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

New information-age strategy enables stations to compete with secular counterparts.
by Kenneth D. MacHarg

That hate mail really gave me a first glimpse of the seething giant of racism lurking within the Christian church.

How Mississippi's Bible Belt succumbed so quickly and so completely to the gambling industry.
Tim Stafford

Despite the murders of 120 church leaders, Christians are fighting for peace in one of the world's most violent nations.
David L. Miller in Bogota and Medellin

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

Lifting manhole covers and crawling inside is a first step in a Romanian ministry's gritty outreach.
by Tomas Dixon in Bucharest

Many faiths, not just ours, hold quite specific doctrines and stand at firm disagreement with one another.

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