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

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

Comic Relief: Dear John the Evangelist

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

West Bank: Persecution Reports Unfounded

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

Clinton Names Seiple to New Post

Clinton Names Seiple to New Post

Evangelical Released from Prison

Evangelical Released from Prison

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.

China Mission: More than ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy’

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

Playing the Grace Card

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

Karla Faye’s Final Stop

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

In the Word: What’s Wrong with Spirituality?

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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