Volume 52, Number 3

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Hindu extremists exploit economic fears to launch attacks on Christians.
Vishal Arora, Compass Direct

Supreme Court mulls lethal injections as Christian support for the death penalty drops.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Comments on teaching evolution, comparing Episcopal dissidents to child abusers, and more.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

A professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Dilulio is the author of Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-Based Future.
Interview by Paul Hughes and Madison Trammel

Malaysia bans non-Muslim publications from using "Allah," Episcopal church takes disciplinary action against two conservative bishops, and April issue to be CCM magazine's last.

Tribal rivalries — including Christian-on-Christian violence — hamper healing.
Sheryl Henderson Blunt, with reporting by Sue Sprenkle in Nairobi, Kenya

Getting to the bottom of a cultural trend that has seeped into the church.
A Christianity Today Editorial

Walter Russell Mead argues that evangelicals have a crucial role to play in American foreign affairs.
Interview by Mark Galli

Working as a barista has tested me in ways that speeches, campaigns, and protests never did.
Amy Tracy

The Swiss retreat now tends less to philosophical skeptics than to disaffected evangelicals.
Molly Worthen

In What's So Great About Christianity, Dinesh D'Souza is skeptical of skepticism and enthusiastic about the faith.
Tony Snow

Short reviews of Soldier's Heart, Bill Bright and Campus Crusade for Christ, and Encounters of the Spirit.
John Wilson, editor of 'Books & Culture'