Top Religion Stories of 1998

Congress enacts law against religious persecution.
Midterm election jolts Christian Right.
Worldwide body of Anglicans rejects ordination, “marriage” for homosexuals.
Clinton seeks pastoral counsel after Lewinsky scandal.
Papal visit to Cuba stimulates religious freedom.
Christians in southern Sudan victimized by war, famine.
Public-school vouchers gain court approval.
Lutherans, Catholics draw closer on justification.
Protestants, Catholics in Northern Ireland vote for peace.
National Baptists retain indicted leader Lyons.

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Are You Tolerant? (Should You Be?) Christians are seen as the pit bulls of the culture wars—small brains, big teeth, strong jaws, and no interest in compromise. Is this indictment fair? It's time to deconstruct the gospel of tolerance.

Christianity Today January 11, 1999

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Cover Story

Are you tolerant? (Should you be?)

Daniel Taylor

Church Listens to the Profits

Christine J. Gardner

My Spice Girl Moment

Classic & Contemporary Excerpts from January 11, 1999

Can the Dead Be Converted?

J. I. Packer

The Hard Songs of Fernando Ortega

Wendy Murray Zoba

In His Steps: How to Become an Apprentice of Jesus

Reviewed by John Wilson

The Sky Isn’t Falling

Churches Join 'Prayer Evangelism'

Christine J. Gardner

At-Home Dads Gather and Bond

Angels of the Night

Verla Wallace in Chicago

Religious Leaders Tell Clinton to Quit

Family-Friendly Titanic Irks Hollywood

Conservative Texans Form New Group

In Brief: January 11, 1999

Christians Killed, Churches Burn

Christians Want Shock Rocker Manson Banned

Relief Groups Struggle to Aid Churches

Raising Funds While Helping the Poor

Christine J. Gardner

In Brief: January 11, 1999

Communist Crackdown Stymies Growing Church

Michael Fischer

Wire Story

Orthodox Land Use Angers Laity

Poisonous Gospel

Are You Satisfied?

Letters

A Gospel Gold Mine or a Sinking Pyramid?

Investigative Report: It's not in the Greek Does Greater Ministries Misuse Scripture?

States Pass New Protections

Evangelicals Press Political Leader to Focus on Poverty Issues

Deann Alford in Managua

Reconciling the World Through Painful Stories

Ken Walker in Louisville

Wire Story

Ecumenism: Orthodox Push for WCC Reform

Tom Finger in Harare, with reports from Chris Roberts, Religion News Service

Jonestown: Twenty Years Later, Cults Still Lethal

Christine J. Gardner in Chicago

Editorial

Reconnecting with the Poor

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When Church and State Cooperate

The Coming Secular Apocalypse

Mark A. Kellner

Y2K Preparation Guide

Mark A. Kellner

The Bible Jesus Read

Philip Yancey

The Fatted Faithful

Virginia Stem Owens

It's Hard to Hug a Bully

Barbara Brown Taylor

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Midwest Primaries, Taiwan’s Ukraine Lessons, and Abortion Pill Case

Clarissa Moll, Russell Moore

Indiana and Ohio hold primaries, Trump travels to Beijing, and the Supreme Court considers the abortion pill.

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A pile of colorful clothes overlapping each other.

Thrifting to the Glory of God

Ann Byle

Shopping secondhand and donating our own items echoes Jesus’ renewal of discarded lives.

A 'No Kids Zone' sign at the entrance of a cafe in Seoul.

‘No-Kids Zones’ Abound in South Korea. But Kids Aren’t Pests.

Ahrum Yoo

In a country with one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, children are seen as a nuisance. But they are a blessing that can pierce the idols of efficiency.