Volume 42, Number 8
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Cover Story
Eyewitness reports of repression and revival.
by Timothy C. Morgan
More from this Issue
David Neff, Executive Editor
Lutherans, Episcopalians Revive Talks
U.S. team finds that Arab Christians are subject to discrimination, but not life-threatening persecution.
by Peri Stone in Jerusalem
by S. Aaron Osborne in Jerusalem
Healing and faith find a connection.
by Cecile S. Holmes in Houston
Riots Traumatize Chinese Christians
by Alex Buchan with Compass Direct in Jakarta
Clinton Names Seiple to New Post
by John W. Kennedy in Salt Lake City
by Richard A. Kauffman in Pasadena
by Chuck Fager
by Art Moore in Seattle
The same flawed arguments that legalized abortion are now used to support physician-assisted suicide.
Former NAE president Don Argue calls for engagement, not isolation.
Christians hold the missing key to racial reconciliation—but it won't be popular.
Spencer Perkins
How my hometown deals with being the execution capital of the world.
Virginia Stem Owens
The Gospel of Mark's prescription for spiritual sanity.
Eugene H. Peterson
The closest things to territorial spirits in the New Testament are angels, not demons.
Sorry, Jimmy Olsen; middle-class morality ain't what it used to be.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
What if the writer of the Fourth Gospel had to get his work published in today's market …
Bob Hudson
The universal religion of humankind is: We develop a good record and give it to God, and then he owes us. The gospel is: we owe God.
Tim Keller
A concise, clear argument for how God can be both good and omnipotent.
His Bill of Rights sculpture shows American hands, but Wu Kwan knows his life journey has been shaped by God's hand.
Miracle Monument
As I remember my trip to Lebanon, I think how easy it is to write about the gospel from my serene perch in Colorado.
Philip Yancey