"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
Grayson Carter

An After-Christmas Gift
"A homeless man, an angel, and a reminder about our final home"
Lee Knapp

Waiting for a Miracle
The Damah Film Festival
Andy Crouch

Reflections

ARTICLE: Why Ask Why?

Desperately Wicked
Reckoning with evil
Alan Wolfe

The Dick Staub Interview: Os Guinness
Whether we're seeking or have already been found, we're all on a journey

Nights of the Living Dead
"Do horror films help us conquer our fears, or merely exploit them?"
Brad Stetson

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

Weblog: Former Labor Secretary Predicts Religious War in America
Plus: Pastor on trial for exorcism death, Chinese woman beaten to death for distributing Bibles, European court rejects wrongful abortion suit, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
Grayson Carter

"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
Grayson Carter

Reflections

EDITORIAL: Teen Gambling: The Invisible Addiction

"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
Grayson Carter

From the Editor: He Gave Us Back Myth and with it, Truth
Chris Armstrong

Father of Epic Fantasy
Scores of authors have paid Tolkien the highest homage - imitation.
Aaron Belz

Dangerous Meditations
What harm is there in achieving a higher state of consciousness through meditation?
By Douglas Groothuis

Changed by the Unchanging
A new take on the spiritual disciplines calls for a little more action and a lot more love.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

The Sage of Walden Pond
I should not talk so much about myself if there were any body else whom I knew as well.
by Lauren F. Winner

Good Grief
The School of Dying Graces says costly lessons lead to priceless wisdom.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

Communicating Communication
A roundup from the National Communication Association's annual convention.
By Nathan Bierma

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

Father Brown Fakes the Shroud
Start with a piece of glass and some white oil paint
N. D. Wilson

Reflections: Sin and Evil
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman

Whose Natural Theology?
Alan Jacobs

The Invention of Modern Witchcraft
A surprising genealogy of neopaganism.
by Irving Hexham

"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
Grayson Carter

What Heresy?
The things Neo-Gnostic seekers find lacking in Christianity-experiential insight, mysticism, a direct link to God-are already there
Frederica Mathewes-Green

A Christian Harry Potter?
Shadowmancer, Britain's hit fantasy novel, conjures darkness so the light will shine brighter.
Reviewed by Greg Taylor

"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
Grayson Carter

Hallowed Haunts
"Church organs, Hell House, and The Blair Witch Project in the news"
Ted Olsen

"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
Grayson Carter

Whose Natural Theology?
Alan Jacobs

Books & Culture Corner: The Contemplative Christian
Eugene Peterson calls believers to a life lived with wholeness, honesty, without contrivance—against the grain of much that's currently driving the church in America
Nathan Bierma

Baptism + Fire
Suffering may build character, but ultimately it's not about us.
By Mark Galli

The Passion of Mel Gibson
Why evangelicals are cheering a movie with profoundly Catholic sensibilities.
David Neff

Good Question: Operation Evil Power
If Christ has truly defeated the powers of Satan on the Cross (Col. 2:15), why do the powers of evil effectively operate in this world?
Answered by Richard B. Hays

"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
Grayson Carter

Weblog: Satanism, Sans Satan
None injured in new Pakistan church bombing, and other stories from online sources from around the world
Ted Olsen

Bring on the Pentagrams
Schools wrestle with religious freedom in the classroom.
Ted Olsen

The Invention of Modern Witchcraft
A surprising genealogy of neopaganism.
by Irving Hexham

"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
Grayson Carter

Film Forum: Wary About Harry
Is the big-screen Harry Potter as delightful as the one in the book? And should you be worried about his witchcraft? Critics and viewers respond.
Jeffery Overstreet

Did You Know?

The Strange Stigmata

The Saint from Assisi

A Christian Harry Potter?
Shadowmancer, Britain's hit fantasy novel, conjures darkness so the light will shine brighter.
Reviewed by Greg Taylor

What Would Buffy Do?
Is it possible to call for help ironically—and really mean it?
by Todd Hertz

"At No Time Conspicuous, as a Party, for Talent or Learning"
Newman and evangelicalism.
Grayson Carter

A Christian Harry Potter?
Shadowmancer, Britain's hit fantasy novel, conjures darkness so the light will shine brighter.
Reviewed by Greg Taylor

Are the Cubs Really Cursed?
"J.I. Packer discusses curses, the Cubs, and the billy goat"
Rob Moll

Books & Culture Corner: 'Must Be Superstition'
Rediscovering spiritual reality.
John Wilson

Weblog: Episcopal Priests Repent of Druidism
Plus: The shortest political honeymoon ever, Bush on America's religious divide, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Second-Best Kid Lit Ever
John Granger considers the Potter series the best thing since The Chronicles of Narnia.
Reviewed by Douglas LeBlanc

Weblog: Britain Starts Cloning
Plus: Who's going to New York, the next big movie controversy, the fundamentalist press, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen