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December 1998

December 02, 1998
For two decades, Southern Baptists have been so busy fighting about the Bible that they've...

November 1998

November 25, 1998
He always took the early, slow train from Oxford, so he could say his prayers...
November 18, 1998
It didn't take long for Phil Vischer to create the following prime directive for his...
November 11, 1998
Two years ago, Christians were sold as slaves for as little as $15 in Southern...
November 04, 1998
It's another day at the mall multiplex, where hip witches are looking for love, Oprah's...

October 1998

October 28, 1998
She likes pipe organs, chants, kneeling, candles and incense.He wants to sway in the aisle...
October 21, 1998
Try to imagine what would have happened if Bill Clinton was a world-famous pastor.What if...
October 14, 1998
Before he answered the Los Angeles Times' questions, the Rev. Oral Roberts wanted to ask...
October 07, 1998
Just because the early church taught that certain doctrines were true doesn't mean the modern...

September 1998

September 30, 1998
The Rev. Charles Sineath wasn't surprised when a close friend responded to a cancer diagnosis...
September 23, 1998
The Ten Commandments are so hot, right now, that its amazing some Beltway politico hasn't...
September 16, 1998
It would be hard to imagine two more radically different evangelicals than Dr. James Dobson...
September 09, 1998
The images of debris and death from Swissair 111 are all too familiar, as are...
September 02, 1998
A new year has begun at America's 3,500 or so institutions of higher learning, which...

August 1998

August 26, 1998
Caught in a web of news and rumors about sex games so sordid that journalists...
August 19, 1998
The Rt. Rev. Richard Holloway was so upset he did something sophisticated church leaders rarely...
August 12, 1998
CANTERBURY - As television crews zoomed in, a Nigerian bishop and a British gay-rights activist...
August 05, 1998
When a technology enters a culture, it quickly spreads until it changes everything -- like...

July 1998

July 29, 1998
The Christian's Guide to Small Arms site shoots straight with World Wide Web users, offering...
July 22, 1998
Among the few belongings that survived the Romanovs' last days, anti-Bolshevik troops found a book...
July 15, 1998
Father Thomas Johnston of Arkansas is without a doubt the world's most controversial missionary, at...
July 08, 1998
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas returned home to Roman Catholicism two years ago and, more...
July 01, 1998
The pastors who wear Roman collars believe they can see the wreckage caused by pornography...

June 1998

June 24, 1998
Anglicanism begins and ends with The Book of Common Prayer.Obviously, this volume is full of...
June 17, 1998
WASHINGTON -- Viewed from their balconies, the pews in traditional black churches looked like waves...
June 10, 1998
WASHINGTON -- The train from New York City was jammed as Matthew Chancey traveled back...
June 03, 1998
Try to imagine what would happen if the following scene took place in a "Religions...

May 1998

May 27, 1998
It was time, once again, for a political leader to step to the microphone and...
May 20, 1998
WASHINGTON -- Whenever a preacher starts getting personal, picky and downright pushy, Bible Belt folks...
May 13, 1998
As the old saying goes, for most American newspapers a front-page religion story has three...
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