Volume 43, Number 12
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Cover Story
Revelation says more about church life today than about how the world will end.
J. NELSON KRAYBILL
More from this Issue
Michael G. Maudlin, Managing Editor
In offering their confessional book, Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson have made an important contribution to the ongoing discussion about Christians and politics ["Is the Religious Right Finished?" Sept. 6].
By Edward Gilbreath in Tampa
By Jody Veenker.
By Christine J. Gardner
By Lis Trouten in Minneapolis.
Freeze on redemptions leaves pensioners in a pinch.
By Chuck Fager.
By Steve Chambers in Kano, Nigeria, Religion News Service.
By Jody Veenker.
By Gordon Govier.
Bestseller Left Behind is slated for the big screen
By Peter T. Chattaway.
J. Nelson Kraybill.
Letters Jesus might write to churches today.
Do you think that this is what I had in mind when I said, "Follow me," and then headed for Golgotha in Jerusalem?
Eugene H. Peterson
To the Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches of North America:
By Todd Hunter
To the Church Called Mainline:
By William H. Willimon
To the Inner-City Pastor and Church:
To the Church Which Seeks Seekers:
To the Church That Endures Persecution:
Don't waste your time doing what Jesus said can't be done.
A review of end-times books with only a wee, little bit of Y2K hype thrown in.
By Mark Galli.
At UCLA, amid war protests and police helicopters, teachings on an imminent end made a lot of sense.
Some events described in Revelation occurred contemporaneously with the prophecies themselves.
By David S. Dockery
By Jody Veenker.
The view of time that the round clock suggests is only a polite fiction. In reality, time is running out.
In most ways important to God, I had failed miserably.
Philip Yancey