Loving Military Enemies
War does not exempt Christians from the second-greatest commandment.
By Stephen L. Carter

Hopeful Pessimism
The lessons of the civil rights movement turn out to be quite alien to liberal pieties.
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

The Mahatma
Gandhi unvarnished.
By Jean Bethke Elshtain

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

Whose Natural Theology?
Alan Jacobs

Reflections: Work and Vocation
"Quotations to stir heart and mind from Thomas Merton, Dorothy Sayers, and others"
Richard A. Kauffman

Letter from London
Susan Wise Bauer

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

Film Forum: Secondhand Lions Roars
"Religious press film critics applaud Secondhand Lions and Bonhoeffer, but criticize Underworld, Cold Creek Manor, and Anything Else. Plus, more on Thirteen, Lost in Translation, The Lion King, and The Fighting Temptations"
Jeffrey Overstreet

The Reformation Question
What does Catholic mean?
By Mary Noll Venables

David Martin: Sociologist as Servant of the Church
A faithful witness at the intersection of sociology and theology.
By John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

Why the Reformers Read the Fathers

Acrobat Theologian

Did You Know?

From the Editor: Ordinary Hero

The Search for Redemption
Confession without remorse.
By Bruce Kuklick

Evasive Maneuvers
Can Protestant historians play by the rules of the secular academy without giving the game away?
by Bruce Kuklick

Weblog: Oh Who Are the Evangelicals in Your Neighborhood?
U.S. News examines the movement and its founder Jonathan Edwards. Plus: Salon.com on Lewis and Tolkien.
Ted Olsen

Inside CT: Criswell's 15 Minutes
Behind Timothy George's remembrance of W.A. Criswell.
David Neff

Whose Natural Theology?
Alan Jacobs

What Would Pope Stanley Say?
A conversation with Stanley Hauerwas.
Interview by Rodney Clapp

Inside CT: The Editor Who Helped Save Christianity Today
Remembering Ken Kantzer
David Neff

"Theologian, CT Editor Dies at 85"
Todd Hertz

Inside CT: The Editor Who Helped Save Christianity Today
Remembering Ken Kantzer
David Neff

The Radical Kirk
The Church of Scotland has a long history of intense reforms.
Elesha Coffman

The Delight of a Woman's Company

The Christian History Interview: Prophet Without Honor?

The Reformation Question
What does Catholic mean?
By Mary Noll Venables

Hopeful Pessimism
The lessons of the civil rights movement turn out to be quite alien to liberal pieties.
by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Man of Contradictions
Martin Luther was a God-obsessed seeker of certainty and assurance.
Reviewed by Cindy Crosby

How We Christians Worship

The Gallery: Wordsmiths of Worship

Where Did Christians Worship?

Did You Know?
Interesting and unusual facts about the church's first Bible interpreters

From The Editor: The Founding Fathers We Never Knew
Chris Armstrong

The Habits of Highly Effective Bible Readers
What we can learn from the church fathers that will enrich our own Bible study.
A conversation with Christopher A. Hall

Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley and 300-A Plentiful Harvest
Douglas Sweeney

Are the Cubs Really Cursed?
"J.I. Packer discusses curses, the Cubs, and the billy goat"
Rob Moll

One-and-One-Half Cheers for the Anglican Primates' Statement
An interview with theologian—and longtime Anglican—J.I. Packer
Mark Galli

Books & Culture's Book of the Week: Divine Numbers
Can you say Christian and mathematics in the same sentence?
Karl-Dieter Crisman

Creation's Symmetries, God's Mystery
Blaise Pascal pioneered in math and physics but drew faith from revelation alone.
George Murphy

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

Conservative Like a Fox
al Thomas hates the liberalism, but tries to love the liberal.
By Tony Carnes

The Dick Staub Interview: John Eldredge Is Wild at Heart
The author of Wild at Heart and The Sacred Romance discusses rediscovering the Gospel through a ransomed heart.

Aching for Something Deep
"For those with ears to hear, Mark Heard left the gift of a more authentic faith"
Eric Miller

Weblog: Catastrophe at Orthodox Church Camp
"Dean to promote his religion, Stott suffers mild stroke, and the Grand Canyon controversy returns"
Ted Olsen

Why Don't They Listen?
John Stott on the most pernicious obstacles to effective world evangelism
Gary Barnes

CT Classic: Basic Stott
"In this cover story from 1996, evangelicalism's premier teacher speaks on gender, charismatics, leaving the Church of England, the poor, evangelical fragmentation, Catholics, the future, and other subjects"
Roy McCloughry

The Groves of Academe
A Pietist with a Ph.D.: Remembering Stanley J. Grenz
Roger E. Olson

Honoring Seraphim and Men
Jon Kennedy

Ending the Cold War Between Theologians and Laypeople
Why Christian scholars don't trust laypeople, and what can be done to make the relationship better

The Confidence Man
Meet Mark C. Taylor, the virtuoso of Nietzschean boosterism.
Eugene McCarraher

The Groves of Academe
A Pietist with a Ph.D.: Remembering Stanley J. Grenz
Roger E. Olson

Between Pacifism and Jihad
The just-war tradition reconsidered
J. Daryl Charles

Restore All Things in Thomas?
American Catholic intellectuals in the Progressive era.
by Eugene McCarraher

Whose Natural Theology?
Alan Jacobs

The Truth About the Catholic Church and Slavery
The problem wasn't that the leadership was silent. It was that almost nobody listened.
Rodney Stark

Intoxicated with Tomatoes
by John Wilson

Miroslav Volf: Speaking truth to the world.

Welcoming the War Criminal

Human Rights Groups Criticize Beijing as Choice for 2008 Olympics
"The challenge now is to use the games to press for improvements, advocates said."
Newsroom News Service

The Christian History Timeline: The Wesleys
The Christian History Timeline

The History Behind Christian History
The experts said a church-history magazine would never work. On our 10th anniversary, we look back with founder Ken Curtis.