Weblog: Do the Wages of Sin Apply After Conversion?
Plus: Religious conservatives love Gonzalez as AG, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Catholic Bishops Embrace Ecumenical Group, Reject Bible Measure
Plus: The most inaccurate Christmas song ever, protecting kids from their evil, murderous parents, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by 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

Fill an Empty Cradle
Falling birthrates demand new priorities for families.
A Christianity Today editorial

Weblog: Senate Passes Fetal Homicide Bill
Plus: Former Archbishop of Canterbury criticizes Islam, The Passion of The Christ opens overseas, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Inside CT: Birth Stories
"Even God incarnate in Jesus Christ, born of Mary, has a birth story of sorts"
Timothy C. Morgan

Weblog: Catholic Bishops Embrace Ecumenical Group, Reject Bible Measure
Plus: The most inaccurate Christmas song ever, protecting kids from their evil, murderous parents, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Supreme Court Will Rule on Ten Commandments Displays
Plus: Catholic bishops challenge Kerry as evangelical theologians criticize Bush, 110 Iraqi Christians killed, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

A Crumbling Institution
How social revolutions cracked the pillars of marriage.
By David P. Gushee

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

"Seahorses, Egalitarians, and Traditional Sex-Role Reversal"
A dispatch from the Christians for Biblical Equality conference
Agnieszka Tennant

Weblog: Supreme Court Turns Down Boy Scouts Case
Plus: Concerned Women for America loses another leader, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Federal Marriage Amendment Reworded to Allow Civil Unions
Plus: Time profiles Rick Warren, Christian Coalition reportedly not paying its bills, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

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

Community and Conscience
Catholics and contraception.
Jenell Williams Paris

Bad Seed
Why did so many American churches embrace eugenics?
By Philip Jenkins

Weblog: Kerry Touts His Sleeveless Faith
Plus: Mugabe's demand for church support, Economist predicts a new golden age of giving, new claims about the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other stories from online sources around the world.

Bible Translation: TNIV Critics Blast Scripture 'Distortions'
But evangelical backers of new translation say gender changes are 'accurate.'
Timothy C. Morgan

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

Adam and Eve in the 21st Century
"When it comes to gender roles, CT readers oscillate between complementarian and egalitarian ideas."
Agnieszka Tennant

"Complicit Guilt, Explicit Healing"
Men involved in abortion are starting to find help
John W. Kennedy

Saved by sonogram
Ultrasounds help crisis pregnancy centers reduce abortion
Mark Stricherz

'Political Witch Hunt'
New York attorney general goes after crisis pregnancy centers.
Sheryl Henderson Blunt

Christian History Corner: One Nation Under Secularism
France's peculiar aversion to public religiosity is rooted in a sordid history of sectarian violence.
By Collin Hansen

The Groves of Academe-Salt, Light,and Affirmative Action
Robert B. Sloan Jr.

Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Terrorists on Trial
How the nation responded to an earlier attack
Preston Jones

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

Lewis the Letter-Writer
An unconscious autobiography in two volumes of correspondence.
By Michael Ward

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

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

Bad Seed
Why did so many American churches embrace eugenics?
By Philip Jenkins

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

The Rise & Fall of Anne Boleyn
She gambled and lost.
Brooke Allen

Ten Things You Should Know About the New Girls' Biblezine
Revolve is getting major media attention for the way it packages the Bible. What is the message this medium brings with it?
Agnieszka Tennant

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

Abortion: Virginia OKs Abortion Restriction
NARAL says 43 prolife measures were passed at the state level last year.
Religion News Service

Lessons in Persuasion from the Cause for Life
Clarke D. Forsythe

Southern Baptists Boot Gay Protesters
Messengers at St. Louis convention pick Prestonwood's Jack Graham as new leader
Eric Reed

Pastors Aim to Sink Battleships
Twenty clergy are arrested at protest over Britain's Trident submarines.
Cedric Pulford

Churches Have Not Worked to End Dowry Practice
India's women are seen as less valuable than men in a society that supports bride burnings and suicide.
Anto Akkara

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

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

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

Weblog: IRS Investigating 20 Churches, 40 Other Non-Profits for Illegal Campaigning
Plus: Terri Schiavo will be fed indefinitely, Buttiglione withdraws, and many other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Weblog: Southern Baptist Convention Won't Accept Missionaries with Female Pastors
Are Mormons really America's fastest growing church? And more stories from online sources around the world
Ted Olsen

Is Male-Only Ordination Illegal?
"Lawyer could not be a priest, so now she is suing"
Ted Olsen

Weblog: 12 Injured in Attack on Pakistan Bible Society
Plus: Buddhists burn another church in Sri Lanka, some conservative Christians are nonplussed by Bush's marriage initiative, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Who Cares About Care?
Jean Bethke Elshtain

Where Babies come from
Agnes Howard

Who Cares About Care?
Jean Bethke Elshtain

Weblog: Bush Signs Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
The court battle has already begun
Rob Moll

Roe vs. Judicial Sense
Forget briefly its immorality—it's just bad law
Stephen L. Carter