A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
All in the family
Behind the scandal-tainted C Street house is an organization big on protecting its own and small on church ties and theology
Inside Oz
Learning about the politics of big business, and what "an honest day's work" might come to mean.
Ruled out
In a down economy, burgeoning government regulations can cause 'death by a thousand pin pricks' for small businesses
Faith on film
New York photographer's project shows the "visual manifestation of God working in peoples' lives"
Voices
Marvin Olasky
Is social justice just ice?
One of the favorite words of President Obama and his supporters is "justice," often combined with the adjective "social." We hear calls for government-imposed economic redistribution through taxes...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Secret plans
I think I understand why we have contempt for conspiracy theories: No one wants to be the National Enquirer. (Although, wasn't it the National Enquirer that broke the John Edwards extramarital aff...
Janie B. Cheaney
One large misstep
"We choose to [do these things] not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challen...
Mindy Belz
A million unborn tomorrows
Cynics among us will say it's an apt way to start life as an American: waiting in line. That's what 146 citizen hopefuls did last month at a swearing-in ceremony I attended at the U.S. dist...
Joel Belz
Debt reversal
Out of all the polls that have been taken and then recited back to the American public about the reform of healthcare, none is more ominous than this: that, generally speaking, the younger you are...
Appearances matter
John Walton's book, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (InterVarsity, 2009), is bound to create a stir. Why? John Walton as an Old Testament scholar add...
The Editors
Mailbag
Perfect opportunity Joel Belz's idea ("Freedom from fear," July 18) makes sense. Why do we older Christians try every medical treatment available when we know the end can be delayed a relat...
Culture
Music
Four horsemen
For years Christian rock bands have claimed to be about either reaching the lost or feeding the found. But if Haunted Horse: Songs of Love, Defiance & Delusion, the sophomore effort by the Too...
Books
An early 9/11
Sept. 11, 1922, is the day that the destruction of Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey) went from bad to worse. Giles Milton's Paradise Lost, Smyrna, 1922: The Destruction of a Christian City in the Islamic...
Notable CDs
Notable CDs
The subtitle: "Music for the film by Theo Angelopoulos"-or 44 minutes of music from Angelopoulos' latest two-hour epic, to be more precise. Around a core of selections featuring violin, violoncell...
Notable Books
Notable books
True confessions: I had never read a novel by Beverly Lewis, but now I understand their charms. In this first in a new series, Lewis introduces members of the Bylers, an Amish family being torn as...
Movies & TV
The joy of Julia
The screen adaptation of Julie Powell's book Julie and Julia may have better been titled The Joy of Julia. Meryl Streep's portrayal of Julia Child brings the cooking guru's joie de vivre to life w...
Movies & TV
Searching for love
Charlyne Yi, a 20-something comedian in Los Angeles, doesn't believe in love. The new movie Paper Heart, a blend of documentary and fiction, follows her attempt to discover what love is, and shine...
Movies & TV
Average Joe
If anyone needs proof that Hollywood is dumbing down its releases and (worse yet) audiences are responding, look no further than the hit movie G.I. Joe. Launching a proposed franchise based on the...
Movies & TV
Soul-searching
What is the soul, exactly? Is it a force that acts on "a small gland" in the center of the brain, to quote Rene Descartes? Is it a meaningless construct created by ignorant people who fear change,...
Music
No mere novelty
In the United States, where the Walter Murphy Band and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra scored top-10 disco hits with "A Fifth of Beethoven" and "Hooked on Classics" respectively, the blending of ...
Dispatches
Quotables
Quotables
"Little by little, they are taking away everything." Venezuelan demonstrator ALIX VILLAREAL, protesting outside a radio station that President Hugo Chavez has forced off the air. The Chavez...
The Buzz
The Buzz
Tehran crackdown Caught in a wave of "anti-government activist" show trials in Iran are two women arrested by Iranian security forces in March for activities related to their Christian fait...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Whiskey rebellion Question: What's the fastest way to incite a riot in Scotland? Mess with their whiskey. More than 20,000 Scots took to the streets in Kilmarnock after multinational bevera...