Volume 45, Number 4

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Former and current Jehovah Witnesses question a policy they say discourages leaders from reporting abuse.
Corrie Cutrer

Despite tourism boom, churches in Bahamas find no shortage of people in need.
By Suzanne Lewis-Johnson in Nassau

Russia registers more than 9,000 religious organizations, but number is only 60 percent of religious groups in 1990s.
Beverly Nickles

Proposed bill would grant Christian women the right to ask for divorce if their husbands commit adultery.
Manpreet Singh in New Delhi

Socially responsive investors question AT&T's trafficking in hardcore smut.
A Christianity Today Editorial

For my father-in-law, his place in the order of Creation was no diminishment, but the beginning of wisdom.
Walter Wangerin Jr

God's love, mercy, passion, compassion, grief, and anger are chiseled down to two words
Mark Buchanan & Photos by Adam Buchanan

When it comes to relating to the Jewish people, should we dialogue, cooperate, or evangelize?
Richard J. Mouw

'Third-Culture Kids' may be one of the most neglected, and most influential, unreached people groups
DA Fletcher

International schools, though relatively little known, teach children of some of the future's most influential people. Some alumni:
Andy Fletcher

In a consumer society, there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addictions and the prisoners of envy
Ivan Illich

Are mentally challenged adults whose intellectual age is probably that of a 1-year-old sheltered under God's salvation?
Lewis B. Smedes

The best-selling novelist describes the tormented childhood that shaped his imagination.
Jeremy Lott