Volume 42, Number 11
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Michael G. Maudlin, Managing Editor
by Steve Rabey
by Charlotte Graham
by Greg Clugston
Donations in 1997 rose 7.5% to $143.5 billion. Individual gifts to religious causes were the most common.
by Christine J. Gardner
by John W. Kennedy
by Jim Jones in Dallas
by Belinda Pollard in Brisbane
by Barbara G. Baker, Compass Direct
by Gordon Govier
Compass Direct News Service
by Christine J. Gardner
by Christine J. Gardner
by Tony Carnes
by Mark A. Kellner
Muslim-Christian tensions remain high.
by Connie Kisuke in Nairobi
A Costa Rican church underwrites an urban outreach effort with premium coffee sales.
by Deann Alford in San Jose, Costa Rica
by Carolyn McCulley
Calvin E. Shenk
Wendy Murray Zoba
Brother Andrew with Verne Becker
Betty S. Carter
After achieving success, early retirees are finding significance in second-career mission assignments.
Christine J. Gardner
I may not have owned slaves, but I've benefited from their having been used.
Gordon Marino
It takes a church to raise the McCaugheys' septuplets.
by John W. Kennedy, in Carlisle, Iowa
First Resort founder Shari Plunkett wondered how to reach unhappily pregnant women. Answer: Work with HMOs.
Annihilationists anticipate one ultimate destiny for the wicked, an undifferentiated nonexistence.
The church needs to recover doctrine from its academic captivity.
Our message is not, We put you in office, now pay up; but rather, This should be done because it is right.