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The next C. S. Lewis?
By Stanley J. Grenz, What Christians Really Believe-and Why. (Westminster John Knox, 159 pp.)...
Twenty Questions, by Paul McComas
By Paul McComas, Twenty Questions: A Collection of Short and Very Short Stories. (Fithian, 176 pp.)...
Vouch for it? Vouchers and religious schools: Vouchers and religious schools
The founder of this magazine, Charles Clayton Morrison, was fiercely opposed to any form of government support for parochial schools....
Free fall: Religious pluralism in Russia
One cannot call the religious situation in contemporary Russia stable. There are divisions not only between different religions or Christian confessions, but within the Russian Orthodox Church....
Christians in Pakistan confront charges of blasphemy
Roman Catholic Bishop John Joseph of Pakistan shot himself to death on May 6 to highlight the case of Ayub Massih, a Christian sentenced to death for supposedly making blasphemous remarks against t...
God in a pocket: Jeremiah 23:23-29;Psalm 82;Hebrews 11:29-12:2;Luke 12:49-56
“Am I a God near by, says the Lord, and not a God far off?”Jeremiah 23:23...
Three Samaritans
Several years ago, when my wife and I were living in Pittsburgh for most of a year, we set out to attend worship in a church where a friend was the pastor....
Parenting and politics: Giving new shape to ‘family values’
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett an Cornel West, The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleagured Moms and Dads. (Houghton Mifflin, 302 pp.)...
Political theology on the right and left
By James L. Guth, John C. Green, Corwin E. Smidt, Lyman A. Kellstedt and Margaret M....
Clergy Killers, by Lloyd Rediger
By Lloyd Reidger, Clergy Killers: Guidance for Pastors and Congregations Under Attack. (Westminster John Knox, 200 pp.)...
Victims and Sinners, by Linda A. Mercadante
By Linda A. Mercadante, Victims and Sinners: Spiritual Roots of Addiction and Recovery. (Westminster John Knox, 220 pp.)...
China syndrome: The incentive for trade
President Clinton gently urged Chinese leaders to try a little tenderness in dealing with dissidents....
The crisis of violence: What can be done?
Each day’s newspaper seems to carry yet another story about a shooting by or of children, whether by accident or intention, on the street or at school, from gang violence or by a lone gunman....
Abuses in Nagaland: Protesting rights violations
When an ethnic group is being persecuted, it is often hard to determine whether people’s religious or human rights are being violated....
Debating Darwin: The ‘intelligent design’ movement
“The time has come,” the lawyer said,“To talk of many things,Of Gods, and gaps, and miracles,Of lots of missing links,...
Healthy start: An interview with Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman is founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, a national child advocacy organization....
How much protection does religion need?
In June Congress held hearings on the Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1998 (RLPA)....