Volume 44, Number 11

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At Willow Creek conference, President Clinton reviews his moral failures, details his spiritual recovery.
By Corrie Cutrer in South Barrington, Illinois

Stockwell Day, leader of Canadian Alliance, wins House of Commons seat.
By Denyse O'Leary in Toronto

After churches defeat education lottery, some agree to historians controversial plan.
By Religion News Service

Iraqi Christians persevere in spite of Saddam Hussein and 10 years of an economic embargo.
By Mel Lehman in Baghdad

The Amsterdam Declaration illustrates how far evangelicals have come in 26 years—especially in putting ideas into practice.
A Christianity Today Editorial

A recent study argues that American evangelicals cannot foster genuine racial reconciliation. Is our theology to blame?

Why 11 o'clock Sunday morning is still a mostly segregated hour. An excerpt from Divided by Faith .
By Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith

As a white pastor of a black church, I found the main reason prejudice and racism hurt so much: because we are so much alike.
By Pamela Baker Powell

Leighton Ford's new ministry is, in many ways, like his former calling—only more personal
By Lauren F. Winner

The spiritual journey of George W. Bush starts in hardscrabble west Texas. Will the White House be his next stop?
By Tony Carnes

Nearly everyone at the nuclear power plant wanted to cover up the hazards, but one engineer refused to go along.
By Adam Bowles

While 10,000 evangelists take the day off in Amsterdam, local ministries continue their long, personal mission.
By Ted Olsen in Amsterdam

Why Christians should embrace the devilish holiday with gusto—and laughter.
By Anderson M. Rearick III

I'd like life to be a series of pauses like a poem, rather than a fast-paced, page-turner airport novel.
By Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

"She has unintentionally become an ambassador of God's grace to a community that has received too few envoys from evangelicalism."
Steve Rabey

Seven years after its publication, Roaring Lambs —now with a companion CD—still prods Christian artists to engage the culture.
Greg Clugston