Christianity Today

November 16, 1998

Volume 42, Number 13

December 7 December 7, 1998
November 16
October 26 October 26, 1998

Now That We're Global: Greetings from the worldwide fellowship. When we asked international evangelical leaders to report on the state of their church, we heard not just cold stats, but flesh-and-blood believers with attitude.

Cover Story

Cover Story

It’s a Small Church After All

Mark Hutchinson

Globalization is changing how Christians do ministry.

Features

Jesus Can Still Mean Jail

The plight of Vietnam’s 700,000 evangelical Christians.

Wrestling with Success

Antonio Carlos Barro

The Shroud of Turin: Cloaked in Mystery

Those who believe it is Jesus’ shroud point to features on it that seem unique to Jesus’ death, including pathological ones.

Classic & Contemporary Excerpts from November 16, 1998

Born November 29, 1898, Clive Staples Lewis in his lifetime gave us many writings that explicate the Christian faith and walk. This page of Reflections commemorates the centennial of his birth.

The Great Escape

Peter T. Chattaway

For Truman Burbank, freedom means abandoning his false though perfect world.

The Calling of Elmer Yazzie

Karen L. Mulder

For this Calvinist Navajo, art is not a part of life, it is life itself.

Reality Is for Real

Why we can’t give up on objectivity, even though it is decidedly uncool.

Stripping Jesus of His Western Garb

By an Asian Christian who wishes to remain anonymous.

World Growth at 19 Million a Year

The Pentecostal World Conference “offers Pentecostals an opportunity to be a unifying force in a divided world.”

Latin Americans Target Continent

Rusty Wright in San Jose, Costa Rica

Gang Rape of Nuns Stirs Outrage

by Alex Buchan, Compass Direct

Rain Forest Churches Brave Uncertain Future

Kathi Henry in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Stripping the Darkness

A couple’s spiritual quest turns them into searchlights exposing family and community secrets.

A Hidden Mission

Michael G. Maudlin, Managing Editor

Unification Church: Inside Moon’s Unhappy Family

James A. Beverley in New York

Church founder’s ex-daughter-in-law pens grim tome about life on the inside.

Baby Boomers for Hire

Sell-out audience crowds first-time missions recruitment event.

Food Ministry Seeks Bigger Broader Impact

Joel Kilpatrick in Springfield, Missouri

Editorial

The Truth About Lies

For a nation in denial, it’s time to tell it like it is.

Editorial

If It’s Too Good to Be True …

Those who are foolish in small things often get caught being foolish in big things.

Reform Us Again

Roland Werner

News

Wire Story

Centuries-old Treasures Pilfered

Ross Herbert in Lalibela; Religion News Service

Wire Story

Four Bodies Achieve ‘Full Communion’

Religion News Service

Views

Poster Boy for Postmodernism

Strohmeyer told police he strangled the little girl by twisting her neck the way he had seen in movies.

Additional Articles

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