PTL Victims to Receive $6.54 Each
Lawyers take $2.5 million of $3.7 million settlement
"Religion News Service, CT Staff"

The CT Review: Semi-Amazing Grace
Jay Bakker (yes, Jim and Tammy Faye's son) describes his continuing recovery from church-inflicted wounds.
Douglas LeBlanc

Review: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
"She has unintentionally become an ambassador of God's grace to a community that has received too few envoys from evangelicalism."
By Steve Rabey

New Top Anglican Receives Mixed Reviews
"Appointee is against abortion, for gay ordination, and not from the Third World"
Stan Guthrie

Answering Critics of An Evangelical Celebration
Thomas C. Oden

Updates
'Born Alive' Bill Fails in Senate

Influential Things Come in Small Packages
"Three friends, four spiritual laws, and other legacies of Bill Bright"
"Josh McDowell, Dave Hannah, and Rick Warren"

"When Burkett Speaks, Evangelicals Listen"
How this former unbelieving electrical engineer became evangelicalism's financial answer man—and a look at the advice he gives.
Larry Eskridge

Weblog: Campus Crusade for Christ Founder Bill Bright Dies at 81
Former happy pagan went on to form one of the largest and most efficient parachurch ministries in the world.
Ted Olsen

Outreach to Despair
Christians minister to the hopeless in Gaza.
By Deann Alford

Influential Things Come in Small Packages
"Three friends, four spiritual laws, and other legacies of Bill Bright"
"Josh McDowell, Dave Hannah, and Rick Warren"

Weblog: Campus Crusade for Christ Founder Bill Bright Dies at 81
Former happy pagan went on to form one of the largest and most efficient parachurch ministries in the world.
Ted Olsen

Cruz Launches Anti-Gang Campaign
Cruz Launches Anti-Gang Campaign
by Rusty Wright in Washington, D.C.

Christian History Corner: Testify!
A glimpse inside the world of holiness testimony, through the story of an ex-slave woman evangelist.
By Chris Armstrong

"Weblog: Reinhard Bonnke, Benny Hinn, and Others Reportedly Bilked of $160M+ in Ponzi Scheme"
"Christ for All Nations board member, four others arrested"
Ted Olsen

Weblog: Campus Crusade for Christ Founder Bill Bright Dies at 81
Former happy pagan went on to form one of the largest and most efficient parachurch ministries in the world.
Ted Olsen

"Christian History Corner: Muscular Christianity's Prodigal Son, College Sports"
"In the wake of a basketball scandal at a prominent Christian university, we take time to remember the Christian roots of college athletics"
Chris Armstrong

CT Classic: Admen for Heaven
"Opening up minds is the first step to regular church attendance, Episcopal Ad Project says"
David Neff

Willow Creek Fishes In a Crowded Stream
"A pastor changes his story about his daughter's affair, and a Lewis clarification."
Ted Olsen

Weblog: A Third Way with Stem Cells
Plus: Creation vs. evolution, William Tyndale College closes, 10 questions with Billy Graham, World Vision pulls out of Iraq, Christians protest Kinsey film, and more articles from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Rob Moll

Weblog: Roy Moore Makes His Case to the U.S. Senate
Plus: Wheaton College's Billy Graham Center catches fire, archbishops bet on NBA finals, Ala. school board retracts conservative Christian mandate, U.S. considers more debt relief, and other stories from online news sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

The Barbarians Have Come
Reinhold Niebuhr's daughter examines her fellow Christians and finds most of them wanting.
by Paul C. Merkley

Iraq's Good Samaritans
"This past summer, pundits predicted that Iraqis would resent Franklin Graham's ministry. What really happened when the workers showed up?"
Kevin Begos

Weblog: Was Evangelical Summit About Islam—Or About Franklin Graham?
Christian books cause stir in Israel and Pakistan, U.S. House set to debate faith-based hiring freedoms, and many other stories from online sources around the world
Ted Olsen

Weblog: Muslims Protest Franklin Graham's Pentagon Invite
"Evanescence pulled from Christian retail, and other online stories from around the world"
Todd Hertz

"Weblog: Prayer, Pain, and Prophecies Follow Attacks"
Mainstream and Christian media note the religious fallout of yesterday's horrific events
Ted Olsen

News Briefs

"Weblog: Reinhard Bonnke, Benny Hinn, and Others Reportedly Bilked of $160M+ in Ponzi Scheme"
"Christ for All Nations board member, four others arrested"
Ted Olsen

"One Lord, One Faith, Many Ethnicities"
How to become a diverse organization and keep your sanity
CT Forum

Weblog: Federal Judge Says City Shouldn't Have Banned 'Jesus Is Alive' Sign
"Stolen Jesuses, changes at Bibleman HQ, and many more religion stories from online sources around the world"
Ted Olsen

The Dick Staub Interview: Pursuing God and Community
A self-described nerd says pursuing God and community is possible through commitment

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

News Wraps
"Deaths, promotions, and other tidbits from the religion world."

Life after 'Mac'
"Promise Keepers names new leader, looks ahead"
Stan Guthrie

Beach blanket rebirth
Luis Palau to take Fort Lauderdale spring break festival nationwide
Todd Hertz

Answering Critics of An Evangelical Celebration
Thomas C. Oden

Evangelism: Downtown Evangelism Makes a Comeback
Luis Palau tweaks crusade model into evangelistic festivals.
Rusty Wright

Swaggart Employee Arrested
'Trusted employee' changed with money laundering, bank fraud, obstruction of justice, and theft.

Letters: One Who Has Fallen

Still Wrestling with the Devil
A visit with Jimmy Swaggart ten years after his fall.
Randall Balmer

The Dick Staub Interview: Ken Gire's Lord of the Dance
Patch Adams and T.S. Eliot teach us to twirl with Jesus, says the author

Weblog: The Prolife Push
Young Life under fire in Burbank
Ted Olsen

CT Classic: A Christian 'Heavy-Metal' Band Makes Its Mark on the Secular Music Industry
Lyrics and onstage behavior distances Stryper from counterparts.
Steve Rabey

Weblog: Lack of Holy Land Travel, Economic Woes Lead to Political Upheaval
Pedophilia said to be an incurable disease, the deaths of Dr. Torrey and Evelyn Johnson, and more online stories from around the world.
Todd Hertz

Weblog: Call Them Hostages
"Shelter Now aid workers reportedly survive first attack, but young American Heather Mercer isn't doing well."
Ted Olsen

LETTERS: The Population Problem