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July (Web-only) 2008

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Love Flowing Under the Night Subscriber access only

Sam Phillip's latest is haunted by heartbreak — and hope.

The Rocker

Parents and Prodigals

As my daughter leaves for college, packing up her belongings, she is still a stranger to me.

Modern Worship Is Going Nowhere

After ten years, modern worship music has become an established genre that's likely be a part of Christian music for generations to come, though it's in serious need of creative spark.

Modern Worship Turns 10

A list of the ten most influential modern worship albums from the last decade, offering new songs that changed the way we worshipped the Lord through music.

Coordinating the Head, Heart, and Hands

New president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary seeks to hold together what others pull apart.

Chariots of Fire and the Smoking Church

Where is the oldest copy of the Bible? Who is Leah Daughtry? And other questions from this week's headlines.

American Teen

Brideshead Revisited

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Step Brothers

Will Ferrell returns to dangerous—and R-rated—waters in a comedy about family that’s hardly a family comedy.

Habakkuk in Zimbabwe

We're hungry, angry, and depending on a sovereign God.

Crackup of Anglican Communion at Hand, Evangelical Bishops Say

Gloomy assessment comes from two leading Anglicans at Lambeth.

What's in a Label?: Centricity Music

Home to some of the Christian music industry's brightest and best, Centricity Music is a small label on the rise thanks to good old-fashioned techniques like artist development and fan interaction.

G.I. Joe and Tony Snow

Questions on Todd Bentley's miracle-working exclamation, Anglican idolatry according to Gene Robinson, and more.

The Dark Knight

Transsiberian

Space Chimps

Mamma Mia!

A Good Look in the Mirror

A new documentary, Lord Save Us From Your Followers, helps Christians to see what we really look like to those on the outside looking in.

It's Not Broke, So Fix It

New EFCA statement of faith clarifies positions on controversial doctrines.

Stay Positive

On Stay Positive, alternative roots rock band The Hold Steady wrestles with matters of personal responsibility in a way that's both gritty and inspiring, touching on faith with sincerity rather than cynicism.

The Magic Bible Verse

Also: Restrictions at the Christian Woodstock, why some Jamaicans don't welcome a creole translation of the Bible, and more.

Meet Dave

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Fiction for the Faith-Starved

The Shack tells a compelling, if imperfect, story.

Philanthropist Sir John Templeton Dies at 95

Presbyterian investor promoted the scientific study of faith.

Evangelical Leaders to Support McCain

Ninety, not including Dobson, met in Denver last week. They will ask McCain to consider Huckabee as VP candidate.

Hellboy, Evil, and the Cross

The Hellboy sequel opening soon is just the latest in a long line of films about battling supernatural baddies—with the Cross often wielded as a weapon of goodness.

Diminished Capacity

Tory Believers: Which Higher Loyalty?

During the Revolutionary War, many preached Loyalism as the Christian response.

Hancock

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Do You Have Something to Say?

No Looking Back

The Silver Cord

These Cold and Rusted Lungs

Kingdom of Noise

Octane

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