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Cover Story
Bono’s American Prayer
“The world’s biggest rock star tours the heartland, talking more openly about his faith as he recruits Christians in the fight against AIDS in Africa.”
Features
Kenya: Churches celebrate new president
“They are pushing for health care, free education, and an improved economy”
Spiritual Misfits
Sutter’s Cross is filled with true-to-life church characters
Rejuvenating Prayer
God Encounters’ imaginative essays find new approaches to an ancient practice
A Case Study in Greed
The Tao of Enron takes lessons from the second-largest bankruptcy in American history
A Newer Kind of Christian
Brian McLaren’s sequel to A New Kind of Christian touches other tenets of faith
Exegeting Bill Gothard
Three Christian apologists evaluate the conference speaker’s life and teachings
The Struggle to Love
“If the Holy Spirit is in us, why can’t we love one another?”
Weapons of the Spirit
“Regardless of their positions on Iraq, Christians have much they can do”
Pastor Wanted for Wedding. No Religion Required.
“In Japan, couples want a Christian-style wedding—without the religious meaning”
Quotation Marks
“Recent comments about Christians as jurists, coworkers as families, and Jesus as a terrorist”
Chinese Puzzle
Things are changing for China’s church
Under suspicion
Hong Kong’s Christians fear antisedition measures will curb religious liberty
India: Machete attack on American alarms local Christians
“Hindu militants threaten to expel evangelists, stop conversions”
Charitable-choice battle brewing
Jewish group sues over AmeriCorps support for religious groups
Boston movement’ founder quits
“Facing growth problems, controversial group changes leadership structure”
Mormon scholar under fire
Anthropologist says Latter-day Saints’ teaching wrong about Native Americans
Christian parents flee public schools
Canadian high court orders school board to reconsider pro-gay books
Abortion pill critic named to drug panel
David Hager appointed to committee despite criticism from prochoice camps
Saved by sonogram
Ultrasounds help crisis pregnancy centers reduce abortion
The Church’s Walking Wounded
How should we respond in a psychological age?
The Threat of Biotech
Joni Eareckson Tada responds to Christopher Reeve and others
Flesh and Blood in the Magic Kingdom
Frederick Buechner’s most recent works shed light on the shadows of the human heart
Full of Sound and Fury
Polemics at home and abroad does not prevent religious persecution
Cry Freedom
Forget ‘quiet diplomacy’—it doesn’t work
News
Reviews
Bono’s Thin Ecclesiology
Any person can stand outside the church and critique its obedience to the gospel
Pop Music with Brains
“From the beginning, U2 has engaged spiritual questions”
Views
Perestroika of the Spirit
“In Russia, the vocabulary of faith needs interpreters”
Willing to Lose
By voting we place our hope in the next world
Justice
Quotations to stir the heart and mind