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December 1998

December 02, 1998

Texas Baptists face the sex wars

For two decades, Southern Baptists have been so busy fighting about the Bible that they've...

November 1998

November 25, 1998

Walking with C.S. Lewis

He always took the early, slow train from Oxford, so he could say his prayers...

November 18, 1998

Veggie sales, Veggie sales

It didn't take long for Phil Vischer to create the following prime directive for his...

November 11, 1998

Slavery, faith & the marketplace

Two years ago, Christians were sold as slaves for as little as $15 in Southern...

November 04, 1998

Tuning in signals from Hollywood Heaven

It's another day at the mall multiplex, where hip witches are looking for love, Oprah's...

October 1998

October 28, 1998

Worship Wars 1998

She likes pipe organs, chants, kneeling, candles and incense.He wants to sway in the aisle...

October 21, 1998

What if Clinton was a famous pastor?

Try to imagine what would have happened if Bill Clinton was a world-famous pastor.What if...

October 14, 1998

Hey reporter! Are you a believer?

Before he answered the Los Angeles Times' questions, the Rev. Oral Roberts wanted to ask...

October 07, 1998

Can today’s church veto the saints?

Just because the early church taught that certain doctrines were true doesn't mean the modern...

September 1998

September 30, 1998

United Methodists: Breaking up is hard to do

The Rev. Charles Sineath wasn't surprised when a close friend responded to a cancer diagnosis...

September 23, 1998

Moses, Dr. Laura and the rabbi

The Ten Commandments are so hot, right now, that its amazing some Beltway politico hasn't...

September 16, 1998

Dobson and Wallis sing a rare duet

It would be hard to imagine two more radically different evangelicals than Dr. James Dobson...

September 09, 1998

After the crash: Where is God?

The images of debris and death from Swissair 111 are all too familiar, as are...

September 02, 1998

The Meaning of Life 101

A new year has begun at America's 3,500 or so institutions of higher learning, which...

August 1998

August 26, 1998

Clinton & that loaded word ‘sin’

Caught in a web of news and rumors about sex games so sordid that journalists...

August 19, 1998

Lambeth II — The threat of new missionaries

The Rt. Rev. Richard Holloway was so upset he did something sophisticated church leaders rarely...

August 12, 1998

Lambeth: Doctrine and diversity

CANTERBURY - As television crews zoomed in, a Nigerian bishop and a British gay-rights activist...

August 05, 1998

The church, technology and birth control

When a technology enters a culture, it quickly spreads until it changes everything -- like...

July 1998

July 29, 1998

Ship of Fools: Laughing or crying?

The Christian's Guide to Small Arms site shoots straight with World Wide Web users, offering...

July 22, 1998

The prayers of the Romanovs

Among the few belongings that survived the Romanovs' last days, anti-Bolshevik troops found a book...

July 15, 1998

Anglicanism’s most controversial missionary

Father Thomas Johnston of Arkansas is without a doubt the world's most controversial missionary, at...

July 08, 1998

A Catholic critic — on the right

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas returned home to Roman Catholicism two years ago and, more...

July 01, 1998

Facing the ‘fantasy world’ of media

The pastors who wear Roman collars believe they can see the wreckage caused by pornography...

June 1998

June 24, 1998

Copernicus. Galileo. Newton. Darwin. Freud. Spong?

Anglicanism begins and ends with The Book of Common Prayer.Obviously, this volume is full of...

June 17, 1998

Big hats and black-church tradition

WASHINGTON -- Viewed from their balconies, the pews in traditional black churches looked like waves...

June 10, 1998

Women and children first

WASHINGTON -- The train from New York City was jammed as Matthew Chancey traveled back...

June 03, 1998

Who can be excused from class?

Try to imagine what would happen if the following scene took place in a "Religions...

May 1998

May 27, 1998

Define ‘marriage.’ Please.

It was time, once again, for a political leader to step to the microphone and...

May 20, 1998

Reggie White sacks a purple dinosaur

WASHINGTON -- Whenever a preacher starts getting personal, picky and downright pushy, Bible Belt folks...

May 13, 1998

Martin Marty remains on call

As the old saying goes, for most American newspapers a front-page religion story has three...