Also: Book of the Year, Topic of the Year; Arnold Toynbee; The Moribund Alliance; A Popping Good Idea; Giving Thanks and Waiting.

Here the argument is for a biblical pacifism on grounds that it is not the Christian task to provide an ethic for society.

A veteran missionary who once lived in China tells what he has been able to learn of the fate of the church there.

Scripture is said to allow believers to engage in armed conflict for the sake of justice.