Weblog: Two Iraqi Churches Bombed
Plus: Mr. Bean opposes British religious hate-crime bill, religious summit opens in Indonesia, Vatican condemns 'Christianophobia', Christmas dilemma, praying for the home team, and other articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Weblog (Second Helping): Revenge of the God Billboards
Plus: Britain discusses euthanasia while the Netherlands euthanizes babies, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Christianity Today News Briefs
Booting the Salvation Army, falling giving, and suing for rights.
By CT staff

Smuggling Cats for a Gay Celebrity
Love took an unusual expression for this man dying of AIDS.
By Jonathan David Taylor

Getting Older Younger
Marketing to teens and tweens
Nathan Bierma

Weblog: Israel Demolishes Foundation of Nazareth Mosque
"Mel Gibson visits Focus on the Family, Falwell gets eponymous website, and other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

Weblog: Shut Up and Embrace Diversity
Some find tolerance intolerable
Rob Moll

Censoring Christmas
Public Christmas displays, like the Ten Commandments, are allowed—as long as they don't mean anything religious
Rob Moll

"Weblog: Censoring Christian Films, Continued"
"The pope and the president, flags in church, demonic possession, and other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

Small Worldview

VeggieTales' Top Tomato
Phil Vischer's tenacious campaign to dominate family entertainment
Edward Gilbreath

Runaway Asparagus
Big Idea's Jonah is both wholesome and hip
Douglas LeBlanc

Our Man in the Orient

Our Man in the Orient
The Enduring Myth of Prester John
Nate Barksdale

(The Voice of) Larry the Cucumber Speaks
Nobody thinks growing up that they're going to be a cucumber.
Mike Nawrocki

Weblog: Veggies for Sale
Is Christian music popular among pirates? And other stores from online sources around the world
Todd Hertz and Ted Olsen

True Kitsch is Catholic Kitsch!
Brett Webb-Mitchell

The Dick Staub Interview: Trusting in a Culturally Relevant Gospel
"Os Guinness says that evangelicals have never strived for relevance in society as much as they do now. Ironically, he says, they have never been more irrelevant"

The Discontent Between Business and Artistry
The songwriter and singer of Sixpence None the Richer talk about how the business side of the music industry—and outside expectations—can constrain the creative process
Matt Slocum and Leigh Nash

Tis the Season
L. Penseur

Onward Christian Soldiers?
Religion and the Bush Doctrine.
James L. Guth, Lyman A. Kellstedt, John C. Green, and Corwin E. Smidt

A Most Unclubbable Man
The curious and instructive pilgrimage of Orestes Augustus Brownson.
Timothy Larsen

Canterbury Crackup
Eschewing church discipline has come back to haunt Anglicans.
A Christianity Today editorial

Publishing: Unfair Use Alleged
Religious groups fight Internet copyright abuses
Mark A. Kellner

Technology: No Free Cyber Ride
Churches discover old rules apply to new technologies.
by Keith Hinson

MAKING PEACE WITH COPYRIGHT LAW
Richard R. Hammar

The Top Ten Books of 2004
And a warning about the risks of reading.
By John Wilson

Road-Test
Andrw Jones

Breakthrough Dancing
A look at one of the most creative youth ministries in Hong Kong—if not the world
Tim Stafford

Only Connect
Two novels about finding—or failing to find—a structure of meaning in the mess and confusion of our lives.
Betty Smartt Carter

The Game Is Afoot
Sherlock Holmes returns—again.
John Utz

Too Much Choice?
On misdiagnosing the problem.
Andrew P. Morriss

Faith, Dogma, and Academic Freedom
The problem with narrow-minded openness
Joseph Loconte

Weblog: Britain's Battered Churches
Plus: The latest evil video game, Sinead O'Connor's religious CD, and other stories from mainstream media.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 5/22/00

An Inkeeper's Faith

The Dick Staub Interview: Ken Gire's Lord of the Dance
Patch Adams and T.S. Eliot teach us to twirl with Jesus, says the author

Breakthrough Dancing
A look at one of the most creative youth ministries in Hong Kong—if not the world
Tim Stafford

Breakthrough Dancing
A look at one of the most creative youth ministries in Hong Kong—if not the world
Tim Stafford

Running Out of Miracles
Big Idea creator Phil Vischer had his dream crumble, but he's no longer s-scared.
By Bob Smietana

Hulking Rage
An epidemic of anger at the cineplex
Jeffery Overstreet

Getting Older Younger
Marketing to teens and tweens
Nathan Bierma

Getting Older Younger
Marketing to teens and tweens
Nathan Bierma

Film Forum: Chicago's Razzle-Dazzle Runs Rings Around Other Oscar Nominees
Woe to the Academy, a preview of Daredevil, Fuller Seminary promotes Gods and Generals, and critics respond to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Shanghai Knights, Deliver Us from Eva, and Russian Ark.
Jeffrey Overstreet

The Bones in Mr. Eliot's Closet
Rediscovering the patron saint of all the flawed and haunted seekers of modernity.
Michael R. Stevens

Why Serious Preachers Use Humor
Plus: Top 25 Worship Songs

My Emerging Guilt
With one hand still clutching the smoothie, I was pulled into the conga line. How did I get here, dancing, off beat and out of touch?
By Ron Benson

Ragamuffin
The patched-up life and unshabby message of Brennan Manning.
By Agnieszka Tennant

The Top Ten Books of 2004
And a warning about the risks of reading.
By John Wilson

Listen For the Laughter

I Cried So Hard I Laughed

When Backward Is Forward
Christmas may be the best argument against genetic enhancement.
by Andy Crouch

Fighting Flight
Christians call for commitment in wake of church bombings.
By Kevin Begos

A Stopped Pulse
Financial woes kill once-influential missions newsletter.
By CT staff reports

Road-Test
Andrw Jones

Getting Older Younger
Marketing to teens and tweens
Nathan Bierma

Christian History Corner: History in a Flash
A new CD-ROM offers quick access to the facts of church history, plus interactive quizzes
Elesha Coffman

Jedi or Jesuit?
Looking for God at the cineplex.
Jason Byassee

The Movies and America
What the Academy Award nominees for Best Picture tell us about ourselves.
Drew Trotter

Weblog: Ravi Zacharias, Rich Mouw Speak in Mormon Tabernacle
Plus: Couple attempts to sacrifice children at church altar, the new head of the Catholic bishops' conference, a focus on Dobson, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Hurt by Success
Christian bookstores hit hard by competition from Wal-Mart.
By Rob Moll

A Christian History Timeline: The Life & Times of J.R.R. Tolkien

An Unexpected Party
Like Bilbo discovering one dwarf after another at his door, Tolkien found himself, in the 1960s, hosting a growing American fan club.
Michael Foster

Cheated by the Affirming Church
Contrary to what some churches teach, it is homosexuality—and not its suppression—that enslaves people like me.
by Anonymous

Weblog: What Else Pat Robertson Said
Plus: World Vision teams with Ricky Martin, Halloween hit from both sides, TBN update, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: House Fails to Pass Marriage Amendment
Britain's Terri Schiavo : Parents fight doctors to keep their baby alive. The Vatican outsources prayers. Plus: Billy Graham plans NY mission, Spain to allow same-sex marriages, reviews of Woman, Thou Art Loosed, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Tell Me the Old, Old Story—and Make It New
Apologetics for our time.
Lauren F. Winner

The Groves of Academe
A Pietist with a Ph.D.: Remembering Stanley J. Grenz
Roger E. Olson

My Emerging Guilt
With one hand still clutching the smoothie, I was pulled into the conga line. How did I get here, dancing, off beat and out of touch?
By Ron Benson

The Top Ten Books of 2004
And a warning about the risks of reading.
By John Wilson

Close The Door
Now that the evangelical satire magazine isn't just satirizing evangelicalism, it's not all that funny anymore
Ted Olsen

The Back Page: Drawing the Battle Lines
We need to be informed and discerning about the Islamic worldview
Charles Colson

Planet Dixie
Land of happy slaves and gracious masters.
Preston Jones

Free to Do What?
Emancipation reconsidered
Allen C. Guelzo

A Journalist in Babylon
The need for a critical mass in the Fourth Estate
Stan Guthrie

Discerning God's Will
"Quotations to stir the heart and mind from Van Gogh, Dante, Thomas Merton, and others"
Richard A. Kauffman

Film Forum: Chicago's Razzle-Dazzle Runs Rings Around Other Oscar Nominees
Woe to the Academy, a preview of Daredevil, Fuller Seminary promotes Gods and Generals, and critics respond to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Shanghai Knights, Deliver Us from Eva, and Russian Ark.
Jeffrey Overstreet

Arts: God's Groovemongers, Bowls & Beasts in Sharps & Flats
Latin American musicians Justo Almario and Abraham Laboriel jazz up the gospel.
by Steve Rabey

A Tale of Two Schools
Harvard is Harvard. Bethel is the it school for Baptist General Conference diehards.
Nathaniel Taylor

Cracks in the Tower
A closer look at the Christian college boom.
Allen Guelzo

Jedi or Jesuit?
Looking for God at the cineplex.
Jason Byassee