Christianity Today

February 19, 2001

Volume 45, Number 3

March 5 March 5, 2001
February 19
February 5 February 5, 2001

Special Technology Issue: Is God.com Dead? The Openness Debate. The Wireless Gospel.

Cover Story

Cover Story

Is God.com Dead?

Investors lost faith in iBelieve.com, Lightsource.com was extinguished, and Crosswalk is being run over. What happened to the for-profit Christian Web site boom?

Features

Religion on the Final Frontier

From a religion-free utopia to a myth-laden spirituality, Star Trek’s 30-year mission has always been haunted by questions of God

Bioethics: Feds Teach Kids Not to Hack

FBI launches morality education program for would-be computer criminals.

Law: Christian Nonprofits Divided on IRS Proposals

Web sites may have to limit hyperlinks and monitor message boards for political activity.

Charity: Businesses Find Money in Charity

Are for-profit Web sites skimming the collection plate?

Gene Screening Raises Questions

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis allows parents to choose children for their genes.

Whole Lot of Clicking Going On

Some results of the Pew Internet and American Life Project

Plugging In: Not Just for Visitors

Churches are discovering their Web sites can do more than tell people how to find the building on Sunday morning.

Video: And the Word Came with Pictures

The former American Uranium Inc. mines a new market of Christian consumers, looking for gold on the silver screen.

Truth, Suitable for Framing

Before there was the Internet, there was the Talmud. And they have a lot in common.

Good Idea, Fallible Filters

Why even free-speechers liked the Children’s Internet Protection Act

Something Retro

Trained to Thrill?

Catechumen, the first Christian video game with a decent budget, is garnering praise from critics.

Not Your Grandfather’s Mission Field

From lighter radios to lightning fast computers, technology is speeding up ministry and easing the load at Wycliffe Bible Translators

Ten Books, Twenty-Two Ounces

The incredible lightness of reading may make the e-book the format of choice

No Luddites Here

Evangelicals have (almost) always been quick to adopt communications technologies.

The Wireless Gospel

Sixty-two years ago, Back to the Bible joined the radio revolution; now it is finding new media for its old message. A case study in evangelicals’ love affiar with communications technology

Open Debate in the Openness Debate

It’s been centuries since Luther nailed his theses to a church door, but the Internet is reintroducing theological debate to the public square.

‘We All Believe In Something’

And Beliefnet believes the answer to serving both God and mammon lies in being as interfaith as possible.

Views

Andy Crouch: Promises, Promises

Our technology works. But all idols do at first

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