"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

The Reformation Question
What does Catholic mean?
By Mary Noll Venables

Editor's Bookshelf: 'We Live What We Believe'
Luke Timothy Johnson talks about the importance of the creed—even for non-creedal Christians
David Neff

Naval Chaplain Succeeds Ogilvie in Senate
An interview with Barry Black
Ken Walker

Three Wise Men from the East
The Cappadocian Fathers brought the best gift of all: a powerful scriptural defense of the Trinity and Christ's divinity against the Arian heretics.
Edwin Woodruff Tait and Chris Armstrong

Where Do We Go from Here?

Last Things
A history of the afterlife.
Scot McKnight

Believing History
An exchange featuring Bruce Kuklick, Mark Noll, and Richard Bushman

Weblog: What John Edwards Believes
John Kerry's Methodist running mate oversees his church's urban ministries, but can he win evangelicals' votes?
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Breaking 80
Golfers don't want to be better people. They want to be better golfers.
Mark Galli

God the Economist
John Polkinghorne's Trinitarian reality.
Catherine and Andy Crouch

A Theology of Sound
Attentive listening.
Craig Mattson

Evangelical Drift
Outsiders say we're the status quo. Our call is to prove them wrong.
Charles Colson with Anne Morse

Three Wise Men from the East
The Cappadocian Fathers brought the best gift of all: a powerful scriptural defense of the Trinity and Christ's divinity against the Arian heretics.
Edwin Woodruff Tait and Chris Armstrong

Tangling with Wolves
Why we still need heresy trials
Chris Armstrong

In This Together

Two Ways of Understanding 'Church'
Kevin Offner

Pastoring with Integrity in a Market-Driven Age

Why We Believe in the Virgin Birth
Pundits with pebbles wander far from the historic gospel.
Timothy George

BOOKS: Modern Wise Men Encounter Jesus. Part 2

Good Boundaries Make Good Christians
The difference between welcome and inclusion
Good Fences, reviewed by David Neff

Dispatch from Atlanta: What Fireworks?
Anxieties and attack turn to grace and truth as the Evangelical Theological Society votes on Open Theism proponents' membership
David Neff

Weblog: Powell Predicts Sudan Peace by the End of December
"Bush comments on Boykin, Gibson gets a Passion distributor, this year's Hell House, and other stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

The Groves of Academe
A Pietist with a Ph.D.: Remembering Stanley J. Grenz
Roger E. Olson

Reformed, Reforming
Michael S. Horton

Christian History Corner: Breaking Down the Faith/Learning Wall
How the history of Christians in higher education has stacked the deck against Robert Sloan's new Baylor.
Collin Hansen

You Have the Right to Be Rich
But you have to earn it.
Patton Dodd

"Weblog: Kenneth Hagin, 'Word of Faith' Preacher, Dies at 86"
The explicit Messiah
Ted Olsen

Means and Ends
The spiritual theology of Eugene Peterson.
Lauren F. Winner

Tell Me the Old, Old Story—and Make It New
Apologetics for our time.
Lauren F. Winner

Evangelicals & Catholics
The state of play
J. I. Packer

The Confidence Man
Meet Mark C. Taylor, the virtuoso of Nietzschean boosterism.
Eugene McCarraher

The Groves of Academe
A Pietist with a Ph.D.: Remembering Stanley J. Grenz
Roger E. Olson

Between Pacifism and Jihad
The just-war tradition reconsidered
J. Daryl Charles

The Ecstatic Heresy
Seeking a superficial unity, some denominational leaders opt for feelings over facts.
By Robert Sanders

Divine Theater
God's weightiness in worship.
by Sue A. Rozeboom

The Beauty of Borrowing
Contemporary artists in dialogue with the past
Joel C. Sheesley

Theology on the Edge
When competing ideologies had fragmented Christian thought, Thomas forged a solution.
J. David Lawrence

The Reformation Connection
Hus shared ideas with Wyclif and Luther, yet they were not all of one mind.
Timothy George

Good Question: Take, Eat—But How Often?
Many churches observe the Eucharist a few times a year, but the early churches seemed to observe it weekly—possibly daily. What is most appropriate?—Wendell J. Biermann, Fayetteville, New York
By Craig S. Keener

Unfashionably Good
A savory collections of essays by Alan Jacobs.
Reviewed by Lauren F. Winner

Canterbury Crackup
Eschewing church discipline has come back to haunt Anglicans.
A Christianity Today editorial

Good Boundaries Make Good Christians
The difference between welcome and inclusion
Good Fences, reviewed by David Neff

Weblog: The Virgin Birth? Come on!
Millard Fuller steps down as Habitat CEO after sexual harassment allegation, worries the movement will lose focus. Also, an adult stem-cell media conspiracy?
Compiled by Rob Moll

Joseph's Sword
His faithfulness speaks louder than the few words devoted to him.
Kathy Berklund-Page

The Blessed Evangelical Mary
Why we shouldn't ignore her any longer
Timothy George

Quotation marks
"Comments on Christian conversion, praying, and Britney Spears."
Ted Olsen

The Gospel Statement Revisited
an interview with Timothy George

Demanding Faith
The Scots Confession is not for the faint of heart.
Ian Hazlett is senior lecturer in ecclesiastical history at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.