Weblog (Second Helping): Revenge of the God Billboards
Plus: Britain discusses euthanasia while the Netherlands euthanizes babies, and other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

When Backward Is Forward
Christmas may be the best argument against genetic enhancement.
by Andy Crouch

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

From Homer to Hip-Hop
The Jesuit scholar Walter Ong studied the evolution of human consciousness via the history of communication.
by Jeet Heer

When Does Personhood Begin?
And what difference does it make?
By Bob Smietana

The Punk Rocker with a Ph.D.
Greg Graffin, frontman of Bad Religion, has a freshly minted doctorate in evolutionary biology and a new album coming soon.
by Preston Jones

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

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

Dances with Medicine Men
Intimidating doctors, aging and confused parents, and the loss of personhood.
By Virginia Stem Owens

The Techno Sapiens Are Coming
When God fashioned man and woman, he called his creation very good. Transhumanists say that, by manipulating our bodies with microscopic tools, we can do better. Are we ready for the great debate?
By C. Christopher Hook

Inside CT: Nearly Perfect
"Longtime Christianity Today editor Carol Thiessen was firm but not fierce, steadfast but not stodgy"
David Neff

A Surgeon's View of Divine Healing
Do doctors waste their time by doing slowly and painstakingly what could have been done in the twinkling of an eye?
Paul Brand with Philip Yancey

"Blood, Part 1: The Miracle of Cleansing"
"This article, originally appearing in the February 18, 1983, issue of Christianity Today,The article is adapted from the book In His Image."
cancer;death;faith;faithhealers;healing;medicine;pain;suffering

Weblog: Separation of Church and Store
Plus: Bulldozing a church, murdering an atheist, Britain's designer babies, and apparently today is Election Day.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

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

Reclaiming Occupied Territory
The Great Commission and the cultural commission are not in competition.
By Charles Colson with Anne Morse

Books & Culture's Books of the Week: From Dust to Dust
Soil and the future of creation
Ragan Sutterfield

Why Aren't Conservatives Conservationists?
Jeremy Beer

The Nature of Scripture
Chris Friesen

For Everything There Is a Season
Nostalgia for nature's seasons in a climate-controlled world.
by Cindy Crosby

Back to the Garden
Our task is neither to shield nature from humanity nor to tame all wilderness.
A Christianity Today editorial

Environment as Creation
Conquest vs. care for the wilderness.
by Walter Brueggemann

Hard to Swallow
Charles Strohmer

The Ethics of Other Worlds
Peter L. Edman

No Vein Inquiry
William Harvey founded modern physiology by seeking God's purposes for the body's design.
Emerson T. McMullen

Life History
Catherine H. Crouch

The Dick Staub Interview: The Long War About Science
"Larry Witham, the author of Where Darwin Meets the Bible and By Design, talks about faith, science, and how the battle has evolved."

Ohio Has Designs on Science Standards
State may be the first to add intelligent design to education mandates.
Todd Hertz

"Cloning: President's Council on Bioethics recommends a partial ban, disappointing some conservatives"
President's Council on Bioethics recommends a four-year moratorium on research cloning
Stan Guthrie

Defender of Dignity
"Leon Kass, head of the President's Council on Bioethics, hopes to thwart the business-biomedical agenda"
Nigel M. de S. Cameron

Beyond the Impasse to What?
Stem-cell research may not need human embryos after all. But why are we researching in the first place?
By C. Ben Mitchell | posted 8/18/00

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

Worldview Boot Camp
Evangelical young people need training in the truth about truth.
By Charles Colson with Anne Morse

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

Interior Design
16th-century students of anatomy saw the hand of God in the intricacies of the body.
James D. Smith III

The Christian Face of the Scientific Revolution: Christian History Timeline - Milestones to Modern Science