Christianity Today

October 7, 1996

Volume 40, Number 11

October 28 October 28, 1996
October 7
September 16 September 16, 1996

Why the Devil Takes Visa: A Christian response to the triumph of consumerism.

Cover Story

Cover Story

Why the Devil takes VISA

Rodney Clapp

A Christian response to the triumph of consumerism.

Features

CBS Sends Mixed Signals

CBS Sends Mixed Signals, Critics Say

Democrats Eye Recapturing Congress

Kim Lawton in Washington, D.C.

Too Holy for the World Too Worldly for the Church?

Christian alternative bands look for a home.

Persecuted Convert Flees to America

Barbara G. Baker

Muslim Convert Hussein Flees Kuwait for United States

Spain: Evangelicals Weary of ‘Cult’ Label

Jeff M. Sellers in Madrid

Evangelicals Weary of Religious ‘Cult’ Label

Crusades: Christians Apologize for Ancient Wrongs

Rusty Wright

Christians Retrace Crusaders’ Steps

The Other Great Commission

We have no mandate to “Christianize” the United States.

Candidates Court Family Values Vote

John W. Kennedy

Will evangelicals tip the scales in the presidential race?

RCA Rebukes Pastor, Church

RCA Rebukes Pastor, Church

Leading Church Leaves Association

James A. Beverley

Leading Church Leaves Association

Leader Dismissed Over Book Profits

Leader Dismissed Over Book Profits

Do Photos Evidence Lost Edenic River?

Gordon Govier

Do Photos Evidence Lost Edenic River?

Overseas Justice Ministry Launched

Overseas Justice Ministry Launched

First Woman, Layperson Elected Chair

First Woman, Layperson Elected Chair

John Leo’s Counterpunch Morality

Warren Bird

Counterpunch Morality: How columnist John Leo challenges the moral assumptions of the cultured elite.

Prayer, Prozac, and the Healing of America

Notes for a Trinitarian psychology

Surprised by Zoe

Max De Pree marvels at the frailty-and wonder-of his granddaughter’s life.

Christmas in the Culture Wars

A fable for our times

Betraying the Reformation?

An Evangelical Response by Donald G. Bloesch

Two responses to R. C. Sproul’s critical assessment of the ecumenical document “Evangelicals and Catholics Together.”

Musicianaries

by Andres T. Tapia

The Mennonites’ Dirty Little Secret

John D. Roth

What Christians could learn from Menno Simons and how he rescued the Anabaptist movement.

Editorial

The Oprahcizing of American Politics

Like everything else in our culture, the political process has been turned into a consumer commodity.

One Lord, One Faith, One Voice?

A forum on the limits of politics and a search for common ground.

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