Volume 44, Number 9

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After pregame prayer is barred, educators say they do not need a microphone to pray.
By Deann Alford in Austin, Texas

Christian college costs are lower than the national average, but increasing at a higher rate.
Graphic by Dale Glasgow

Episcopalians defer debate over same-sex blessings for another three years.
By Douglas LeBlanc in Denver

Long-time Dallas pastor and chairman of Christianity Today International's Board of Directors stricken at Montreat, North Carolina
By Jerry L. Van Marter

Presbyterians, Catholics try to reconcile as expulsions persist in Chiapas.
By Kenneth D. MacHarg, with reports from Compass Direct

Christians hope to break the silence and overcome Asia's prejudice against people with AIDS.
By Manpreet Singh in New Delhi

The SBC's new Faith and Message brings needed clarity—but maybe at the cost of honest diversity.
A Christianity Today Editorial

For years our congregation had done short-term missions projects. Then the Afar of Africa expanded our vision.
By Roberta Hestenes

A veteran missiologist and marketing analyst implores the missions community to tabulate less and pray more
By James F. Engel

Methodist evangelicals pull a once 'incurably liberal' denomination back toward the orthodox center.
By Thomas Oden

An hour of quiet is a rare gift, hard to come by in an ordinary week, even for those who seek it.
By Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

By Michael Cromartie

Louisiana's special assistant attorney general questions well-intentioned lawmakers.
By Dorinda C. Bordlee

In focusing so intently on Jesus the man, Peter Jennings' report missed the big picture.
By Darrell Bock

Changes make the Passion play more sensitive to Jews and more faithful to Scripture.
By Paul L. Maier