ARTICLES:

• Cover Story: The death and life of compassionate conservatism - Real change is key to the success of 10 faith-based finalists
• "The Truth Project" goes well beyond mere rhetoric [Joel Belz]
• The Buzz: Quick Takes, Quotables, Movies & TV, Music
• Obama and the danger of a divinized ruler [Gene Edward Veith]
• Politics: Democrats hope their success in Colorado points to national change and an Obama victory
• Campaign Issues: Obama and McCain say they can cure what ails American health care
• Disaster: Midwest areas hurt by flooding get help from Katrina survivors
• Israel: A lesser-known in the West, foreign minister Tzipi Livni is Israel's leader-in-waiting
• Man Knows Not His Time: Russia's paramount 20th-century scribe, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, wrote his way through hardship
• While Olympic pageantry reign, remember the shut-outs [Mindy Belz]
• Lifestyle & Tech
• Sports
• Houses of God
• Mailbag
• Private battles are ones that must be won [Andree Seu]
• What "nondiscrimination" means in Obama's faith-based initiative [Marvin Olasky]
• …and more!

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To report, interpret, and illustrate the news in a timely, accurate, enjoyable, and arresting fasion from a perspective committed to the Bible as the inerrant Word of God.