Curbing Big Brother
Christians urge Ashcroft to respect freedom in surveillance law.
Tony Carnes

Weblog: Stone Tablet Confirms Solomon's Temple, Biblical Narrative
Ashcroft goes to bat for faith-based initiative, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Ted Olsen

Weblog: Irish TV Refuses Campus Crusade Campaign
California okays embryonic stem-cell research while Ashcroft challenges assisted suicide, and other stories on life ethics
Ted Olsen

Indigenous and Evangelistic
"Isolated from the infusion of foreign missionaries by Sri Lankan laws, the island's church knows that to survive, it must focus on evangelism"
Tim Stafford

Church as Civics 101
The robust civic engagement of Protestant clergy
John Schmalzbauer

Belgium: Deported as 'Illegal'
Officials expel four Assemblies of God volunteers.
Compass Direct

CT Classic: Admen for Heaven
"Opening up minds is the first step to regular church attendance, Episcopal Ad Project says"
David Neff

Web's Latest Craze is The Prayer of Reata
"Yes, the Pope really is Catholic, and other stories from media sources around the world."
Ted Olsen

NEWS: Pentecostals Renounce Racism
Memphis gathering begins mending historic rift.
J. Lee Grady

Weblog: Schism Threatens Brownsville Assembly of God as School Head Fired
Plus: Jordan archaeologists think they might have found John the Baptist, and other articles from mainstream media sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Revival: Pensacola Outpouring Keeps Gushing
But unlike the bubbly Toronto Blessing, repentance is foremost at this revival.
by Steve Rabey in Pensacola.

Christian History Corner: Do Nigerian Miracle Ministries Discredit the Faith?
The spiritual dynamism of West African Christianity is now well known even in the West. Do credulity-stretching, highly publicized miracles discredit what God is doing in that region?
By Chris Armstrong

Christian History Corner: Timeline of the Spirit-gifted
Before Moody, Finney, Edwards, and Mather came a long line of Catholic and Orthodox believers reputed to enjoy the promise of the Father.
Chris Armstrong

Christian History Corner: Do Non-Charismatics 'Do' Holy Spirit Baptism?
Ask D. L. Moody, Charles G. Finney, Jonathan Edwards, or Cotton Mather
Chris Armstrong

New Study Reveals Which Churches Grow
High standards are key, says new survey from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research
Tony Carnes

Church of God in Christ: COGIC Presiding Bishop Ousted
Alleged abuse of power leads to historic vote for Church of God in Christ
Corrie Cutrer

Catholics, Baptists, Methodists Remain Tops

People: North America
North America

Wide Awake

Expressive Worship with Reluctant People

CT Classic: Admen for Heaven
"Opening up minds is the first step to regular church attendance, Episcopal Ad Project says"
David Neff

Kenyan President Suggests Hanging for 'Knowingly' Infecting Others with AIDS
Church organizations criticize use of capital punishment as solution to epidemic
Sam Gonza

Shelling the Salvation Army
"If William Booth's church could handle sticks and stones in the 1880s, it should withstand the recent barrage of hateful words"
Elesha Coffman

Prostitute Murders Spur Ministry
Vancouver Christians rescue women lost on streets
Debra Fieguth

Letters

News Briefs

God's Peculiar People
Historian Grant Wacker explains why Pentecostals survived and even flourished.
Edward J. Gitre

No Luddites Here
Evangelicals have (almost) always been quick to adopt communications technologies.
Randall Balmer and Catharine Randall

Willow Creek's Place in History
It turns out that the church that made seeker-sensitive a part of our vocabulary is not as revolutionary as its critics have said.
By Michael S. Hamilton

Go Figure
"Statistics on Protestant wealth, megachurches, and British Christians and Muslims"
Ted Olsen

"Walking the Old, Old Talk"
The cultural success of evangelicalism is its greatest weakness
Christianity Today editorial

The Dick Staub Interview: John Ortberg's Freak Show
Churchgoers' attempts to be average are killing them, says the Willow Creek pastor.

El Espiritu Santo
Exploring Latino Pentecostalism.
By Douglas Jacobsen

Whither Pentecostal Scholarship?
The overlap between people with the Spirit and people with Ph.D.'s.
By Arlene M. SÁnchez Walsh

"Weblog: Kenneth Hagin, 'Word of Faith' Preacher, Dies at 86"
The explicit Messiah
Ted Olsen

A Preaching Woman
The remarkable story of a former slave sheds light on the origins of African American Christianity.
Jonathon Kahn

The News from Rhosllanerchrugog
On the exemplary fate of Nonconformity in Wales.
David Bebbington

Christian History Corner: Reports of the Revival
The Confederate camp became a school of Christ.
By Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr.

Weblog: Long Island Priest Shot During Mass
Eugene Rivers accused of discrimination, the growth of Asian-American churches, and other stories from around the world
Ted Olsen

Shari'ah Law to Decide Fates in Afghanistan
Attack of the 200 Clones coming soon and Eugene Rivers's model could help Cincinnati's racial tensions
Todd Hertz

CT Classic: Separate and Equal
Martin Luther King dreamed of an integrated society. Boston minister Eugene Rivers thinks it was the wrong dream
Wendy Murray Zoba

Conversations: God's Wonder Worker
In retirement, John Wimber reflects on what he learned from building the Vineyard.
by Tim Stafford and James Beverley

Revival: Pensacola Outpouring Keeps Gushing
But unlike the bubbly Toronto Blessing, repentance is foremost at this revival.
by Steve Rabey in Pensacola.

NEWS: Vineyard Severs Ties with 'Toronto Blessing' Church

September News Wrap
"Deaths, promotions, and other tidbits from the religion world"
CT Staff

Briefs: North America

Briefs: North America