Christianity Today

September 6, 1999

Volume 43, Number 10

October 4 October 4, 1999
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Is the Religious Right Finished? Some prominent conservative leaders have been deeply disappointed by the results of political activism. Are they right to sound the retreat? An insiders' conversation.

Cover Story

Cover Story

Is the Religious Right Finished?

Responses to the call of Ed Dobson and Cal Thomas for “some sort of quarantine.”

Cover Story

The Moral Minority

Paul Weyrich was once a founding father of the Religious Right. In 1999, he explained to CT readers why it was time to give up the Moral Majority fight.

Cover Story

We Can’t Stop Now, by Ralph Reed

Ralph Reed is a Republican strategist, president of Century Strategies, author of Active Faith (Free Press), and former executive director of the Christian Coalition.

Cover Story

Have We Settled for Caesar?, by Cal Thomas

Cal Thomas is a syndicated columnist and the coauthor (with Edward Dobson) of Blinded by Might: Can the Religious Right Save America? (Zondervan). From 1980 to 1985 he served as vice president for communications of the Moral Majority.

Cover Story

I’d Do It All Again

In a 1999 article, Jerry Falwell explains why Christians shouldn’t give up on the Religious Right

Cover Story

Fighting the Wrong Battle

Don Eberly, a former aide in the Reagan White House, is founder of the National Fatherhood Initiative and director of the Civil Society Project.

Features

Chicago Hope

How Christians are transforming public education.

Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Arminian

My Reformed friends sometimes treat me like the enemy, but actually we need each other.

Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen talks about reclaiming feminism

Why Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen does not want to give up on a perfectly good word.

Taking Back Mars Hill—with Grace

Alister McGrath’s new apologetics appeals to the deep longings of today’s seekers.

Trapped in the Cult of the Next Thing

If ever there was a cult that gave us stones when we asked for bread, this is it.

Mennonite Groups Agree on Merger and New Division

DENOMINATIONS: Mennonite Groups Agree on Merger and New Division

Jerusalem: Reconciliation Walk Reaches Pinnacle

Western Christians ask forgiveness for crusader atrocities.

Money: Religious Mutual Funds Flourish

Socially responsible’ investing grows popular.

Africa: Traditionalists in Conflict with Evangelicals

Christian teachings conflict with tribal customs, national laws.

New Latino Congregations Spring Up

Church networks are cooperating to launch congregations in unlikely U.S. locations.

Editorial

Stay in School

Why dropping out of public education is a bad choice for Christians.

News

Views

The Thrill of Naughtiness

If South Park opens the door for latent hostility against faith to be ventilated, Christians should brace themselves for a rough time ahead.

The Encyclopedia of Theological Ignorance

In view of the mess we have made of crystal-clear commands, I tremble to think how we might act if some doctrines were less ambiguous.

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