April
2013
Volume 57, Number 3
![April April](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/22862.jpg?h=510&w=380)
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Cover Stories
Features
![Rick Warren's Final Frontier Rick Warren's Final Frontier](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13476.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Saddleback wants to bring the gospel to the world's 3,400 unengaged people groups. Why it just might work.
Interview by Timothy C. Morgan
![Did God Plan the Fall? Did God Plan the Fall?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/83585.jpg?h=123&w=220)
We don't know why God permitted the Fall, but we know all too well the evil and sin that still plague us.
Marguerite Shuster
![Knowing What the Bible ‘Really’ Means Knowing What the Bible ‘Really’ Means](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/83586.jpg?h=124&w=220)
Why multiple translations might even be better than Scripture in its original languages.
Jost Zetzsche
![The Hope Roaster The Hope Roaster](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13479.jpg?h=154&w=220)
How Pete Leonard's coffee roasting startup could become the world's largest employer of former convicts.
April Burbank
![Conversion Confusion Conversion Confusion](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13480.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Did a widow with seven children get 15 years in an Egyptian prison for becoming a Christian? Not so fast.
Jayson Casper in Cairo
Views
![A Pope for All Christians A Pope for All Christians](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13481.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Why believers of all stripes should care about the new head of the Catholic Church.
Timothy C. Morgan
Reviews
![How a Dutch Neo-Calvinist Helped Birth an Intellectual Movement How a Dutch Neo-Calvinist Helped Birth an Intellectual Movement](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13484.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Abraham Kuyper imagined a world fallen yet still infused with the grandeur of a God willing to redeem it.
Eric Miller
![My Top 5 Books on Singleness My Top 5 Books on Singleness](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13485.jpg?h=154&w=220)
In search of books that move beyond longing and provide a hopeful, trust-deepening perspective.
Anna Broadway
![Suffering Servants Suffering Servants](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13488.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Chronic pain and depression taught Joni Eareckson and Ken Tada to put each other's needs first.
Interview by Sarah Pulliam Bailey
News
![The Way We Give Now The Way We Give Now](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/10004.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Christian ministries received $9.8 billion in cash donations in 2011. But which ones received most?
Compiled by Ted Olsen
![Investigator or Prosecutor? No GRACE in Sexual Abuse Investigation of Missionary Kids Investigator or Prosecutor? No GRACE in Sexual Abuse Investigation of Missionary Kids](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/13469.jpg?h=154&w=220)
Reviewing decades-old abuse allegations isn't simple, as firing by Baptist missions agency shows.
Bobby Ross Jr.