April
2012
Volume 56, Number 4
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![Where Are the Dads? Treating Richmond's Fatherless Epidemic Where Are the Dads? Treating Richmond's Fatherless Epidemic](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13542.jpg?h=154&w=220)
How local Christians are building human capital through public health—one man at a time.
Katelyn Beaty
![Do Pets Go to Heaven? Do Pets Go to Heaven?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13550.jpg?h=154&w=220)
An author, a professor, and an animal advocate weigh in.
Wesley Smith, Karen Swallow Prior, and Ben DeVries
![Defending Scripture. Literally. Defending Scripture. Literally.](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13551.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Not everything the Bible has to say should be literally interpreted. But that doesn't make it less powerful.
Carolyn Arends
Reviews
She left Christian music a decade ago, frustrated with the industry. Now she's back on a CCM label. Here's why.
Mark Moring
Miller's memoir comes to the big screen, but it's hardly Christian cinema as usual. PLUS: Interview with leading man, and a movie discussion guide.
Josh Hurst
![Jesus Through Jewish Eyes Jesus Through Jewish Eyes](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13553.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Why Jewish New Testament professor Amy-Jill Levine thinks Jews should know more about Jesus, and Christians more about first-century Judaism.
David Neff
![Polarizing Politics by Defending the Declaration Polarizing Politics by Defending the Declaration](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13537.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Social conservatism draws its viability from America's founding principles. A review of 'The Case for Polarized Politics.'
Andrew Walker
Picks from Carl Moeller, CEO of Open Doors USA and coauthor of 'The Privilege of Persecution'
Carl Moeller
![Tolerance—Or Else: Coercive Attempts to Impose Secular Beliefs Tolerance—Or Else: Coercive Attempts to Impose Secular Beliefs](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13538.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Secularists, D.A. Carson says, want to drive their opponents from the public square.
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
Brief reviews of 'The Monks of Tibhirine,' 'How to Win an Election,' and 'Wright Morris Territory.'
John Wilson
!['God Is Not a Genie in a Bottle': Ways We Misuse the Bible 'God Is Not a Genie in a Bottle': Ways We Misuse the Bible](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13540.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Why Eric J. Bargerhuff says we must avoid twisting Bible verses for our own advantage.
Interview by Owen Strachan
News
![Sex Sect The Family Cleans House Sex Sect The Family Cleans House](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13533.jpg?h=154&w=220)
The former Children of God movement is leaving its sex cult history behind as it shifts from radical legalism to more biblical behavior.
James A. Beverley
![Mass Appeal: Evangelicals Copy More of Catholic Playbook to Oppose Contraception Ruling Mass Appeal: Evangelicals Copy More of Catholic Playbook to Oppose Contraception Ruling](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13534.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Mandate has evangelicals and Catholics finding common ground on ethics—and strategy.
Sarah Pulliam Bailey
![Nontraditional Believers Recover Christian Community Nontraditional Believers Recover Christian Community](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13536.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Renewal in the post-war Balkans comes from outside the God box.
Melody J. Wachsmuth in Zagreb, Croatia