Volume 53, Number 8

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Cover Stories

Amid our purity pledges and attempts to make chastity hip, we forgot to teach young Christians how to tie the knot.
Mark Regnerus
More from this Issue

Head of the US Communist Party wants to reach out to religious people, Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban burkas, and other quotes from the news.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Angel Food Ministries settles a lawsuit, Oral Roberts University reduces most of its debt, and other news in the Christian world.

The archbishop of the new Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) explains an alternative to the Episcopal Church.
George Conger

Six principles that might bring a truce to the age-old tension between tradition and popular culture.
Brad Harper and Paul Louis Metzger

Richard Nelson Bolles on discerning God's will when facing unemployment.
Interview by John R. Throop

The 'non-Catholic' Latin American church is going full steam ahead—but are we on the right track?
Milton Acosta

What I've learned as life has taken a turn for what most people think is the worst.
William J. Stuntz

Short Reviews of Jesus, The Middle Eastern Storyteller, Miss Betsey, and The Sleepy Little Alphabet.
John Wilson, editor of 'Books & Culture'

Nancy Guthrie, the author of Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow, offers a list of new and classic titles.
Nancy Guthrie