Volume 42, Number 6
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Antischool-prayer crusaders cite a 50-year-old case in resisting the proposed Religious Freedom Amendment.
by Julia Lieblich, Religion News Service
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New information-age strategy enables stations to compete with secular counterparts.
by Kenneth D. MacHarg
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That hate mail really gave me a first glimpse of the seething giant of racism lurking within the Christian church.
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How Mississippi's Bible Belt succumbed so quickly and so completely to the gambling industry.
Tim Stafford
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Despite the murders of 120 church leaders, Christians are fighting for peace in one of the world's most violent nations.
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When Jesus had said this, as they were watching, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.—Acts 1:9.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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Lifting manhole covers and crawling inside is a first step in a Romanian ministry's gritty outreach.
by Tomas Dixon in Bucharest
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Many faiths, not just ours, hold quite specific doctrines and stand at firm disagreement with one another.
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The pope's chief doctrinal officer has always been in dialogue with the Reformation traditions. Now he reveals his vision for Christianity in the new millennium.
Richard John Neuhaus