What to Watch For on Election Night

Important races, ballot initiatives, and exit poll questions.

What to Watch For on Election Night

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This article appeared in the November, 2012 issue of Christianity Today as "Spotlight: What to Watch For on Election Night".

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Christianity Today November, 2012

Cover Story

Honoring Faith in the Public Square

Wilfred McClay

The Mystic Baptist

Interview by Mark Galli

Review

How to Remove Our Bible-Reading Blinders

Christopher Hall

Excerpt

Why Love Never Ends

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Review

The Need for Creeds

Fred Sanders

Shari'ah's Uphill Climb

John Witte Jr.

God Did It

The Key to a Purposeful Life

Sarah Lebhar Hall

'Fringe' Has Always Been About Playing God

Todd Hertz

What Is the Biggest Change Evangelical Seminaries Need to Make Right Now?

Dan Kimball, Cheryl Sanders, and Winfield Bevins

News

Church and State for the Homeless

Matt Branaugh in Denver

How Gabriel Wilson Discovered his Paternal Roots—and Made a Record About It

Robert Ham

Jamie Grace Is Holding On

Mark Moring

The Truth About World War II's True Shepherds

Interview by Lisa Velthouse

News

The Trouble with TBN

Bobby Ross Jr.

News

Should Seminary Professors Be Granted Tenure?

Compiled by Ruth Moon

News

Christians Fight Israel's Marriage Ban

Ruth Moon

Editorial

How to Unfreeze the Middle East

A Christianity Today Editorial

This (Ambiguous) Political Life

John G. Stackhouse Jr.

News

Doubting China's One-Child Policy Change

Melissa Steffan

News

Crisis of Faith Statements

Melissa Steffan

Review

Review: The Church In An Age of Crisis

Matt Reynolds

Review

Review: Amplifying Our Witness

Matt Reynolds

Wilson's Bookmarks

John Wilson

My Top 5 Books on Homosexuality

Sacrilege Is Real

Letters to the Editor

News

Go Figure

News

Quotation Marks

News

Gleanings

Our 'Call'

Harold B. Smith

Questions That Drive Us

Our Latest

The stone from Jesus' tomb crushing a Roman pillar.

The Rebellious Act of Rolling Back the Stone

Richard Mouw

From Jesus to angels to the apostles, Resurrection Day instructs us on earthly and heavenly authority.

Pope Leo XIV and Pete Hegseth praying.

The Bulletin

Therapists’ Free Speech, Grads’ Careers, and Hegseth’s Imprecatory Prayer

Clarissa Moll, Russell Moore

Supreme Court ruling on conversion therapy ban, high unemployment rates of college grads, and the theology of praying judgment on enemies.

Three books on a green background.

Review

Manifest Destiny Was an Act of Volition

John Fea

Three books on early American history.

The recording studio for The Christ podcast.

Review

‘The Christ’ Audio Drama Testifies to Easter

Peter T. Chattaway

You can’t ‘come and see’ this depiction of Jesus, but you can definitely come and hear.

The earth and a golden stethoscope.

The Cross that Saves and Heals

Jeremy Treat

Good Friday’s message to a wounded world.

The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb by Hans Holbein the Younger.

The Scandal and Grace of Christ’s Saturday in the Grave

Hardin Crowder

How Fyodor Dostoevsky saw the whole story of redemption in Holbein’s painting of the dead Jesus.

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Wonderology

Cosmic Plinko

Are we here by chance?

The Evangelical Roots of North Korea’s Kim Family

Interview by Mike Cosper

Q&A with Jonathan Cheng on how the Christian gospel can be twisted for political aims.