What God Hath Not Joined
Why marriage was designed for male and female.
Edith M. Humphrey

When Marriage Brings Suffering
The meaning of marital covenants in bleak seasons.
By David P. Gushee

Counseling the Seductive Female
Andre Bustanoby

How to Reach the Premarital Couple
Doug Scott

Sloppy Inclusiveness
An interview with Caroline Westerhoff, author of Good Fences: The Boundaries of Hospitality.
By David Neff

Word Become Flesh
Quotations to Stir Heart and Mind
Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman

Q & A: Bobby Welch
President of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), on his five-week national bus tour, which ended October 7, to jump-start evangelism in the 16.3-million-member denomination. The SBC has experienced a four-year decline in baptisms.
Interview by Stan Guthrie

Is Christianity Oppressive to Women?
Sometimes our Christian heritage must be overcome, not celebrated.
By Linda Hartz Rump

Lonesome Blues
The consolations of frontier religion
Barry Hankins

Good & Evil in Middle-earth
The characters are mythic, but the epic sweeps across a Christian moral landscape.
Ralph C. Wood

The Soul of Sex
Do we need Christian sex manuals?
Bethany Torode

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

The Man Behind the Marriage Amendment
It's just as well that Matt Daniels loves a good fight, because he has a big one on his hands.
By Sheryl Henderson Blunt

A Horseless Carriage?
Letter Regarding Issue 8.2
Rachel Schuchardt

When Marriage Brings Suffering
The meaning of marital covenants in bleak seasons.
By David P. Gushee

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

Forgetting God
Why decadence drives out discipline.
By Philip Yancey

Power: Preaching for Total Commitment
Bill Hybels

Anglican Priest Hopes to Boldly Go Where No Clergyman Has Gone Before
Ken Clapham wants to be the international space station's chaplain.
Cedric Pulford

'Ragamuffin' Author Brennan Manning Dies
The patched-up life and unshabby message of Brennan Manning.
Agnieszka Tennant

Coping with Christmas
For adult children of divorced parents, the holidays aren't as happy as they are supposed to be. Author Jen Abbas has some advice.
By Ann Byle

Pick Your Shibboleths Wisely
Do we really want to be known as the generation who gave marriage over to the government?
By Daniel A. Crane

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

Ultra Mega Weblog: Five Churches Attacked in Netherlands
Plus: Links to more than 422 (really!) other news articles and opinion pieces, including some not about how stupid evangelicals are.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Is Tony Blair Converting to Catholicism?
Plus: Decoding religion-speak at the presidential debate, waiting for the shoe to drop on Anglicanism's future, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

The End of Traditional Marriage?
Religious activists say Massachusetts decision is monumental—and may be cause for revolt
Ted Olsen

"Presbyterians: Presbyterians Reaffirm Fidelity, Chastity Rule"
Conservatives gain last needed vote to defeat Amendment A.
Religion News Services

Homosexuality: Presbyterians Hold Firm on Fidelity
Homosexual ordination under study until 2001.
By Jim Jones in Fort Worth.

Affectionate Patriarchs
In the popular imagination, conservative evangelical fathers are power-abusing authoritarians. A new study says otherwise.
An interview with W. Bradford Wilcox

Nuptial Agreements
Two models of marriage claim biblical warrant and vie for evangelicals' allegiance. Advocates of both claim good results. But do we have to choose?
Agnieszka Tennant

SIDEBAR: A Partnership of Equals

Soft Patriarchs
A conversation with Brad Wilcox.
Interview by Michael Cromartie

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

Nuptial Agreements
Two models of marriage claim biblical warrant and vie for evangelicals' allegiance. Advocates of both claim good results. But do we have to choose?
Agnieszka Tennant

Former Episcopal Bishop Challenges Decision to Defrock Him
"Ci Jones says disciplinary case was double jeopardy, and that head of Episcopal Church improperly influenced case"
Chris Herlinger

Five Things Clinton Taught Us
However future historians judge him, the President—inadvertently—left the church a significant legacy.
Gabriel Fackre

Jesse Jackson: I am Father to a Daughter who Was Born Outside of my Marriage.
The Graham Staines murder claims another life, and other stories from media outlets around the world
Ted Olsen

First Language
Eugene Peterson

The Soul of Sex
Do we need Christian sex manuals?
Bethany Torode

Sex Ed. For Adults
God-given longings in a broken world.
By Jenell Williams Paris

The Unbusy Pastor
Eugene Peterson

The Top Ten Books of 2004
And a warning about the risks of reading.
By John Wilson

Discerning Divine Speech
The God Who Speaks teaches readers to listen.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

Creating a Climate for Lasting Marriages
Ken Wilson

The Aagards: Hunger and Thirst

Here Come the Brides--Again

Is Growth a Decision?
Eugene Peterson

The Soul of Sex
Do we need Christian sex manuals?
Bethany Torode

What the Rules Don’t Cover
Jared Mackey

Affectionate Patriarchs
In the popular imagination, conservative evangelical fathers are power-abusing authoritarians. A new study says otherwise.
An interview with W. Bradford Wilcox

Wildheart
John Eldredge thinks too many Christians are weak, and churches are often insipid-and he's not going to take it anymore
By Douglas LeBlanc

"Counseling Men, Counseling Women"
Jim Smith

The Truth About Sex
Even Christians get seduced by the sexual lies our culture proclaims
Jenell Williams Paris

A Marriage Counterculture
An update on the state of unions in America.
By David Seamands

Sex Marriage and Divorce
Results from a 1992 Christianity Today reader's survey.
By Haddon Robinson

Briefs: North America

A Marriage Counterculture
An update on the state of unions in America.
By David Seamands

Sex Marriage and Divorce
Results from a 1992 Christianity Today reader's survey.
By Haddon Robinson

A Problematic Mission?
Would the Spanish friars of California's historic missions have lobbied for the separation of church and state?
By Steven Gertz

Faith, Fear, War, Peace
Snapshots of the grim and 'happy' ministry of today's military chaplains.
By Deann Alford

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

Is Growth a Decision?
Eugene Peterson

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

Is Christianity Oppressive to Women?
Sometimes our Christian heritage must be overcome, not celebrated.
By Linda Hartz Rump

Roads to Recovery
Following God On Broken Legs
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

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 Virtue of Vulnerability
It can be hard to trust, but failing to is worse.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

Classic & Contemporary Excerpts

CONTENDING FOR THE TRUTH...IN CHURCH PUBLICITY
When you tell others about your church, is honesty the best policy?
Wayne Kiser

Here Come the Brides--Again

Living by Vows
As his wife suffered with Alzheimer's, Robertson McQuilkin said, If I took care of her for 40 years, I would never be out of her debt.
Robertson McQuilkin

The Marriage Mystery
Steve Tracy

Dropping the Mask
When I blow it, I let my church know it. And they respect me for it.
Dave Stone

Reaching the "Happy-Thinking Pagan"
Ravi Zacharias

Can I Let On That I'm Down?

Lovingly Leveling with Live-ins
Gregory D. Stover

The Rehearsal and Ceremony
R. Kent Hughes

Premarital Pastoring
Bruce Rowlison

Death of a Spouse Quickscan

Widow of September 11 Hero Starts Foundation
Todd M. Beamer fund established to care for children who lost parents on United Flight 93
LaTonya Taylor

Nigeria: Orphaned and Widowed
Christian families devastated since Shari'ah law adopted
Obed Minchakpu

Theology of the Body
Pope John Paul II on the biblical foundations of marriage and sexuality.
By Laura Merzig Fabrycky

Soft Patriarchs
A conversation with Brad Wilcox.
Interview by Michael Cromartie

The Ministry of Marriage

The Opposite of Free Love
Dispatches from the World of Human Trafficking
Jennifer Goodson

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