Index to January-February 1998
(Volume 31, Number 1)

NEWS STORIES

Syracuse GA's Amendment A trails in early voting

Stated Clerk rallies troops to defend the Syracuse GA

Stated Clerk supports right to prayer

PCUSA downplays plight of Chinese Christians

National church remembers the persecuted

Poethig is denied second term as CMD director

PRRMI offers 'A Covenant of Faithfulness to Jesus Christ'

Future funding uncertain for official publication

Seminarians pose pension problems

Nine Presbyterians arrested at School of Americas

Apartheid activist, PCUSA favorite, to face trial

Evangelism group rejects study

Evangelical women gather for Washington Summit '97

Presbyterian Forum: PCUSA evangelicals on the Internet

Symposium to honor C.S. Lewis

Houston congregation declares 'It's time to soar'

General Secretary defends WCC's Cold War record

Missions conference expresses hope; asks, 'Which Gospel?'

The LEPERS keep hoping

Union Seminary receives warning

Rosemary Radford Reuther at Union Seminary

CENTER SECTION

Lay Committee: Raise the standard in the PCUSA

Profile: Robert L. Howard, Lay Committee chair

Profile: Parker T. Williamson, executive editor

History: At age 32, The Presbyterian Lay Committee is building on its tradition of calling Presbyterians to a Biblical faith

ANALYSES

New PCUSA study denies Christ to 'build community'

Covenant Network struggles to maintain 'moderate' image'

Five myths, and the realities, of the PCUSA sex debate

PRESBYTERIAN LEADERS' FORUM

A message from the Stated Clerk

A message from the GAC chair

A message from the Moderator

EDITORIALS

The Wager

"…fresh winds are displacing a moribund theology. A generation of clergy that cut its teeth on the Death of God and celebrated the advent of the Secular City is now retiring from leadership."

Building Community by denying Christ

New churchwide study document "should be read by all who are concerned about the PCUSA's present and future theological direction."

Who we are

In response to moderator's criticism, a restatement of The Presbyterian Lay Committee's mission.

BOOK REVIEWS

Subversive Spirituality, by Eugene H. Peterson

Creation and Change, by Douglas Kelly

Limning the Psyche: Explorations in Christian Pschology, by Robert C. Roberts and Mark R. Talbor

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

FOUNDATIONS OF THE FAITH

The Ten Commandments: The Gift of the Law