Christianity Today

The Gosnell murder case has reverberated far beyond the courtroom, changing — at least for the moment — the tone of the national debate on abortion. (AP)

Monks normally immersed in spirituality are joining the increasingly assertive tone of many in the minority community, vowing Christian voices won’t be silenced. (AP)

But Americans haven't entirely dismissed the idea that the world will come to end someday — possibly someday soon. A survey by Public Religion Research Institute showed 36 percent believe that the severity of recent natural disasters is evidence that we are in the biblically prophesied end times. (Deseret News)

A campaign of intimidation by Islamists left most Christians in this southern Egyptian province too afraid to participate in last week’s referendum on an Islamist-drafted constitution they deeply oppose. (AP)

"We were all really scared and then we prayed... Miss Kristopik gave us all lollipops. We thought it would be our last snack." (AFP)

Since Rev. Travis Smith’s arrest in October on sexual abuse and statutory rape charges, which follow similar allegations from 2010, forgiveness from his congregation has become critical to his survival as its pastor. It is this group of about 100 souls — not a bishop, nor a disciplinary committee nor national church leaders at a faraway headquarters — who will decide Smith’s future in the Southern Baptist Convention. (Post-Dispatch)

Old South Church owns two of 11 surviving first-edition copies of The Bay Psalm Book. It could fetch $10 to $20 million. (The Boston Globe)

There's no father-son preaching duo quite like the Stanleys. Imagine if Steve Jobs had a son, who created a company that rivaled Apple in size and innovation -- and they barely spoke to one another. That was the Stanleys. Neither man has ever fully explained the events that tore them apart 19 years ago -- until now. (CNN)

Julia Gillard launches most comprehensive child sex abuse inquiry in Australia's history amid fresh allegations about systemic abuses and cover-ups by the Catholic Church in NSW (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Pastor Andres Garza had told the American evangelicals to stay away from his troubled city. The drug war made it too difficult to guarantee their safety. But now they were back, in their golf shirts and sensible shoes and halting Spanish, happily milling around Monterrey's new headquarters for evangelical Presbyterians. (LAT)