Volume 53, Number 5

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Comments on generic evangelicals, Habitat's demolition crews, and other topics from recent news.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

The president and CEO of Open Doors USA updated CT on North Korea, which the group ranks as the world's worst persecutor of Christians.
Interview by Timothy C. Morgan

Todd Bentley marries former intern, Oral Roberts University and Joyce Meyer Ministries become accredited, and other recent news.

President Obama's tax plan will hurt the very people he's trying to help.
A Christianity Today Editorial

Why Tullian Tchividjian, the grandson of the Most Admired Man in America, thinks Christians need to become unfashionable.
Collin Hansen

A new survey suggests that seekers are not looking for user-friendly, mall-like buildings.
Nathan Bierma

When a landmark study suggests that intercessory prayer may actually hurt patients instead of help them, you have to wonder.
Gregory Fung and Christopher Fung

At 26, Joshua DuBois has already been a pastor and a congressional fellow, and is now the President's faith-based point man.
Sarah Pulliam

When science is made 'apolitical' and 'unencumbered by religion,' it's usually to hyper-politicize and hyper-sacralize it.
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway