haul" without government money, church leaders warn.

Today's intentional communities are very different, and very similar to, those formed in the '70s.

Would a Protestant form of monasticism help liberate evangelicalism from its cultural captivity?

A future government will have to untangle the threads of a document that claims to be both Islamic and democratic.

The Washington Post muddles a major breakthrough in adult stem-cell research, while the U.K. marches blindly on.