Volume 44, Number 8
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Cover Story
The church has an unprecedented chance to reach a generation burned by commitment-free sex
By Paula Rinehart
More from this Issue
By David Neff, Executive Editor
Asserting the Bible's authority, Southern Baptists say pastors must be male.
By Jody Veenker in Orlando
Religious Freedom Ruling Set
By Mark I. Pinsky in Eustis
Latin American publishers join together to promote regional writers.
By Kenneth D. MacHarg
Will abortion stances play an influential role in Vice Presidential selection?
By Jody Veenker
Bestseller Left Behind's big-screen debut set for 2001.
By Denyse O'Leary in Toronto
The unexpected support of house-church leaders helps turn the tide in the China trade debate, but Christians remain divided.
By Tony Carnes
By Ecumenical News International
A paramilitary group in Uganda is abducting younger children to fill its ranks. Those who manage to escape are plagued with haunting memories.
By Greg Taylor in Kampala
Is Amsterdam 2000 Graham's 'Swan Song'?
By Ted Olsen
An unusual alliance promises more credit to Africa's poor.
By Odhiambo Okite
A decade-old ethnic church blooms despite government suspicion.
By Tobin Perry in Almaty
Open trade with China will open ministry opportunities. But will human rights improve?
A Christianity Today Editorial
Engagement with the culture has always required a steady, confident perseverance by Christians.
A Christianity Today Editorial
What about the unmarried in their postcollege years?
An interview with Steve Tracy
The untold story of the freed slaves who brought Christ—and liberty—to West Africa. An interview with Lamin Sanneh.
By Tim Stafford
Classic and contemporary excerpts on beauty, prayer, and loving God
God will hold us up and keep us safe, despite the times we've tripped.
By Marguerite Shuster
A gay journalist and evangelical pastor correct their mutual misperceptions.
By Wendy Murray Zoba
Anxiety hangs over a culture when adults act like children.
By Frederica Mathewes-Green
The church need not divorce the military to remain a godly counterculture.
By Douglas K. Stewart
Question: What is the biblical hope and comfort we can offer a suicide victim's family and friends? —name withheld
By Lewis B. Smedes
Michael Card argues that a proper view of Christ is a key to creativity.
By Wendy Murray Zoba
Bourgeois bohemians wield inordinate power over how we think about consumerism, morality—and faith itself.
By Roberto Rivera
If the pugilistic Harvard professor has it right, then Christian theology—even God—is irrelevant.
By Steven H. Aden
The church can learn about grace from the recovery movement.
By Philip Yancey