Catholic + American = ?
How a communal body made its peace with liberal democracy.
by Allen Guelzo

Two Weddings and a Baptism
It's still impossible to predict what will advance the gospel in Hollywood
Andy Crouch

Faith-based Bathing
What role does baptism play in faith and salvation?
Timothy George

Three Ways to Bring About Repentance
Lyle Dorsett

Order in the Church
Reforming doctrine was just the beginning of a vigorous campaign to restructure Christian life—at church, at home, and in each believer's heart.
Raymond A. Mentzer

Books: Why Calvin Was a Calvinist
Rediscovering the Geneva Reformer in his long-lost catechism.
Michael Horton

Breaking 80
Golfers don't want to be better people. They want to be better golfers.
Mark Galli

God the Economist
John Polkinghorne's Trinitarian reality.
Catherine and Andy Crouch

A Theology of Sound
Attentive listening.
Craig Mattson

Weblog: God and Kristof
Proof-texting the evangelicals.
Compiled by Rob Moll

How Nietzsche Found Jesus
Was the antichrist really religious?
Stephen N. Williams

Weblog: Should Christians Be Banned from the Military?
"The Pope's 25 years, the antireligious left, and many other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

Weblog: The Virgin Birth? Come on!
Millard Fuller steps down as Habitat CEO after sexual harassment allegation, worries the movement will lose focus. Also, an adult stem-cell media conspiracy?
Compiled by Rob Moll

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: Canadian Supreme Court Backs Same-Sex Marriage
Plus: Another religion clash in Egypt, a Baylor bump, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Landmark Ruling Puts Freedom of Speech in Focus
Pastors breached Australian state's race, religion laws.
By Paul Gallagher in Melbourne

Flouting Church Law
Two gay controversies likely to dominate United Methodist General Conference this week.
By Corrie Cutrer

Weblog: Christian University Under Fire for Firing Gay Professors
Plus: African Anglicans reject U.S. funds, no news is much news for Kerry's meeting with the cardinal, American missionaries shot in Guatemala and other stories (not all of them about homosexuality, we promise) from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: The Most Religious Kerry Speech Ever
Plus: The Bush Code, prominent Haitian pastor murdered, Remembering Patriarch of Alexandria Petros VII, and too many other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Reclaiming Occupied Territory
The Great Commission and the cultural commission are not in competition.
By Charles Colson with Anne Morse

Defying the Church
Front line of Communion war spreads to homosexuality.
By Bob Smietana

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

Mythical Proportions
America is not so generous, free, and innocent as it imagines itself.
Myths America Lives By, reviewed by Greg Taylor

What Heresy?
The things Neo-Gnostic seekers find lacking in Christianity-experiential insight, mysticism, a direct link to God-are already there
Frederica Mathewes-Green

Editor's Bookshelf: Ground Rules
The Creed defines the game of faith without exhausting its excitement
David Neff

The Barbarians Have Come
Reinhold Niebuhr's daughter examines her fellow Christians and finds most of them wanting.
by Paul C. Merkley

Resolved: Conventions Are Hell
Ten truths that can help reformers survive (and thrive) at annual denominational meetings
Douglas LeBlanc

Currents Shaping Our World: Switched after Birth
We're changing more than churches--also denoms and religions.

Weblog: Catholic Bishops Embrace Ecumenical Group, Reject Bible Measure
Plus: The most inaccurate Christmas song ever, protecting kids from their evil, murderous parents, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

An Arts Festival in the Heartland
Bill Gaither has succeeded in putting together an event that increases Christ through the performers' diminishment.
By Mark Allen Powell

Weblog: Pope Warns Archbishop of Canterbury of Unity 'Difficulties'
"Meanwhile, Rowan Williams speaks of a clear sense of limits in the Anglican Communion"
Ted Olsen

Going Native
Settling for my way tempts pomos, boomers, in fact, every age group. And it's deadly.
Alex McManus

Boston movement' founder quits
"Facing growth problems, controversial group changes leadership structure"
Timothy R. Callahan

Why I Walked
Sometimes loving a denomination requires you to fight
J. I. Packer

'Confessing' Christians Stick It Out
"Some conservatives, however, give up on reforming their denominations"
Robert P. Mills

Editor's Bookshelf: Body Building
An interview with Howard Snyder
David Neff

Gay Bishop Consecrated Despite Objections
"Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold, head of the Episcopal Church USA, led the service"
Douglas LeBlanc

"Christian History Corner: Our Brothers and Sisters, the Episcopalians"
The Episcopal Church needs our help. Here's why we should give it
Chris Armstrong

Weblog: James Kopp Guilty of Killing Abortion Doctor
"PCUSA top court tries its top officials, and other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

An Anglican Rorschach Test
Conservatives and liberals fide hope in statement
Douglas LeBlanc

Sailing Off into Irrelevance
The Episcopal Church's rejection of orthodoxy is sobering for evangelicals
Christianity Today Editorial

Weblog: Pope Warns Archbishop of Canterbury of Unity 'Difficulties'
"Meanwhile, Rowan Williams speaks of a clear sense of limits in the Anglican Communion"
Ted Olsen

Christians form broad alliance
Christian Churches Together in the USA announces it will launch once 25 denominations join
wire service reports

The More Things Change …
Historical perspectives on worship.
Mary Noll Venables

The Doctrine Doctor
Jaroslav Pelikan has written a history of the Christian tradition on a scale no one else has attempted in the twentieth century.
by Mark A. Noll

Sanctifying Sin
Statement affirming homosexual unions roils Anglicans.
By Debra Fieguth in St. Catharines

Good Boundaries Make Good Christians
The difference between welcome and inclusion
Good Fences, reviewed by David Neff

Human Sacrifice Redux
How the church battles deadly prophets in its midst.
By Obed Minchakpu in Jos

The Real Twelve Days of Christmas
Celebrating Christ's birth with saints of the faith during the actual Christmas season.
By Edwin and Jennifer Woodruff Tait