Experiencing God's Presents
"The church is not a bus where one person does the driving. It's like an anthill, where everyone works"
J.I. Packer

Editor's Bookshelf: Biology Class for the Church
Howard Snyder maps the genome of the body of Christ
David Neff

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

Weblog: White House Speechwriter Talks About the Bush Code
Plus: U.S. News phones it in on prayer, Indonesian churches attacked, Mormon author disfellowshipped, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Christians in Iraq, Bethlehem Face Difficult Christmas
Plus: The Polar Express an evangelical film? religious people allowed on New Jersey juries, the battle for Christmas, new approach in the Sudan, Sikhs violently protest British play, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

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

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

Weblog: U.S. Protestant Majority Gone By End of Year, Says Survey
Plus: Christians in Iraq, Terri Schiavo, Moore's monument, home churches, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Debates on Debates on Church Discipline
Catholic bishops will issue statement on Communion as a Matthew 18 lawsuit is reinstated against a Texas Bible church. Plus: Samuel Huntington on why atheists are outsiders, religious leaders apologize for Abu Ghraib, and many other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Keeping Conflict Healthy
The Leadership Forum

Leadership Surveys Church Conflict
Bad news: 95% experience conflict. Good news: 94% report positive results.
By Eric Reed

A Decisive Turn to Paganism
Has the nation finally abandoned its Judeo-Christian heritage, or is there still hope?
By Harold O.J. Brown

Weblog: The Evangelical Voting Gap
Plus: Bishop responds to pagan priests story, Godless EU constitution signed, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Breaking the Speech Limits
How activists are trying to deny democracy, and why a bill designed to extend free speech won't pass.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Bush Wants Church Support, Opponents Cry Foul
Plus: Taliban kills Christian in Afghanistan, court rejects judge's ruling in lesbian custody case, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Anglican Primates Respond to the Windsor Report
What church leaders from around the world are saying about the Eames Commission and the future of Anglicanism.
Compiled by Barbara Gauthier

Stronger Action Needed, Say Global Anglican Leaders
The primates will add teeth to Windsor Report, conservatives predict, hope.
By Kathleen Rutledge

Methodists Divided on Split
Church leaders react to talk about division.

Weblog: IRS Investigating 20 Churches, 40 Other Non-Profits for Illegal Campaigning
Plus: Terri Schiavo will be fed indefinitely, Buttiglione withdraws, and many other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Separation of Church and Store
Plus: Bulldozing a church, murdering an atheist, Britain's designer babies, and apparently today is Election Day.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Do the Wages of Sin Apply After Conversion?
Plus: Religious conservatives love Gonzalez as AG, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Turning the Mainline Around
New sociological studies show that evangelicals may well succeed at renewing wayward Protestantism
Michael S. Hamilton and Jennifer McKinney

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

Reflections: Quotations to Stir Mind and Heart
Reflections on the occasion of John R.W. Stott's 80th birthday
Richard A. Kauffman

Too Racy for Bible Study
Origen could not believe the Song of Songs was a hymn to erotic love. So what did it mean?
Warren Smith

Editorial: Honest Ecumenism
The Vatican's recent statement on the nature of the church is a step forward, not backward, for Christian unity.
Christianity Today Editorial

Why Join a Church?
A defense of and old-fashioned idea.
Ben Patterson

Connecting the Generations

New Methodist Leader Will Focus on the Family
General Secretary of the World Methodist Council wants to promote unified church identity.
Chris Herlinger

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Weblog: Bush's Agenda at Religious Broadcasters' Meeting Isn't Just Political
Study says low pay for clergy is hurting the church, an Orthodox monk dies in Mt. Athos standoff, and other stories from online sources around the world
Ted Olsen

The Third Coming of George Barna
He believes his ten-year campaign to reform the church has failed. What is evangelicals' most-quoted statistician going to do next?
Tim Stafford

Plus: Barna's Beefs
His nine challenges for American Christianity

Means and Ends
The spiritual theology of Eugene Peterson.
Lauren F. Winner

Community and Conscience
Catholics and contraception.
Jenell Williams Paris

No Easy Saint
Bonhoeffer and just war.
Ragan Sutterfield

American Idols
Larry Crabb says there's something better than control and success.
The Leadership Interview

The Countercultural Creed
What are Christians really doing when they stand up and say I believe?
Luke Timothy Johnson

Let's Dance
Bryan D. Spinks

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

Is the Reformation Over?
Well, if you have to ask …
Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom

Evangelicals & Catholics
The state of play
J. I. Packer

Operation Human Rights
How evangelicals got outside their comfort zone to help the oppressed overseas.
By David Neff

Churches, Charity, and Civil Society
The debate over faith-based social services.
By Joseph Loconte

7 Habits of Racially Mixed Churches
How to achieve ethnic diversity—and die (to self) trying.
Reviewed by Douglas R. Sharp

Affectionate Patriarchs
In the popular imagination, conservative evangelical fathers are power-abusing authoritarians. A new study says otherwise.
An interview with W. Bradford Wilcox

Fun, Friendly Advice
The Unauthorized Guide to Choosing a Church leads church hunters through the liturgy, the lingo, and the lunacy
Cindy Crosby

Koreans Plan Historic Easter Prayer for Christian Unity
"Taking advantage of calendar anomaly, Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox will celebrate together"
Min Sungsik

Vatican's New Ecumenical Officer May Smooth Relations with Protestants
Walter Kasper has criticized Dominus Iesus for treating Protestant denominations as not churches in the proper sense
Luigi Sandri

Soul Health
You can't be fruitful if you neglect the Source.
By Mindy Caliguire

Authentic Fellowship
How do we learn the deep 'one another' community of Scripture without being in close proximity?
Karen Shepard

Good & Evil in Middle-earth
The characters are mythic, but the epic sweeps across a Christian moral landscape.
Ralph C. Wood

Best Christian Places to Work: What Burnout?
The Coalition for Christian Outreach takes seriously its responsibility to care for employees
Helen Lee

Always in Parables: Rekindling Old Fires
We can resist technology's chilling effects on how we spend time together
Andy Crouch

Koreans Plan Historic Easter Prayer for Christian Unity
"Taking advantage of calendar anomaly, Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox will celebrate together"
Min Sungsik

Baylor Reaps the Enlightenment Whirlwind
"Ultimately, the challenge to creating a top-level Christian research university lies in combating individualism gone awry"
Ralph C. Wood

Always in Parables: Amplified Versions
Worship wars come down to music and a power plug.
Andy Crouch

Koreans Plan Historic Easter Prayer for Christian Unity
"Taking advantage of calendar anomaly, Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox will celebrate together"
Min Sungsik

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.

Koreans Plan Historic Easter Prayer for Christian Unity
"Taking advantage of calendar anomaly, Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox will celebrate together"
Min Sungsik

"As White House Pushes Ahead on Funding Faith-Based Groups, Senate Wants to Wait a Year"
"Madalyn Murray O'Hair's remains identified, religion and television, and other stories from media sources around the world."
Ted Olsen

New Methodist Leader Will Focus on the Family
General Secretary of the World Methodist Council wants to promote unified church identity.
Chris Herlinger

Growing Edge: Book Reviews

Editorial: Billy Graham's Soulmate
T. W. Wilson exemplified the sacrificial spirit that makes team ministry work.
Christianity Today Editorial

Editorial: Billy Graham's Soulmate
T. W. Wilson exemplified the sacrificial spirit that makes team ministry work.
Christianity Today Editorial