Cover Story
Features
CHARLES COLSON: Plotting for the Presidency
You always were good at dirty tricks.
BOOKS: Listening to the Pope
What evangelicals can glean from John Paul II.
Modesto Prayers Yield Fruitful Harvest
Church leaders set aside differences for evangelism
Failed Ventures Imperil Fuller Institute
Top officials leave a troubled church-growth ministry
Guns and Bibles
Militia extremists blend God and country into a potent mixture.
ARTICLE: Why Words Matter
A response to James Dobson.
ARTICLE: Why I Use Fighting Words
A response to John Woodbridge’s Culture War Casualties.
ARTICLE: Postcard from Peru
A surging economy and a fiery Pentecostal movement have Peruvian evangelicals rethinking the way they do business-and religion.
Editorial
EDITORIAL: The Lure of the Apocalypse
Christ’s second coming is not just fodder for fanatics, but a nonnegotiable truth.
CONVERSATIONS: Russia’s Pope, Patriarch Aleksii II
Seventy years of state atheism were not able to destroy the deep spiritual roots of our people, says Patriarch Aleksii II.