About This Issue: July 17, 1964

One of the nation’s leading Shakespeareans, Roland Mushat Frye, discusses the religious implications of Shakespeare’s plays in an essay written especially for us in this quadricentennial of the great poet’s birth.

Imitation as the basis of art is related to Christian perspective in John C. Cooper’s article (page 11). Bastian Kruithof discusses the problem of secularism (page 13).

Some straight talk on evangelistic methods comes from Carlton L. Myers.

A new interdenominational lay movement to promote and coordinate short-term Christian service abroad is proposed by the Rev. Robert N. Meyers, a Presbyterian minister in Vienna, Virginia (page 8).

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