Volume 53, Number 12

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Believers from Muslim backgrounds are trying to forge new identities in Islamic cultures. The debate over their options has grown furious.
Joseph Cumming

Recent remarks on faith healing, immigration, runaway Rifqa Bary, and the flu.
Compiled by Ted Olsen

Colleges debate student newspaper rules as Internet spreads stories far beyond campus.
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Why, Lord, do you allow this time, of all times, to become for some a memorial of searing pain?
Leigh C. Bishop

Author Dinesh D'Souza says new scientific thinking bolsters the case for life after death.
Interview by Mark Galli

The Dickens classic is not just charming. It's also brutally realistic about the world, then and now.
Lisa Toland

What's the biggest change needed in how charities and federal agencies deliver aid to developing nations?
Brian Fikkert, David Beckmann, and Dale Hanson Bourke

What the two genealogies of Christ, found in Matthew and Luke, are really trying to say.
Grant Osborne

Do even Christians operate from 'brazen self-interest' in interacting with others and with God?
John Wilson

Thomas Merton's letters, the law and theology of illegitimacy, and Victorian photocollage.
John Wilson

John Wigger explains how Francis Asbury left his fingerprints all over American Christianity.
Interview by Chris Armstrong