Volume 42, Number 6
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Cover Story
How a workaholic jock and insensitive husband became the nation's leading Promise Keeper.
Phyllis E. Alsdurf
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David Neff, Executive Editor
Falwell Denounces Operation Rescue
by Christopher Calnan in Lynchburg
Leaders Retain 'Chastity' Vow
by Richard A. Kauffman in Washington, D.C.
Newspaper expose finds the promise of some child-sponsorship programs falls short.
by Art Moore
Antischool-prayer crusaders cite a 50-year-old case in resisting the proposed Religious Freedom Amendment.
by Julia Lieblich, Religion News Service
New information-age strategy enables stations to compete with secular counterparts.
by Kenneth D. MacHarg
by Mary Cagney
by Mary Cagney in South Carolina
by Obed Minchakpu in Jos, Nigeria
by Sean Aaron Osborne in Jerusalem
by Kenneth D. MacHarg
by Deann Alford
by Jeff M. Sellers in Madrid
Instead of folding, the church should be upping the ante
With $4 million in donations, Promise Keepers recalls its staff—for now.
by John W. Kennedy
That hate mail really gave me a first glimpse of the seething giant of racism lurking within the Christian church.
How Mississippi's Bible Belt succumbed so quickly and so completely to the gambling industry.
Tim Stafford
Despite the murders of 120 church leaders, Christians are fighting for peace in one of the world's most violent nations.
David L. Miller in Bogota and Medellin
When Jesus had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.—Acts 1:9.
Barbara Brown Taylor
Lifting manhole covers and crawling inside is a first step in a Romanian ministry's gritty outreach.
by Tomas Dixon in Bucharest
Many faiths, not just ours, hold quite specific doctrines and stand at firm disagreement with one another.
The pope's chief doctrinal officer has always been in dialogue with the Reformation traditions. Now he reveals his vision for Christianity in the new millennium.
Richard John Neuhaus
How colleges-not excluding Christian schools-have been shaped by market forces.
A window on the Greek Christian world-and a model for contemporary theology and biblical study.
All those who take up the daunting task of Bible translation step into a force field of tension.
Philip Yancey