Volume 50, Number 5
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High-profile apostasy case highlights legal contradictions.
Barbara G. Baker, Compass Direct, with additional news-service reporting
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Palestinian Bible Society bookshop threatened, closed; church political activities investigated; Wal-Mart carries the pill.
CT staff
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Ministries pay executives less than their secular nonprofit counterparts. Should they?
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Ethnic bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region remains the top crisis for U.N. ambassador John Bolton.
Interview by Tony Carnes
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If these missionaries have their way, millions of Taiwanese will no longer be too embarrassed or intimidated to go to church.
Jennifer Su
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Is religious art, like Michelangelo's 'Creation of Adam,' a violation of the second commandment when God is portrayed?—Steve Potts, Jackson, Mississippi
Answered by Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
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Rod Dreher says that conservative man cannot live by the free market alone.
Interview by Stan Guthrie
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A new biography shows behind the successful missionary were three matchless women.
Reviewed by Sarah Johnson
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Neither nature nor experience are sufficient to interpret reality, writes Roger Lundin.
Reviewed by Mark Noll
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An evolutionary philosopher's case against religion overpromises, underdelivers.
Reviewed by John Wilson
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Douglas Sweeney appeals to evangelicals of all stripes to sustain the movement's momentum.
Reviewed by Collin Hansen