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November (Web-only) 2008

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Before Turkey and Football

Whether CCM was behind the Pilgrims' exodus, what the Mayflower Compact campaigned on, and more questions to test your knowledge of Thanksgiving.

Four Christmases

Milk

Australia

Marching Farmers, Homeless Slaves

How Christianity's Jewish roots point us to a different kind of Thanksgiving.

Figuring Things Out Subscriber access only

Switchfoot's Foreman blends the Socratic and spiritual.

The Critical Difference

Budding filmmakers Ryan Smith—son of Michael W. Smith—and Mark Cowart are trying to help Christians learn how to think critically when watching movies.

Fruit Pies, Popcorn, and Music

The Pilgrim legacy goes beyond Thanksgiving to a love of music still with us today.

Report Suggests CIA Covered Up Role in Missionary Death

An attack that killed a missionary and her daughter can be traced to a reckless CIA-sponsored drug interception program.

Fire and Dating

Name that nonprofit, Mike Huckabee's biblical blunder, and stem-cells make an organ.

Slideshow: No Need to Fret

Bill Mallonee sings about hardship, but his lyrics are haunted by hope.

Loving Where it Hurts the Most Subscriber access only

Bill Mallonee has been called one of the top 100 songwriters in the world, but an audience is hard to find.

Bolt

Twilight

Reference Rainbow

What it looks like to graph the Bible's cross-references.

Sorting through the Rubble

Westmont College rebuilds after fire destroys 20 percent of its campus.

Lord of the Outcasts

Two exceptional indie films follow the lives of young men who don't fit in—and who suffer for it. But both meet Christ, in different ways, on the journey.

One Hundred Years of Wit and Wisdom

Lyle Dorsett extols G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy.

No Sweet 'Home'

Robinson's new novel deals with the harder side of life in Gilead.

What's in a Label?: sixstepsrecords

Learn how a tiny homespun record label focused solely on worship became one of the most successful in the music business today, fueled by music from the likes of Chris Tomlin and David Crowder.

For Better or For Worse with Prop. 8

Also: What rebels for Christ take to interviews, something disappears in Russia, and more.

Losing It on TV

Ruby Gettinger, a Sunday school teacher in Georgia who weighed 700 pounds, battles her obesity — and leans on God — on national television.

Surprise! You're a Muslim!

Brief conversions can be a family affair for generations.

Quantum of Solace

Catholic Bishops Warn Obama Against Expanded Abortion Rights

Freedom of Choice Act would coerce Americans and limit freedoms, they warn.

The Leadership Cult

Why are we fascinated with the very thing Jesus warned us against?

Listening and Learning in the Middle East

What it means to act as an advocate for global engagement.

The Song of Larks

John Stott joins the feathered chorus.

Essays in Orni-Theology

With a Bible in one hand and binoculars in the other, John Stott opens window to the world of winged ones.

Ten Commandments Displays Head Back to Supreme Court

Can a display be government speech without the government actually endorsing the message?

Catholic Bishops Debate Pro-Life Statement 'With a Punch'

Some say earlier statement on politics has been misused.

Third Episcopal Diocese Votes to Secede

Quincy diocese in Illinois is the latest; Fort Worth is expected to be next.

A Christian Cure for OCD?

Psychiatrist Ian Osborn claims that trust in God can overcome mental illness.

Slumdog Millionaire

Northwestern Tempest

St. Paul college seeks reconciliation amid ongoing identity conflict.

Missions in Crisis

Korean church leaders look back on the 2007 kidnapping that brought Afghanistan ministries to the world's attention.

'Fireproof' Is Hot Subscriber access only

Meanwhile, Billy: The Early Years of Billy Graham bombs at box office.

How to Be Un-Born Again

India's biggest radical Hindu group aims to wipe out Christianity through reconversions and violence.

U.S. Christian Leaders Protest Anti-Christian Violence in India

Open letter to George W. Bush urges diplomatic action.

Changing of the Guard

What happens to the Religious Right?

Billy Graham Turns 90

The famed evangelist proves an old dog can learn new tricks.

Who's Obama Praying With?

Also: Without Walls hits barrier, Billy Graham turns 90, and Dawkins leaves Oxford.

Q&A: Billy Graham at 90

An e-mail interview on getting older, the presidential campaign, missing Ruth, and other topics.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

House

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Joel Hunter Prays with Obama

Evangelical pastor believes the new president-elect will have a listening ear.

Quotation Marks: Billy the Sage

Graham's thoughts on retirement, what experience does to an evangelist, and more.

Why Zondervan Bought BibleGateway.com

CEO Moe Girkins wants to take the site beyond just verses. iTunes-style commentaries, anyone?

Election Honeymoon

Will evangelicals learn to work with an Obama administration?

On the Road with Atheism III

Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson walk into a bar ...

All Eyes on California

The presidential contest there is predictable, but the state's marriage proposition is closely contested.

What to Watch for on Election Night

Scholars and Christian leaders look beyond the red and blue map.

Print the Legend

The great director John Ford's American pilgrimage included many films informed by his Catholic roots, even though he found biblical stories "pretty dull."

On the Road with Atheism II

Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson, together again.

Buy Local

What does ecclesiology have to do with the election?

Homecoming: Overlake Worship

Letters to the Editor, Volume II

Ransomed

Gold and the Sand

Live: Hope at the Hideout

Don't Miss

Rob Bell's 'Ginormous' Mirror

Rob Bell's 'Ginormous' Mirror

To read his book is to read about our fascination with ourselves.