Volume 46, Number 2
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"Recent comments on religion and politics, self-defense for clergy, and atheists in Sunday School"
Ted Olsen
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"Now that Napster is all but dead, Christian music companies are the first to try its model for profit"
Ted Olsen
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"Freedom Gold has not yet mined much in Liberia, but it is already producing critical media attention for its founder."
Chuck Fager
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"The District of Columbia Baptist Convention may lose $475,000 in annual support because of differences with the North American Mission Board"
Ken Walker
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"In churches where missions is a program, it is the first thing cut in hard times"
Christianity Today Editorial
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Zambia is missionary David Livingstone's greatest legacy. But this Christian nation isn't always heaven on earth
Ted Olsen
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"Terrorism, drug wars, and international politics are just a few of the challenges confronting today's mission pilots"
Wendy Murray Zoba
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"As aid workers in Afghanistan went from defendants under draconian law to hostages in a war, their loved ones at home also underwent a trial"
Jeff M. Sellers
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"As we grow in knowledge of ourselves, God's grace allows us to resist habitual sin and grow in self-control"
Frederica Mathewes-Green
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"Despite an embarrassing scandal and widespread irritation with his methods, Jesse Jackson continues to be an influential voice in the church. Should evangelicals listen?"
Edward Gilbreath
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Many discussions about openness theology assume that human freedom and divine freedom are pretty much the same thing. They're not
Geoffrey Bromiley
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"Cloud Ten moves beyond end-times fare, and The Count of Monte Cristo brings swashbuckling into a new millennium"
Douglas LeBlanc