Articles in this Issue
America the Ambiguous
The paradoxes of a chosen nation
The Groves of Academe
Arguing About God, Arguing with God: Remembering Lew Smedes
Railroads and Civil Rights
Race and labor aboard the iron horse
The Pull
Two lives drawn to God
Bankrupt Nation
The prevalence of debt in an oasis of prosperity
Not-So-Poor-Richard
Tracing market ideology in Protestant evangelical thought
What Happened in Salem?
The little-known role of Indian wars in an infamous historical episode
The Disappearance of Punishment
Metaphors, models, and the meaning of the atonement.
Acting Christian
Nuanced testimony in a new mission field: the theater
Reading God’s Two Books
Reconciling the written Word with the starry skies
The Land
Evangelicals and Israel
Desperately Wicked
Reckoning with evil
Let Us Prey
The menace of nanotechnology in storytelling and science
My Friend, the Spy
An FBI colleague on the life of Robert Hanssen
Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
Seeking substance and servanthood in a self-help genre
Heaven for a Terrorist
How are our actions judged?
Skeptical Resurrection
A sci-fi—and psy-fi—journey into space
Hungry Eye
The Two Towers and the seductiveness of spectacle
A Bloody Shame
Gangs of New York and the apotheosis of Martin Scorsese
The Shocking Truth About John Wesley
A visit to the cradle of Methodism
The Re-Invention of Love
Piecing together the ancient poetic fragments of Sappho
The Hymn
How ordinary belivers found their voice through song