Volume 44, Number 11
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Cover Story
A CT forum examines the subtle nature of the church's racial division—and offers hope.
With Elward Ellis, Robert Franklin, Charles Lyons, John Ortberg, J.I. Packer, Edward Gilbreath, and Mark Galli
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By Charles Lyons
At Willow Creek conference, President Clinton reviews his moral failures, details his spiritual recovery.
By Corrie Cutrer in South Barrington, Illinois
Stockwell Day, leader of Canadian Alliance, wins House of Commons seat.
By Denyse O'Leary in Toronto
Broadcasters resist low-power FM licenses due to listening-quality concerns.
By Corrie Cutrer
After churches defeat education lottery, some agree to historians controversial plan.
By Religion News Service
Clean-living Christians create an unusual way to share medical expenses.
By Chuck Fager
World Assembly of God Fellowship aims to triple its size.
By Corrie Cutrer
The city's churches are helping exploited migrant workers.
By Anil Stephen in Hong Kong
Religious apartheid is coming, says human rights leader.
By C. Hope Flinchbaugh
Iraqi Christians persevere in spite of Saddam Hussein and 10 years of an economic embargo.
By Mel Lehman in Baghdad
The Amsterdam Declaration illustrates how far evangelicals have come in 26 years—especially in putting ideas into practice.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Joseph Lieberman's Torah observance could renew America's moral debate.
By David Neff
A recent study argues that American evangelicals cannot foster genuine racial reconciliation. Is our theology to blame?
Why 11 o'clock Sunday morning is still a mostly segregated hour. An excerpt from Divided by Faith .
By Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith
As a white pastor of a black church, I found the main reason prejudice and racism hurt so much: because we are so much alike.
By Pamela Baker Powell
Leighton Ford's new ministry is, in many ways, like his former calling—only more personal
By Lauren F. Winner
The spiritual journey of George W. Bush starts in hardscrabble west Texas. Will the White House be his next stop?
By Tony Carnes
Nearly everyone at the nuclear power plant wanted to cover up the hazards, but one engineer refused to go along.
By Adam Bowles
While 10,000 evangelists take the day off in Amsterdam, local ministries continue their long, personal mission.
By Ted Olsen in Amsterdam
A precise account of the human condition, at all times and in all places.
By Fleming Rutledge
Christians work to reclaim the culture for Jesus. Maybe he doesn't want it.
By Kenneth H. Gray
Why Christians should embrace the devilish holiday with gusto—and laughter.
By Anderson M. Rearick III
I'd like life to be a series of pauses like a poem, rather than a fast-paced, page-turner airport novel.
By Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
"She has unintentionally become an ambassador of God's grace to a community that has received too few envoys from evangelicalism."
Steve Rabey
Seven years after its publication, Roaring Lambs —now with a companion CD—still prods Christian artists to engage the culture.
Greg Clugston
In this post-Cold War era, it's time to rethink our nation's defensive strategy.
By Charles Colson