Oprah Winfrey said goodbye to her daytime show to focus on her cable network. CT's 2002 cover story looked at how Oprah has become one of the most influential spiritual leaders in America.
LaTonya Taylor
April 1, 2002
"Four popular New Age voices featured on Winfrey's television show and in her magazine, O."
LaTonya Taylor
April 1, 2002
Living and dying—and living again—after September 11.
M. Craig Barnes
April 1, 2002
Evangelicals of all stripes are reviving the neglected art of expository preaching.
Edward Gilbreath
April 1, 2002
Haddon Robinson on the precarious future of evangelical preaching.
Edward Gilbreath
April 1, 2002
Compromise bill for religious nonprofits gains grudging support.
John W. Kennedy
April 1, 2002
Conservatives gain last needed vote to defeat Amendment A.
Religion News Services
April 1, 2002
National Prayer Breakfast drops Muslim from program.
Tony Carnes
April 1, 2002
Bible-belt churches gear up for lottery battles in Tennessee and North Carolina.
Chuck Fager
April 1, 2002
Flap over political identity forces NRB president to resign.
LaTonya Taylor
April 1, 2002
But evangelical backers of new translation say gender changes are 'accurate.'
Timothy C. Morgan
April 1, 2002
Christians in India fight female feticide and illegal prenatal testing.
Manpreet Singh
April 1, 2002
Only a handful of Turkey's evangelical churches meet in state-recognized church buildings.
Compass Direct
April 1, 2002
Visits to Israel fall 45 percent as violence escalates.
Michael R. Smith
April 1, 2002
Mission workers testify that Christ helps control sexual urges.
Sue Sprenkle
April 1, 2002
Property rights will be extended to unmarried partners who have lived together for three years.
Dave Crampton
April 1, 2002
Timothy C. Morgan
April 1, 2002
"Is there any doubt that the God of Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses is indeed the God of the Muslim, the Jew, and the Christian?"
April 1, 2002
Cal Thomas allegedly quotes John Ashcroft on Islam and more comments from around the world.
Ted Olsen
April 1, 2002
Orlando's Holy Land Experience surpasses first year expectations and Christian music soars in 2001.
Ted Olsen
April 1, 2002
A Vatican bishop links sin with sickness.
Ted Olsen
April 1, 2002
The media questions conservative speaker Clark Bowers on his claims of detainment in Afghanistan.
Ted Olsen
April 1, 2002
The widow of Todd Beamer is concerned that the wrong people are embracing America's new creed.
Ted Olsen
April 1, 2002
A new study finds that married people live longer and are less depressed.
Ted Olsen
April 1, 2002
Schools wrestle with religious freedom in the classroom.
Ted Olsen
April 1, 2002
University of Washington physician finally has his diagnosis.
Ted Olsen
April 1, 2002
Tim LaHaye signs Bantam Dell book deal for $45 million.
Ted Olsen
April 1, 2002
"No translation is perfect, and each must be read with a careful exegetical eye."
A Christianity Today Editorial
April 1, 2002
Wayne Pederson's point was on target: evangelicalism risks identification more as a political movement than a theological one.
A Christianity Today Editorial
April 1, 2002
Quotations to Stir Heart and Mind
Richard A. Kauffman
April 1, 2002
Where exactly do Oneness Pentecostals stand in relation to orthodoxy? Are they in or out?
J. Stephen Lang
April 1, 2002
The old kind of Christian is the best hope for church renewal.
Mark Galli
April 1, 2002
Ron Howard's Oscar-winning film packs an unintentional biblical message.
Stephen L. Carter
April 1, 2002
"American 'roots' music (a la the Grammy-winning O Brother, Where Art Thou?) is making a comeback for reasons Christians can readily understand."
Eric Miller
April 1, 2002
Church-bashers have another collection of horror stories to give them goose bumps.
Mark A. Kellner
April 1, 2002
A multi-genre film explores life after death—with maddening results.
Douglas LeBlanc
April 1, 2002
How to turn the Baywatch syndrome into the Jesus syndrome.
Philip Yancey
April 1, 2002