Volume 43, Number 6
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Cover Story
Casinos are seducing an alarming number of seniors. Where is the church?
John W. Kennedy
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by Michael Maudlin, Managing Editor
By James A. Beverley in Toronto.
By Kevin Heinrichs.
By Art Moore.
By Jody Veenker.
Expatriates Find Overseas Congregations Thriving
By Kenneth D. MacHarg.
By Grace Pundyk in Mahboula, Kuwait.
By Denyse O'Leary.
By Odhiambo Okite.
Ecumenical News International.
By Obed Minchakpu in Jos, Nigeria.
Religious groups say boycott bears fruit.
By Mark A. Kellner in Burbank.
Balkan evangelicals feel strain of ethnic cleansing.
By Timothy C. Morgan, with Dan and Melike Smeenge in Albania; Tomas Dixon in Vienna; Willy Fautre in Brussels; and wire reports.
By Jonathan Miles in Jerusalem.
The verdict against pastor Gregory Dell was not "denominational cleansing," but a necessary attempt at disciple making.
Amidst church conflicts and a devastating hurricane, missionaries John and Shirley Wind answered the call to leave Honduras.
Wendy Murray Zoba
A young pastor discovers what grace looks like while battling cancer.
James Van Tholen
Why Americans oppose abortion but want to keep it legal.
Clarke D. Forsythe
Jan Crouse is calling Bible-believing, intellectually minded mainline women to unite.
Susan Wise Bauer
We live the truth not for its own sake, but for God's sake and for the neighbor's sake.
Allen Verhey
The church's nuptial bond was now imagined as me-and-Jesus alone, and as swooning and passionate.
Just 50 days after Easter, the Holy Spirit empowered the Early Church. Here are timely thoughts about the Third Person of the Trinity and our response to him.
To be more effective ministers, Five Iron Frenzy resists the packaging of Christian rock bands.
Ken Steinken
Twenty years of growth and struggle for Christians in the Visual Arts.
By John Skillen
Richard Foster wants Christians to be renewed by encountering the church's "living streams."
John Wilson
By Mark Galli, editor of Christian History magazine.
The military intervention introduces moral questions that the church ought to raise now, not waiting until the body bags start coming home.