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

Disciples of Christ Board Apologizes For Not Doing More to Oppose Slavery
"Suing over the golden rule, and Jabez's territory continues to expand."
Ted Olsen

PEOPLE IN PRINT

Mary Heart, Martha Brain
How can I focus on one thing—prayer—when so many things need to be done?
Kathy Callahan-Howell

Managing a Meandering Mind

Hospitality Spelled Backwards
Is Martha Stewart in League With the Devil?
Amy Laura Hall

Ten Excuses

From the Editors
Marshall Shelley

DEALING WITH THE OVERDEPENDENT
How can you help chronically needy people without them draining all your time, money, and energy?
Craig Brian Larson

Campaigner Says Churches Ignore Child Abuse
President of ECPAT accuses clergy and church workers of perpetrating child abuse.
By Dave Crampton | posted 8/30/00

A Cry in the Nuclear Wilderness
Nearly everyone at the nuclear power plant wanted to cover up the hazards, but one engineer refused to go along.
By Adam Bowles

Mormons on the Rise
John W. Kennedy in Salt Lake City and Provo

Deciding Without Dividing

Do I Always Have to Be Sure?
Ben Patterson

What's Love Got to Do With It?

Australian Governor-General Feels Heat Over Handling of Abuse Case
Former Anglican archbishop Peter Hollingworth denies that he failed to offer support to victim's family.
Margaret Simons

Disciples of Christ Board Apologizes For Not Doing More to Oppose Slavery
"Suing over the golden rule, and Jabez's territory continues to expand."
Ted Olsen

Frederica Mathewes-Green: My Spice Girl Moment
by Frederica Mathewes-Green

The Spirits Are Angry
Liberia's secret cults in the service of civil war.
Shelly Dick and Wiebe Boer

How Can You Be Croatian?
Why national identities are worth preserving.
Miroslav Volf

Turkey Undemonized
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
Douglas A. Howard

Seven Sirens

The Last Taboo

TYPE B SPIRITUALITY
Steven D. Felker

CT Classic: Coffee That Cares
A Costa Rican church underwrites an urban outreach effort with premium coffee sales
Deann Alford

Baptist Megachurch Faces Sex Suit
Baptist Megachurch Faces Sex Suit
by Lee Elder

Molestation Damages Total $119 Million
Molestation Damages Total $119 Million

Burning Out, Rusting Out or Holding Out?
Ministers, like motors, needn't die of overactivity or inactivity. A little maintenance will keep them running for the long haul.
James D. Berkley

More Oxygen to the Flame

REFLECTIONS
Poisonous fruit

Losing My Appetite for Cynicism

GOING TO YOUR LEFT
Pastoral ministry demands more than playing to your strengths.
Kent Hughes

THE SLY SABOTEUR
How to arrest ministry's nemesis, Procrastination.
John Maxwell

THE EXHILERATION OF PROCRASTINATION
Karon Cook

Weblog: Free the Boykin Transcripts!
Plus: Joe Stowell resigns from Moody, and many other stories from online sources around the world.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Passages
Deaths, promotions, and other tidbits from the religion world.
By CT staff

CT Classic: Evangelical Scholars Remove Robert Gundry for His Views on Matthew
Did Matthew embellish his work with nonhistorical additions?
Leslie R. Keylock

Letters

The Back Page | Charles Colson: Slouching into Sloth
The XFL is but the latest sign of the coarsening of our culture
Charles Colson

Seven Sirens

From the Editor: The Hard-To-Like Knox

PASTORING STRONG-WILLED PEOPLE
How do you follow the Lamb when you're shepherding lions?
S. Robert Maddox

The Best Defense

Reflections: Quotations on Time and Eternity
Quotations on time and eternity.

Furthermore: The Fullness of Time
I'd like life to be a series of pauses like a poem, rather than a fast-paced, page-turner airport novel.
By Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Reflections