Volume 45, Number 4
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Cover Story
What Internet porn did to one pastor, his wife, his ministry, their life
Christine J. Gardner
More from this Issue
Mark Galli
If convicted, Greater Ministries defendants face massive fines, prison terms.
Chuck Fager
Rate of decline even worse for evangelicals, says author of study
Stan Guthrie
Corrie Cutrer
Former and current Jehovah Witnesses question a policy they say discourages leaders from reporting abuse.
Corrie Cutrer
Jehovah's Witnesses organization changing structure
Mark A. Kellner
Despite tourism boom, churches in Bahamas find no shortage of people in need.
By Suzanne Lewis-Johnson in Nassau
Natural-gas increases strain church budgets across the U.S.
Jim Jones
El Salvador is counting on international aid
Deann Alford
Without official recognition, ministry and the elderly suffer.
Beverly Nickles in Moscow
Russia registers more than 9,000 religious organizations, but number is only 60 percent of religious groups in 1990s.
Beverly Nickles
Religious leaders' protests go unheeded by lawmakers
Cedric Pulford in London
Proposed bill would grant Christian women the right to ask for divorce if their husbands commit adultery.
Manpreet Singh in New Delhi
Afghanistan's Islamic army also says it will kill any non-Muslim seeking converts.
Barbara G. Baker
Our recommendations for President Bush and the 107th Congress
A Christianity Today Editorial
Socially responsive investors question AT&T's trafficking in hardcore smut.
A Christianity Today Editorial
Christ-centered help for those struggling with Internet pornography and sexual addiction.
For my father-in-law, his place in the order of Creation was no diminishment, but the beginning of wisdom.
Walter Wangerin Jr
A former process theologian says a 30-percent God is not worth worshipping
Wendy Murray Zoba
God's love, mercy, passion, compassion, grief, and anger are chiseled down to two words
Mark Buchanan & Photos by Adam Buchanan
When it comes to relating to the Jewish people, should we dialogue, cooperate, or evangelize?
Richard J. Mouw
'Third-Culture Kids' may be one of the most neglected, and most influential, unreached people groups
DA Fletcher
International schools, though relatively little known, teach children of some of the future's most influential people. Some alumni:
Andy Fletcher
Conservatives gear up to lobby for their presidential priorities
Sheryl Henderson Blunt
In a consumer society, there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addictions and the prisoners of envy
Ivan Illich
What you can do to help persecuted Christians in China
Jeff M. Sellers
Why aren't evangelicals reading the Bible in worship anymore?
Donald N. Bastian
Are mentally challenged adults whose intellectual age is probably that of a 1-year-old sheltered under God's salvation?
Lewis B. Smedes
Good guilt entails more than repentance for merely personal sins
Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
The best-selling novelist describes the tormented childhood that shaped his imagination.
Jeremy Lott
An evangelical alternative to Disney World makes a stormy debut in central Florida.
Mark I. Pinsky
Moral truth is in jeopardy when the courts enter the business of making law.
Charles Colson