A Mapping Mission
Moral geography.
David N. Livingstone

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

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

In Brief
Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment, The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864, Thomas Boston as Preacher of the Fourfold State, Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901-2000, Twentieth Century America: A Brief History
Mark Noll

The Link Interview: Land of Crumbling Myths
Why the twentieth-century West—urban and explosive—ain't what it used to be.
conversation with Richard Etulain

Christian History Corner: The Man They Made a Monkey
William Jennings Bryan won the battle but lost the war against teaching evolution in the schools.
By Bruce Shelley

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

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: 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

Who Invented the 1980s?
The Carter decade
Philip Jenkins

Georgia: Can Jimmy Carter Say 'Farewell'?
By Deann Alford

Conversations: Jimmy Carter's Lesson Plan

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

The Lincoln Supremacy
John Wilkes Booth assassinated the president. Democracy proved harder to kill.
by Allen C. Guelzo

Buyer Beware
La Cession de la Louisiane and the price of national greatness.
By Kenneth M. Startup

Pro-life Groups Ready to Defend Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
Court challenge to new law expected
Stan Guthrie

Who Is My Neighbor?
The moral responsibility to halt genocide
Mark R. Amstutz

Weblog: Christian Prison Program Sued
Clinton smears Jerry Thacker to unsmear himself, and other stories from online sources around the world
Ted Olsen

Christians, Jews Form Coalition
By David Neff in Crystal City, Virginia

The Spy Who Loved Me
What's real in espionage fiction?
by Jim Ohlson

"Film Forum: In America, The Missing Explore Parent-Child Bonds"
"Religious press critics review In America, The Missing, Timeline, The Haunted Mansion, Bad Santa, The Cooler, more Cat in the Hat criticism, news about a movie studio marketing to churches, Billy Graham's views on The Passion of the Christ, and a Columbin"
Jeffrey Overstreet

How Good Parents Give Up on Their Teens
And why they need to take responsibility for the spiritual nurture of their kids.
Carla Barnhill

Weblog: Churches Reunite in Pakistan, Manhattan, and Accokeek
Plus: Columbine's religious tile dispute, discipleship after 9/11, and other stories from media around the world.
Ted Olsen

Columbus's Millennial Voyage
The famous explorer was driven across the Atlantic by more than a quest for gold and glory.
Reginald Stackhouse

From the Editor: Overlooked Questions about Columbus

Tying Their Own Hands

An Authentic Narrative of Some Remarkable and Interesting Particulars
Mark Noll delivers the first installment of a five-volume, multiauthor history of evangelicalism.
by David Hempton

Christian History Corner: 300-Year-Old Man Returns to Lead His Church
Evangelicals need this grandfather-figure more than ever
Chris Armstrong

Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley and 300-A Plentiful Harvest
Douglas Sweeney

The Lincoln Supremacy
John Wilkes Booth assassinated the president. Democracy proved harder to kill.
by Allen C. Guelzo

The Lonely Emancipator
Lincoln's legal prudence in ending the peculiar institution.
by Lucas E. Morel

Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Terrorists on Trial
How the nation responded to an earlier attack
Preston Jones

Durable Contempt
Why anti-Americanism thrives.
by Allen C. Guelzo

Christian History Corner: Resolutions Worth Keeping
"The origins of new years' resolutions, and one famous list"
Chris Armstrong

Reformed, Reforming
Michael S. Horton

Buyer Beware
La Cession de la Louisiane and the price of national greatness.
By Kenneth M. Startup

A Man of Appearances
Ben Franklin, re-appraised.
Bruce Kuklick

Minister to Freedom
The legacy of John Witherspoon.
Joseph Loconte

A Poet Reads Darwin
Mark Walhout

Recommended Resources: The Rise of Fundamentalism
The Rise of Fundamentalism
Mark Galli

The Monkey Trial
The first trial of the century revealed a great divide separating American Christians.
David Goetz

Letter from London
Susan Wise Bauer

Faith, Fear, War, Peace
Snapshots of the grim and 'happy' ministry of today's military chaplains.
By Deann Alford

Security Gaffes
Evangelical schools worry over post-9/11 visa rules.
By Bob Smietana

Amassed Media: The Drink Debate
What Christian leaders past and present have said about social drinking—and where to find them online.
By Ted Olsen

CT Classic: America's Battle Against the Bottle
Evangelical support of temperance is no cause for embarrassment in our intemperate society.
By Mark A. Noll

CT Classic: Total Abstinence and Biblical Principles
One of Christianity Today's earliest cover stories examined alcohol on the 25th anniversary of Prohibition's repeal.
By Roland H. Bainton