Christianity Today

November 16, 1998

Volume 42, Number 13

December 7 December 7, 1998
November 16
October 26 October 26, 1998

Now That We're Global: Greetings from the worldwide fellowship. When we asked international evangelical leaders to report on the state of their church, we heard not just cold stats, but flesh-and-blood believers with attitude.

Cover Story

Cover Story

It’s a Small Church After All

Globalization is changing how Christians do ministry.

Features

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.

Editorial

The Truth About Lies

For a nation in denial, it’s time to tell it like it is.

Editorial

If It’s Too Good to Be True …

Those who are foolish in small things often get caught being foolish in big things.

News

Views

Poster Boy for Postmodernism

Strohmeyer told police he strangled the little girl by twisting her neck the way he had seen in movies.

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