Watch and wait
Election night could provide a quick White House winner, or a flood of mail-in ballots and social division could delay results for weeks
The Da Vinci phenomenon
On the way from bestseller to blockbuster, Da Vinci Code producers launch a schizophrenic marketing plan to win a religious following without a religious backlash
Onward Gnostic soldier
Fans and critics have written thousands of pages about The Da Vinci Code, but scholar Peter Jones explores its roots in ancient Gnosticism
Credit worthy
School choice advances under the banner of tax credits
Bullied pulpits
Mega-growth in the number of megachurches is sparking a backlash in communities throughout the country
Voices
Mailbag
Uncertain science In framing the global warming issue ("Meltdown," April 22), Mr. Bergin correctly emphasized the uncertainty associated with assigning a single temperature to the world, an...
Joel Belz
E-mail zeal
This is the account of a news item that moved last week, in a most unexpected manner, from WORLD's list of "not-quite-ready" stories to the "must-tell" category. What prompted us to hold ba...
To protect and conserve
One controversy roiling the evangelical world is to what extent Bible-believing Christians should be environmentalists. Recently, a group of prominent evangelical leaders, including mega-pastor Ri...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Cisterns in a foreign land
Secular psychology is the unpaid debt of the church. Always getting it almost right; plausibly true; a set of straight sixes just missing a perfect seven. Counterfeits. What's a nice Christ...
Marvin Olasky
Capital shakeup
Last month San Francisco residents commemorated the centennial of one of the biggest disasters in American history, the 1906 earthquake. The centennial of another disaster is coming up next year, ...
Notebook
Sports
Ascending to the crown?
Smarty Jones couldn't do it. Neither could Funny Cide. Or War Emblem. Or Charismatic, Real Quiet, or Silver Charm. But fresh off a Kentucky Derby win on May 6, champion thoroughbred trainer Michae...
Medicine
Flight of fancy
How far will a television network go to challenge the top-rated show in America during a sweeps period? On May 9, ABC attempted to draw viewers away from American Idol on Fox with a TV movie that ...
Religion
Political choice
Many major news organizations were caught napping in the run-up to this month's election of a bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of California. For months, news stories made much of the fact that th...
Culture
Movies & TV
Haunted house
An American Haunting features what may be the only 360-degree horse-drawn carriage aerial flip you'll ever see on film. This ludicrous stunt is the only original or surprising element in an otherw...
Notable Books
Notable books
The release of the movie version of the bestselling The Da Vinci Code will expose more people to Dan Brown's tale of conspiracy and intrigue. At the heart of the novel is an indictment of the earl...
Movies & TV
Mission Impossible III
Mission Impossible III is rated PG-13 for "intense sequences of frenetic violence and menace." That is pretty much all there is to this movie. It has all the meaning of a roller coaster at a theme...
Movies & TV
Children know best
You want to love everything that comes from Walden Media. The company has an admirable mission-adapting classic children's literature and inspiring true stories to the big screen-and has met with ...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Customer relations A fast-food employee in West Philadelphia, Pa., got medieval on a rude customer. And though an area manager for the Checkers fast-food chain admits that the employee was ...
Quotables
Quotables
"It takes a big man to swing a pink bat." Howard Smith, senior vice president for licensing for Major League Baseball, on dozens of players' plans to use pink bats on Mother's Day to raise ...
The Buzz
The Buzz
IRAN Mahmoud Ahmadinejad intensified attacks against Israel, calling it "a tyrannical regime that one day will be destroyed." The Iranian president made his remarks in Jakarta to cheering students...
The Buzz Sidebar
Dressing up hate
What does the term "Christianist" mean and why is Time peddling it? Time columnist Andrew Sullivan uses the term to describe evangelicals with whom he disagrees. He says his goal is to "tak...