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Jesus Can Still Mean Jail
The plight of Vietnam’s 700,000 evangelical Christians.
The Shroud of Turin: Cloaked in Mystery
Those who believe it is Jesus’ shroud point to features on it that seem unique to Jesus’ death, including pathological ones.
Classic & Contemporary Excerpts from November 16, 1998
Born November 29, 1898, Clive Staples Lewis in his lifetime gave us many writings that explicate the Christian faith and walk. This page of Reflections commemorates the centennial of his birth.
The Great Escape
For Truman Burbank, freedom means abandoning his false though perfect world.
The Calling of Elmer Yazzie
For this Calvinist Navajo, art is not a part of life, it is life itself.
Reality Is for Real
Why we can’t give up on objectivity, even though it is decidedly uncool.
World Growth at 19 Million a Year
The Pentecostal World Conference “offers Pentecostals an opportunity to be a unifying force in a divided world.”
Stripping the Darkness
A couple’s spiritual quest turns them into searchlights exposing family and community secrets.
Unification Church: Inside Moon’s Unhappy Family
Church founder’s ex-daughter-in-law pens grim tome about life on the inside.
Baby Boomers for Hire
Sell-out audience crowds first-time missions recruitment event.
Evangelicals Wary After Conservative Defeat
by Richard Nyberg in Bonn
Editorial
If It’s Too Good to Be True …
Those who are foolish in small things often get caught being foolish in big things.
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Poster Boy for Postmodernism
Strohmeyer told police he strangled the little girl by twisting her neck the way he had seen in movies.