Weblog: Atheist No More, Flew Still Rejects Revelation
Plus: LA Times praises Jesus, Eames says ECUSA won't be disciplined, China's Craze Mass, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog (Second Helping): Revenge of the God Billboards
Plus: Britain discusses euthanasia while the Netherlands euthanizes babies, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

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

Fill an Empty Cradle
Falling birthrates demand new priorities for families.
A Christianity Today editorial

Weblog: Senate Passes Fetal Homicide Bill
Plus: Former Archbishop of Canterbury criticizes Islam, The Passion of The Christ opens overseas, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Inside CT: Birth Stories
"Even God incarnate in Jesus Christ, born of Mary, has a birth story of sorts"
Timothy C. Morgan

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

Weblog: Supreme Court Will Rule on Ten Commandments Displays
Plus: Catholic bishops challenge Kerry as evangelical theologians criticize Bush, 110 Iraqi Christians killed, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

A Crumbling Institution
How social revolutions cracked the pillars of marriage.
By David P. Gushee

Until I See His Face
Louise Walker

Community and Conscience
Catholics and contraception.
Jenell Williams Paris

Bad Seed
Why did so many American churches embrace eugenics?
By Philip Jenkins

Weblog: Kerry Touts His Sleeveless Faith
Plus: Mugabe's demand for church support, Economist predicts a new golden age of giving, new claims about the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other stories from online sources around the world.

"Complicit Guilt, Explicit Healing"
Men involved in abortion are starting to find help
John W. Kennedy

Saved by sonogram
Ultrasounds help crisis pregnancy centers reduce abortion
Mark Stricherz

'Political Witch Hunt'
New York attorney general goes after crisis pregnancy centers.
Sheryl Henderson Blunt

Christian History Corner: One Nation Under Secularism
France's peculiar aversion to public religiosity is rooted in a sordid history of sectarian violence.
By Collin Hansen

The Groves of Academe-Salt, Light,and Affirmative Action
Robert B. Sloan Jr.

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

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

Lewis the Letter-Writer
An unconscious autobiography in two volumes of correspondence.
By Michael Ward

Weblog: Hell House Goes Hollywood
Plus: Ethicists vs. the Bush campaign, Falwell's law school, DNA testing the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

"Books & Culture's Books of the Week: Faith, Hope, and Charity in North Carolina"
New novels by Michael Morris—whose first novel, A Place Called Wiregrass, was a word-of-mouth hit—and Jan Karon, who continues her beloved Mitford saga
Betty Smartt Carter

Inside CT: Latest Books by CT Staff
On issues from foster care to the future of missions. Christianity Today staff have been writing for more than the magazine
David Neff,

Empty Nesters Undertake Second Parenthood
By Christine J. Gardner in Glen Ellyn.

When Backward Is Forward
Christmas may be the best argument against genetic enhancement.
by Andy Crouch

When Does Personhood Begin?
And what difference does it make?
By Bob Smietana

Weblog: Baylor Regents to Assess Expansive Vision
Plus: Bush says God speaks through him; VeggieTales goes south, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Muslims at Home in America
Christians have a part to play in helping Islam adapt to democracy.
A Christianity Today editorial

Weblog: Presbyterian Church of America Shoots for the Hip
Plus: More on Dean on religion, Clark on abortion, Jack Kelley admits he was forced to quit USA Today, and other stories from online articles around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

400K and counting
Christians recoil at explosive growth of frozen human embryos
Bob Smietana

Weblog: Third of Three Federal District Courts Calls Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Unconstitutional
Plus: A pastor's plagiarism penitence, The New York Times gets Christian higher ed right twice in a week, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Another Small Step for Life
Recent federal bill recognizes the humanity of the fetus for the first time.
By Mark Stricherz in Washington

Weblog: Evangelicals and Catholics Really Together?
Plus: One federal judge rules partial-birth abortion ban unconstitutional with two more yet to rule.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Why I Apologized to Planned Parenthood
My difficult unplanned pregnancy impelled me to show a little more grace.
By Jemila Monroe

Pro-Abortion Madness
The abortion lobby has abandoned its rationales amid pro-life gains.
By Ted Olsen

Weblog: Against Abstinence
What a South Dakota State Library debate pitting Christianity Today against Planned Parenthood reveals about the sexual left.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Why I Apologized to Planned Parenthood
My difficult unplanned pregnancy impelled me to show a little more grace.
By Jemila Monroe

Until I See His Face
Louise Walker

NEWS: Should Expectant Mothers Be Tested for HIV?
Experts debate how to reduce AIDS in newborns.
Thomas S. Giles

Abortion: Virginia OKs Abortion Restriction
NARAL says 43 prolife measures were passed at the state level last year.
Religion News Service

Lessons in Persuasion from the Cause for Life
Clarke D. Forsythe

Post-Election Faith at Work
The next four years will not be a cake-walk for the pro-life, pro-family cause.
By David Neff

Why I Apologized to Planned Parenthood
My difficult unplanned pregnancy impelled me to show a little more grace.
By Jemila Monroe

Putting (Pro)Life into the Party
Democrats shouldn't be afraid of being pro-life says Democrats for Life's Kristen Day.
Interview by Rob Moll

Southern Baptists Boot Gay Protesters
Messengers at St. Louis convention pick Prestonwood's Jack Graham as new leader
Eric Reed

Pastors Aim to Sink Battleships
Twenty clergy are arrested at protest over Britain's Trident submarines.
Cedric Pulford

Churches Have Not Worked to End Dowry Practice
India's women are seen as less valuable than men in a society that supports bride burnings and suicide.
Anto Akkara

Weblog: Death Sentence For Three Pakistanis Who Attacked Christian Hospital
Plus: Wesley Clark's change of tune on abortion limits, more Ten Commandments disputes, poor clergy criticized, and many other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Reruns
"Terri Schiavo is no longer being starved to death, and many other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

Will the Partial-birth Abortion Ban Save Lives?
Most prolife groups say the ban in itself is not what is important
Rob Moll

"Weblog Lite: Russian Orthodox Church Defrocks Priest, Razes Church After Gay Wedding"
"Church shooting during communion, human cloning issue goes to the U.N., and many other stories from online sources around the world."
Ted Olsen

Abortion pill critic named to drug panel
David Hager appointed to committee despite criticism from prochoice camps
Stan Guthrie

"RU-486: After two die, Danco Labs warns doctors about dangers."
Danco Labs warns doctors about dangers of 'early option' pill
Stan Guthrie

The Legend of Bono Vox
Lessons learned in the church of U2.
By Scott Calhoun

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

Civil Unions: Would a Marriage by any Other Name Be the Same?
Some theologically conservative Christians support civil unions and remain opposed to same-sex marriage.
By Rob Moll

Rites of Passage
Debs and pledges
Lauren F. Winner

A False Cry of Peace
Wilfred Mlay, World Vision's regional vice president for Africa, discusses the crisis facing black Muslims in Darfur.
Interview by Stan Guthrie

Where Stormie Finds Her Power
Stormie Omartian is a bestselling author precisely because she doesn't have a picture-perfect life
By Tim Stafford

Weblog: 12 Injured in Attack on Pakistan Bible Society
Plus: Buddhists burn another church in Sri Lanka, some conservative Christians are nonplussed by Bush's marriage initiative, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Who Cares About Care?
Jean Bethke Elshtain

Where Babies come from
Agnes Howard

Who Cares About Care?
Jean Bethke Elshtain

Weblog: Bush Signs Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
The court battle has already begun
Rob Moll

Roe vs. Judicial Sense
Forget briefly its immorality—it's just bad law
Stephen L. Carter