Volume 51, Number 2

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Churches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo rejoice over first free elections in 46 years.
Isaac Phiri

Study: Religious people give more than secular, even to nonreligious charities.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Local Church's petition denied, apology to Anabaptists, reward for AIDS work, and bankrupt tithing.
CT staff

Key elements of the most controversial and misunderstood movement in the church today.
Scot McKnight

A young organization models what it might mean to be the church in a suffering world.
Christopher L. Heuertz

"Is hell nothing more than eternal torture of the unsaved? Why would God engage in punishment that seems so cruel?" -- Tony De Luca, New York, New York
R. Todd Mangum

Ben Witherington offers a potpourri of thoughts about early Christian belief.
Review by Gary M. Burge

Saints Behaving Badly tells about what went on before saints' conversions.
Review by Douglas A. Sweeney