Our best response to the world is to make something of it.

Dockery proposes keeping essentials and nonessentials in balance.

John Wilson's short reviews of A Step from Death, Christ and Culture Revisited, and Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat.

'Sex and the Soul' argues that universities—Christian and otherwise—desperately need this.

Donna Freitas says that when it comes to sexual ethics, nonreligious schools are failing their students.

Putting to death the noonday demon. A review of Kathleen Norris's Acedia & Me.

Why evangelicals need wise guides alongside our revivalists.

Has male-bashing crept into your church?

The Christian lawyer at the center of the U.S. attorneys scandal speaks out about his firing, faith, and future.

Campus Crusade's early tensions with InterVarsity and other college ministries. An excerpt from Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ.

Bill Bright is a compelling, flawed figure in John Turner's historical analysis of postwar evangelicalism.

Beliefnet editor Dan Gilgoff on the Religious Right's continuing role in this election.

Short reviews of Saving Darwin, The Man Who Loved China, and Transforming Worldviews.

How C. S. Lewis has shaped my faith and writing.

Amy Laura Hall argues that in God's design, family is a pretty messy thing.

The Shack tells a compelling, if imperfect, story.

The Shack is a tale of tragedy redeemed, not a theological treatise.