Christianity Today

August 7, 2000

Volume 44, Number 9

September 4 September 4, 2000
August 7
July 10 July 10, 2000

A Woman's Place: Though today's trends are marginalizing women's missionary impulse, they are still finding ways to serve.

Cover Story

Cover Story

A Woman’s Place

Women reaching women is key to the future of missions.

Features

Oberammergau Overhaul

Changes make the Passion play more sensitive to Jews and more faithful to Scripture.

Joy Amid the Pain

Theologian John Mark Hicks discovered the healing power of lament.

Mainstreaming the Mainline

Methodist evangelicals pull a once ‘incurably liberal’ denomination back toward the orthodox center.

Why Paul Revere’s Message Stuck

A case study in word-of-mouth epidemics.

How to Infect a Culture

Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell thinks churches can learn a lot from the flu bug.

Partial Birth: What Next?

Louisiana’s special assistant attorney general questions well-intentioned lawmakers.

Recipes for the Soul

Phyllis Tickle thinks cookbooks and prayerbooks have a lot in common.

Beyond the Numbers Game

A veteran missiologist and marketing analyst implores the missions community to tabulate less and pray more

Do Good Fences Make Good Baptists?

The SBC’s new Faith and Message brings needed clarity—but maybe at the cost of honest diversity.

No More Hollow Jesus

In focusing so intently on Jesus the man, Peter Jennings’ report missed the big picture.

Updates (has wrong subtitle)

After pregame prayer is barred, educators say they do not need a microphone to pray.

We Met Noah’s Other Children

For years our congregation had done short-term missions projects. Then the Afar of Africa expanded our vision.

Church Planting in Senegal

Clarke wants the African-American church fired up about career mission service.

Prison Ministry in Mozambique

Missionary says women suffer grave injustices.

Christian College Tuition Chart

Christian college costs are lower than the national average, but increasing at a higher rate.

India: Pastors as Gravediggers

Christians hope to break the silence and overcome Asia’s prejudice against people with AIDS.

Nicaragua: Sowing Seed, Growing Churches

Central American farmers gather more than one harvest.

Mexico: Healing the Violence

Presbyterians, Catholics try to reconcile as expulsions persist in Chiapas.

Urban Evangelism: Baptists on the Block

Southern Baptists work and witness in Chicago street outreach.

Public Education: Pregame Prayer Barred

After pregame prayer is barred, educators say they do not need a microphone to pray.

Ecumenism: Time to Kiss and Make Up?

The financially strapped NCC reaches out to evangelicals and Roman Catholics.

Episcopal Church: No Balm in Denver

Episcopalians defer debate over same-sex blessings for another three years.

News

News

Obituary: Presbyterian Bell, 67, Dies

Long-time Dallas pastor and chairman of Christianity Today International’s Board of Directors stricken at Montreat, North Carolina

Views

Silence Is to Dwell In

An hour of quiet is a rare gift, hard to come by in an ordinary week, even for those who seek it.

Salad-Bar Christianity

Too many believers pick and choose their own truths.

Classic & Contemporary Excerpts from August 07, 2000

Quotes on Christian virtues | posted 8/22/00

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