Cover Story
Features
Love Where You Live
Urban, suburban, and rural churches respond to new challenges in a less mobile era.
Churches Adopt Adoption
Churches are getting real about adoption’s challenges—and helping families after the child arrives.
Evangelism vs. Missions?
Southern Baptists contemplate unleashing the IMB at home.
More from this Issue
Class Action
Nicole Baker Fulgham champions educational equity with Teach for America.
Adoption Is Everywhere
Even God is into it.
News
News
Nepal’s Religious Identity Debated, Alcohol and Church Coexist under New Law, and Other News
Important developments in the church and the world.
News
A Hand Up: Aid for Trade in Mozambique
Faith-based model teaches rural poor how to use trade to rise out of poverty.
News
Should Churches Increase 2011 Budgets?
Financial advisers, researchers, and other observers weigh in on whether churches should increase their operating budgets next year.
Reforming Health Care Reform
How states are blocking abortion coverage.
News
‘Freedom of Worship’ Worries
New religious freedom rhetoric within the Obama administration draws concern.
Reviews
Christian Zionism in the Dock
Two documentaries take on the controversial theology.
Review
Real Presence
What can happen when a thoroughly secular woman eats a piece of bread. A review of ‘Jesus Freak.’
Vainly Naming the Name
Cussing isn’t our only problem—though that’s bad enough.
Books to Note
Short reviews of recent books worth considering.
Wilson’s Bookmarks
‘Pearl Buck in China,’ ‘The Flight of the Intellectuals,’ and ‘Here Comes the Garbage Barge.’
Focus on the Females
James Dobson explains his ideas for raising daughters, and life after Focus.
Review
Screwtape for New Atheists
‘The Loser Letters’ pokes serious fun at a mostly humorless movement.
My Top 5 Books on Orphan Care
Picks from Jedd Medefind, president, the Christian Alliance for Orphans.
The Authentic Bonhoeffer
Eric Metaxas explains how the German theologian lived a life worth examining.
Views
Frozen Embryos: Biotech’s Hidden Dilemma
What should be done with frozen embryos left at fertility clinics?
Stride Toward Peace: The Mideast’s Nonviolent Moment
Risking love in a land of violence.