The Christian Science Monitor Weekly - October 20, 2017

Luther’s legacy How people use the Bible today, 500 years after a rebellious monk decreed that the book should be the supreme authority in matters of faith – sparking the Protestant Reformation.

BRIEFING: WHY DO ALLIES CLASH AS FOES IN IRAQ? Kurdish peshmerga militias have been very effective against Islamic State jihadis, fighting alongside Iraqi federal forces. Now that ISIS is largely defeated, long-simmering tensions threaten to tear the alliance apart.

CULTURE: PRESERVING A COUNTRY’S ARTISTIC GEMS A British charitable group works in a historical neighborhood to keep Afghanistan’s cultural legacy alive.