From The Atlantic, Eleanor Barkhorn on how Timothy Keller spreads the Gospel in New York City, and beyond. Rob Bell stirs wrath with new views on old questions (and more). How might a Christian apologist such as William Lane Craig explain the plight of Elisabeth Fritzl and her children? After 19 years of evangelical preaching, Dan Barker realised his belief in God was not logical. A review of The Heartbeat of God: Finding the Sacred in the Middle of Everything by Katharine Jefferts Schori. When does a religion become a cult? America has long been a safe harbor for experimental faiths, but the unorthodox can descend into something darker. A review of Evangelical vs. Liberal: The Clash of Christian Cultures in the Pacific Northwest by James K. Wellman Jr. From First Things, George Weigel on the end of the Bernardin Era: The rise, dominance, and decline of a culturally accommodating Catholicism; the Good News about Evangelicalism: Evangelicalism isn’t shrinking and the young are not becoming liberals; and Dale M. Coulter on the cosmopolitan nature of Pentecostalism. Subject to the Governor of the Universe: Charles J. Chaput on the American experience and global religious liberty: "Nothing guarantees that America’s experiment in religious freedom will survive here in the United States". What do Saudi Arabia and America have in common? Why, religion of course — hinterland faiths are on the rise, and there’s nothing the Western humanists can do about it. In the present day WWJD? is a more popular ethical guide than the systems offered by Immanuel Kant, J. S. Mill, or John Rawls.
