NEWS: Will Rwanda Be Rebuilt?

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

Sudan: CSI Loses U.N. Status
Slave-freeing organization's rebel spokesman violated U.N. rules
By Religion News Service

Threatening the Amish
How the Amish solve the legal problems of civil liberties
Ted Olsen

Campus Collisions
Why InterVarsity Christian Fellowship was derecognized at some of America's leading universities
Andy Crouch

Public Religion: Ten Commandments Judge Praised and Panned
"Roy Moore fulfills a campaign promise with a 5,280-pound granite monument"
William C. Singleton III

Weblog: Iowa Supreme Court Reinstates 'Spirit of Satan' Defamation Lawsuit
American pastor arrested in Laos, Billy Graham heads to Oklahoma City, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Ted Olsen

Baroness Caroline Cox: Rescuing Russia's Orphans

Baroness Caroline Cox: The Price of a Slave
"I was taken by a slave master [who] beat me and shamed me, telling me that I was like a dog."

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

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

Hoover to Hiroshima
So you think American history from the Great Depression through World War II holds no surprises? Read on.
by Justus D. Doenecke

Confronting Caesar
Nigerian megachurch pastor in Ukraine takes a stand for freedom.
Interview by Stan Guthrie

Christians Fear Some Backlash After India Elections
Still, they're heartened by voters' chastening of nationalist Hindus.
By Manpreet Singh

Indian Churches Hail the Defeat of Hindu-Nationalist Government
Vote consciously campaign urged Christian voters to elect secular political parties.
By Anto Akkara ENI, with CT staff

Guerrillas in Jesus Land
A different way to be Christian in America.
Garret Keizer

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

For Whom Would Jesus Vote?
Single-issue politics is neither necessary nor wise.
A Christianity Today Editorial

After Babel
Two Arab poets-one Palestinian, the other Iraqi- and the vicissitudes of exile and translation
Laurance Wieder

Reformation on the Run
Lacking political protection or religious freedom, French Reformed thinkers forged a unique expression of faith.
Martin I. Klauber

Escape from Babylon
As repression became a way of life in France, Huguenots faced three choices: convert, go underground, or risk everything to reach le Refuge.
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke

Books & Culture Corner: A Cry for Help
Sudanese Christians gather in Houston and ask for U.S. support
David C. Owens

Opinion Roundup: Are Evangelicals the 'New Internationalists?'
Evangelical leaders say New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is mostly right, but late
Todd Hertz

Afghanistan: Afghans May Starve
Relief agencies mount efforts as Christian radio begins Dari broadcasts
Sheryl Henderson Blunt

Heat Stroke
The climate for addressing global warming is improving.
A Christianity Today editorial

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

The Missions of Business
What can happen when entrepreneurs think they are missionaries first.
Reviewed by John P. Cragin

The Politics of Stem Cells
Why do some scientists and politicians insist on exploiting embryos?
Interview with C. Christopher Hook

Weblog: RNC Tells Voters that Liberals Will Ban Bible
Plus: Alan Wolfe on Democratic secularists, horoscopes vs. the Bible, Prohibition's problems, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Promise Keepers Coach Has a New Team, Aiming to Unite Christians and Messianic Jews
Plus: Jewish groups vs. the Presbyterian Church (USA), designer babies in the U.K., China reportedly detains 100 Christian leaders, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

The Unmaking of Liberia
How and why the grand experiment failed
Randal Jelks

Nightmares and Miracles
A good beginning to the long battle for human rights in North Korea.
A Christianity Today editorial

Weblog: Two Iraqi Churches Bombed
Plus: Mr. Bean opposes British religious hate-crime bill, religious summit opens in Indonesia, Vatican condemns 'Christianophobia', Christmas dilemma, praying for the home team, and other articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

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

The Moral Complexity of War
A conversation with Max Hastings
Interview by Donald A. Yerxa

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

Your Chip Is Showing
Four recent films show a battle for control among men, women, and machines.
By Peter T. Chattaway

In Search of the Good Marriage
It's not just couple-centered.
By Lauren F. Winner

Codependent No More
When Pleasing Others Is Hurting You addresses the need to be needed.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

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

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

Original Sin
Slavery and the biblical curse of Ham.
Laura L. Mitchell

Letters
"Is there any doubt that the God of Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses is indeed the God of the Muslim, the Jew, and the Christian?"

Still Somebody
"Despite an embarrassing scandal and widespread irritation with his methods, Jesse Jackson continues to be an influential voice in the church. Should evangelicals listen?"
Edward Gilbreath

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

The Nightmare of North Korea
One man's story of brutality, courage, love, and freedom.
By Kang Hyeok

Good News for the Lost, Imprisoned, Abducted, and Enslaved
Lawyers and investigators at the International Justice Mission have learned that sharing the gospel means going into the heart of darkness.
Wendy Murray Zoba

Building Alliances to Save Lives
Why evangelicals' partnership with others to fight persecution worked—and where the coalition is heading.
An interview with Allen D. Hertzke

Cry Freedom
Forget 'quiet diplomacy'—it doesn't work
Michael Horowitz

Full of Sound and Fury
Polemics at home and abroad does not prevent religious persecution
T. Jeremy Gunn

Weblog: Feds Granted More than $1 Billion to Religious Charities in 2003
Plus: The Joash tablet may not be a fake after all, Christians attacked in India and Egypt, our continuing (and exhausting) roundup of stories about gay marriage and The Passion, and other articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

My Enemy, Myself
What brings evangelicals together is also what pulls us apart.
By Telford Work

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

Nightmares and Miracles
A good beginning to the long battle for human rights in North Korea.
A Christianity Today editorial

A Heartless Homeland
Why more North Koreans than ever are fleeing their country.
By Gregg Chenoweth & Tricia Miller

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

Nightmares and Miracles
A good beginning to the long battle for human rights in North Korea.
A Christianity Today editorial

Silencing Rights Talk
Law would shut down many faith-based groups.
By Sue Sprenkle

Weblog: The Most Religious Kerry Speech Ever
Plus: The Bush Code, prominent Haitian pastor murdered, Remembering Patriarch of Alexandria Petros VII, and too many other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Two Iraqi Churches Bombed
Plus: Mr. Bean opposes British religious hate-crime bill, religious summit opens in Indonesia, Vatican condemns 'Christianophobia', Christmas dilemma, praying for the home team, and other articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

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

Weblog: Canadian Supreme Court Backs Same-Sex Marriage
Plus: Another religion clash in Egypt, a Baylor bump, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Nightmares and Miracles
A good beginning to the long battle for human rights in North Korea.
A Christianity Today editorial

Praying for Terrorists
Christians seek healing in Beslan.
By Dawn Herzog Jewell

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

Weblog: House Fails to Pass Marriage Amendment
Britain's Terri Schiavo : Parents fight doctors to keep their baby alive. The Vatican outsources prayers. Plus: Billy Graham plans NY mission, Spain to allow same-sex marriages, reviews of Woman, Thou Art Loosed, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Weblog: Supreme Court Will Hear Death Row Conversion Case
Plus: Nigeria violence spreads despite state of emergency, more on the Communion conundrum, closing Catholic churches, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Return to Kabul
Shelter Now's Georg Taubmann talks about ministry and security in the former Taliban state
Stan Guthrie

Quotation Marks
"Comments in the press about mascots, missions, and fake marriages"
Ted Olsen

'Their Faith and Courage Has Strengthened Me'
Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry speak about Martin and Gracia Burnham

Free to Do What?
Emancipation reconsidered
Allen C. Guelzo

"Human Rights: Activists celebrate as President signs Sudan Peace Act,"
But sanctions are at President's discretion
Tim Callahan

Weblog: The Slave Redemption Hoax
Plus: ABWE missionaries may sue government for Peru shooting, and other stories.
Ted Olsen

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

The Unmaking of Liberia
How and why the grand experiment failed
Randal Jelks

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

The Revolution Begins in the Pews
Trotsky and St. Benedict
Eugene McCarraher

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

Weblog: Korean in Iraq Was Killed For His Faith, Say Terrorists
Plus: What's next for the Federal Marriage Amendment, Canada's Bible ban, university relents on mandatory profanity, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Terrorizing Ally
Saudi Arabia tortures Christians even as it makes human-rights gestures.
by Jeff M. Sellers

A Heartless Homeland
Why more North Koreans than ever are fleeing their country.
By Gregg Chenoweth & Tricia Miller

The Nightmare of North Korea
One man's story of brutality, courage, love, and freedom.
By Kang Hyeok

Heaven on Earth
Ecomonics and the secular faith in progress
Andrew P. Morriss

Real Southern Living
Matthew Peed

Opinion Roundup: Naming Names
Were the State Department's actions on international religious freedom compromised by the war on terrorism?
Todd Hertz

Books & Culture 's Book of the Week: A Story Darwin Might Love
"Brian McLaren's evolutionary interpretation of the faith promises more than it delivers, but what it delivers is good enough."
Mark Galli

Cry Freedom
Forget 'quiet diplomacy'—it doesn't work
Michael Horowitz

Full of Sound and Fury
Polemics at home and abroad does not prevent religious persecution
T. Jeremy Gunn

EDITORIAL: De-Demonizing the UN
While bloated and badly in need of reform, the UN fills a necessary role that Christians should support.
Robert A. Seiple

The UN's Antifamily Manifesto
The Beijing platform downplays the family, while exalting the autonomous individual.
Diane Knippers

NEWS: Warlords Await UN Withdrawal in Somalia
Stan Guthrie