The CT Review: Decoding Generations Two books are optimistic about the coming generations but for different, and sometimes contradictory, reasons. Wendy Murray Zoba
Christian History Corner: Heaven Can't Wait Mass suicides, like last week's in Uganda, may be a newer tactic, but the temptation to predict, even force, the coming of kingdom bliss is not. By Elesha Coffman
Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Back to the Future A sprawling new novel by the author of Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon goes to the 17th century to investigate the birth of the modern world. (You won't be surprised to learn that the Puritans are among the Bad Guys.) Albert Louis Zambone