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

Palestinian Bible Society bookshop threatened, closed; church political activities investigated; Wal-Mart carries the pill.
CT staff

Ministries pay executives less than their secular nonprofit counterparts. Should they?
Michael Barrick

Ethnic bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region remains the top crisis for U.N. ambassador John Bolton.
Interview by Tony Carnes

If these missionaries have their way, millions of Taiwanese will no longer be too embarrassed or intimidated to go to church.
Jennifer Su

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

Rod Dreher says that conservative man cannot live by the free market alone.
Interview by Stan Guthrie

A new biography shows behind the successful missionary were three matchless women.
Reviewed by Sarah Johnson

Neither nature nor experience are sufficient to interpret reality, writes Roger Lundin.
Reviewed by Mark Noll

An evolutionary philosopher's case against religion overpromises, underdelivers.
Reviewed by John Wilson

Douglas Sweeney appeals to evangelicals of all stripes to sustain the movement's momentum.
Reviewed by Collin Hansen