Sudden death gives way to anticipated mortality. A review of Last Rights.

Luci Shaw's tribute to L'Engle, a writer and friend.

Medieval and modern join forces in the Saint John's Bible.

This novel with a fierce intelligence should resurrect him.

What was going on with Mother Teresa?

The Amish response to the Nickel Mines shootings wasn't just plain Christianity.

How competition to publish celebrity Christians crowds out theology.

Two psychologists show that homosexuals should not be discouraged from seeking change.

The foolish things of Madeleine L'Engle.

"It seemed ironic and unfair that just as I was turning closer to God, I couldn't sell anything I wrote."

Plus: Fearing secularization and "fundamentalization" and whether "Christian economics" exist.

God really does judge the nations, new book argues.

Short reviews of First Look, Then Start Talking, What Jesus Demands from the World, and If Jesus Were Mayor.

Not so fast, says Philip Jenkins in God's Continent.

The Harry Potter craze suggests we're not telling the Christian story right.