Volume 44, Number 9
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Cover Story
Women reaching women is key to the future of missions.
By Wendy Murray Zoba
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By Harold Myra, Chief Executive Officer
After pregame prayer is barred, educators say they do not need a microphone to pray.
By Deann Alford in Austin, Texas
After pregame prayer is barred, educators say they do not need a microphone to pray.
By Tony Carnes
Christian college costs are lower than the national average, but increasing at a higher rate.
Graphic by Dale Glasgow
The financially strapped NCC reaches out to evangelicals and Roman Catholics.
By Jody Veenker
Southern Baptists work and witness in Chicago street outreach.
By Corrie Cutrer in Chicago
Episcopalians defer debate over same-sex blessings for another three years.
By Douglas LeBlanc in Denver
Long-time Dallas pastor and chairman of Christianity Today International's Board of Directors stricken at Montreat, North Carolina
By Jerry L. Van Marter
By Mark A. Kellner in Long Beach, Calif.
Presbyterians, Catholics try to reconcile as expulsions persist in Chiapas.
By Kenneth D. MacHarg, with reports from Compass Direct
Freedoms may be in danger in the new Russia.
By Beverly Nickles, Compass Direct
Central American farmers gather more than one harvest.
By Deann Alford in Condega, Nicaragua
Christians hope to break the silence and overcome Asia's prejudice against people with AIDS.
By Manpreet Singh in New Delhi
The SBC's new Faith and Message brings needed clarity—but maybe at the cost of honest diversity.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Missionary says women suffer grave injustices.
Clarke wants the African-American church fired up about career mission service.
For years our congregation had done short-term missions projects. Then the Afar of Africa expanded our vision.
By Roberta Hestenes
A veteran missiologist and marketing analyst implores the missions community to tabulate less and pray more
By James F. Engel
Methodist evangelicals pull a once 'incurably liberal' denomination back toward the orthodox center.
By Thomas Oden
An hour of quiet is a rare gift, hard to come by in an ordinary week, even for those who seek it.
By Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
By Michael Cromartie
Louisiana's special assistant attorney general questions well-intentioned lawmakers.
By Dorinda C. Bordlee
Quotes on Christian virtues | posted 8/22/00
Phyllis Tickle thinks cookbooks and prayerbooks have a lot in common.
By Lauren F. Winner
In focusing so intently on Jesus the man, Peter Jennings' report missed the big picture.
By Darrell Bock
Changes make the Passion play more sensitive to Jews and more faithful to Scripture.
By Paul L. Maier
Too many believers pick and choose their own truths.
By Charles Colson