Volume 50, Number 9

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Virginia megachurch sues county for barring theology courses.
J. Edward Mendez, RNS, with reporting by Jason Bailey

The Pulitzer Prize winner says, "Evangelicals have influence in the White House that The New York Times columnists do not."
Interview by Collin Hansen

Why Christians should welcome, rather than stigmatize, unwed mothers and their children.
Amy Laura Hall

Bob Webber's fingerprints are all over a new call to live the narrative that really matters.
Interview by David Neff

Augustine's words after the 'barbarian' destruction of Rome have a remarkably contemporary ring.
Timothy George

In their zeal for social change, some evangelical activists stand on shaky biblical ground.
Paul Marshall

Fewer than 10 percent of the world's languages have the Old Testament. But that's about to change.
Jeremy Weber

Two centuries after Haystack, college students remain excited about missions—but with fundamentally different assumptions.
Jonathan Rice

Besides Jesus, what drove Jews and Christians apart from the beginning?
Chris Hall reviews Jaroslav Pelikan's 'Whose Bible Is It?'

N.T. Wright argues that Christianity better comprehends our deepest human longings.
Reviewed by James W. Sire

Robert Wuthnow examines why religion fails to change American society.
Douglas LeBlanc reviews 'American Mythos'

Kevin Phillips's new political screed is stranger than fiction—much stranger.
Reviewed by Collin Hansen

A top-notch scholar drops academic language for a basic retelling of Jesus'
Reviewed by Gary M. Burge