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Can the Dead Be Converted?
A “choice” for Jesus is not like choosing a meal from a menu.
The Hard Songs of Fernando Ortega
His music takes you where you might not have been planning to go.
In His Steps: How to Become an Apprentice of Jesus
A review of Dallas Willard’s “The Divine Conspiracy.”
Angels of the Night
A Chicago street ministry reaches out to male prostitutes working the street.
Raising Funds While Helping the Poor
Raising Funds While Helping the Poor
Poisonous Gospel
A novelist’s indictment of American missionaries in Africa-and the imperialistic foreign policy they are said to mirror.
A Gospel Gold Mine or a Sinking Pyramid?
Greater Ministries International promises eye-popping returns, but investigators suspect a Ponzi.
Reconciling the World Through Painful Stories
New network focuses on showing how God heals racial, denominational, and gender divisions.
Jonestown: Twenty Years Later, Cults Still Lethal
The horror lingers, yet the number of aberrant groups keeps growing as people seek community.
Editorial
When Church and State Cooperate
There is an opportunity staring the church in the face: charitable choice.
The Coming Secular Apocalypse
How a computer bug is breeding prophecy, plans, and polemics in the church.
The Bible Jesus Read
Without the Old Testament we don’t properly understand God.
The Fatted Faithful
Why the church may be harmful to your waistline.
It’s Hard to Hug a Bully
It is easier to repay evil for evil, but then all you’ve got is evil.
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The Sky Isn’t Falling
The only remaining “ism” is postmodernism. And it is a formalized expression of despair.