David Briggs, Associated Press: (only four noted)
1. Religion and politics
2. Church debate on homosexuality
3. Decline in denominational giving (as percentage of income)
4. Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) statement on abortion
Steve Rabey,Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph:
1. The (political) “Righting” of American evangelicalism
2. Popular culture wars
3. Supreme Court graduation prayer decision
4. Battle over homosexual rights
5. Christian publishers and musicians in mainstream markets
Richard Vara,Houston Chronicle:
1. Christian political activity
2. Church debate on homosexuality
3. Continued demise of televangelists
4. Continued organizational separation among Southern Baptists
5. Evangelical activity in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
David Crumm,Detroit Free Press:
1. Church debate on homosexuality
2. Religion and the presidential campaign
3. Abortion
4. Sexual misconduct of religious leaders
5. Columbus quincentennial
Gustav Niebuhr,Washington Post:
1. Religion and the presidential election
2. Ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the former Yugoslavia
3. Supreme Court and religious freedom
4. Southern Baptists and homosexuality
5. Decline in denominational giving (as percentage of income)
Gayle White,Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
1. The Religious Right at the grassroots
2. Supreme Court and church/state relations
3. Restructuring of mainline Protestantism
4. Debate on cultural morality
5. Competition to evangelize Eastern Europe and former USSR
Have something to add about this? See something we missed? Share your feedback here.
Our digital archives are a work in progress. Let us know if corrections need to be made.
Annual & Monthly subscriptions available.
- Print & Digital Issues of CT magazine
- Complete access to every article on ChristianityToday.com
- Unlimited access to 65+ years of CT’s online archives
- Member-only special issues
- Learn more
More from this Issue
Read These Next
- TrendingAmerican Christians Should Stand with Israel under AttackWhile we pray for peace, we need moral clarity about this war.
- From the MagazineFractured Are the PeacemakersA Christian reconciliation group in Israel and Palestine warned that war would come. Now the war threatens their relevance.العربيةFrançais
- Editor's PickBiblical Literacy in a Postliterate AgeWe must always be people of the Word, but we’ll have to reimagine deep engagement with Scripture.