Christianity Today

July 13, 1998

Volume 42, Number 8

August 10 August 10, 1998
July 13
June 15 June 15, 1998

China's Changing Church: Eyewitnesses report looser regulation, ongoing repression, and booming revival. What does this mixed picture mean for the future?

Cover Story

Cover Story

China’s Dynamic Church

Timothy C. Morgan

Eyewitness reports of repression and revival.

Features

Lutherans, Episcopalians Revive Talks

Lutherans, Episcopalians Revive Talks

Brimstone for the Broadminded

The universal religion of humankind is: We develop a good record and give it to God, and then he owes us. The gospel is: we owe God.

Bad Things Still Happen

A concise, clear argument for how God can be both good and omnipotent.

What the Hands Reveal

His Bill of Rights sculpture shows American hands, but Wu Kwan knows his life journey has been shaped by God’s hand.

Miracle Monument

Miracle Monument

Church Nearly Closed After Lawsuit

Willmar Thorkelson

Church Nearly Closed After Lawsuit

One-Year Mission Changes Lives

Randy Frame in Philadelphia

One-Year Mission Changes Lives

Comic Relief: Dear John the Evangelist

Bob Hudson

What if the writer of the Fourth Gospel had to get his work published in today’s market …

House Rejects Prayer Amendment

Christy Gardner

House Rejects Prayer Amendment

West Bank: Persecution Reports Unfounded

Peri Stone in Jerusalem

U.S. team finds that Arab Christians are subject to discrimination, but not life-threatening persecution.

Vote for Peace No Panacea

Mary Cagney

Vote for Peace No Panacea

Riots Traumatize Chinese Christians

by Alex Buchan with Compass Direct in Jakarta

Riots Traumatize Chinese Christians

Clinton Names Seiple to New Post

Clinton Names Seiple to New Post

Evangelical Released from Prison

Deann Alford

Evangelical Released from Prison

First Protestant Church Dedicated

Mike Beeson in Tirana

First Protestant Church Dedicated

Editorial

Lies We’ve Heard Before

The same flawed arguments that legalized abortion are now used to support physician-assisted suicide.

If Christ Be Not Risen…

Scholars debate the meaning of the Resurrection.

Winding Paths Meet—Healing and Faith Find Connection

Cecile S. Holmes in Houston

Healing and faith find a connection.

Patterson’s Election Seals Conservative Control

John W. Kennedy in Salt Lake City

China Mission: More than ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy’

Former NAE president Don Argue calls for engagement, not isolation.

Playing the Grace Card

Spencer Perkins

Christians hold the missing key to racial reconciliation—but it won’t be popular.

Karla Faye’s Final Stop

Virginia Stem Owens

How my hometown deals with being the execution capital of the world.

In the Word: What’s Wrong with Spirituality?

Eugene H. Peterson

The Gospel of Mark’s prescription for spiritual sanity.

Do Demons Have Zip Codes?

The closest things to territorial spirits in the New Testament are angels, not demons.

News

Views

Fear and Faith in the Middle East

As I remember my trip to Lebanon, I think how easy it is to write about the gospel from my serene perch in Colorado.

Whatever Happened to Middle-Class Hypocrisy?

Sorry, Jimmy Olsen; middle-class morality ain’t what it used to be.

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