Cover Story
Cover Story
Why We Love Football
Grace and idolatry run crossing patterns in the new American pastime.
Features
The Good Life
Augustine says we must love the very best the most.
Go and Plant Churches of All Peoples
Crusades and personal witnessing are no longer the cutting edge of evangelism.
Latter-Day Politics
Mitt Romney believes American values, not Mormon doctrine, should rule a President.
A New Kind of Dying
Sudden death gives way to anticipated mortality. A review of Last Rights.
Whatever Happened to Samson?
This novel with a fierce intelligence should resurrect him.
Q&A: Paul Marshall
The Hudson Institute senior fellow discusses initial findings of the forthcoming book Religious Freedom in the World 2007.
Powering Down
World Vision India head Jayakumar Christian on how the poor become movers and shakers, and movers and shakers become poor.
Weeping for the Jordan
Revered river endangered by pollution, overuse.
News
News
Pastor Provocateur
Love him or hate him, Mark Driscoll is helping people meet Jesus in one of America’s least-churched cities.
News
Second Chances at Life
698,000 inmates were released from prison in the last 12 months. Most will be behind bars again by 2009. How can we keep more from returning?
News
A Kinder, Gentler Coach
Tony Dungy may be the most respected coach in the NFL—but he’s also got some enemies.
News
Fumbling Religion?
When it deals with Christians and churches, the NFL doesn’t always have a good game plan.
News
What It Means to Love Israel
Beware giving the nation too much theological meaning and the Jews too little.
News
Giving Spirit
These 10 cities have the highest rate of residents who volunteer in religious venues.
News
News Briefs: September 07, 2007
Asbury’s governance woes, Calif. Episcopal church property, and charges filed against abortion doctor.
Reviews
Bookmarks
Short reviews of Metaphysics and the God of Israel, Hidden Iran, and Caring for Mother.
‘Sculpting in Time’
Russian filmmaker sought to harrow the soul.
Views
God’s Writing Life
Our Creator has chosen a medium that is the most challenging of all.
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Editorial
All That’s Good in Sports
The NBA is as good a place as any for working out one’s salvation.
News
Bush’s ‘Theological Perspective’
U. S. presence in Iraq is ‘allowing for the inevitable to happen.’