July/August 1998
(Volume 31, Number 4)

News Stories

'Building Community Among Strangers' rejected

Demonstration disrupts General Assembly meeting

College women's network sparks intense debate

GA defeats attempt to remove 'fidelity and chastity' from Constitution

OneByOne ministers at Charlotte Assembly

Stamford church barred from installing openly gay elder

Covenant Network claims some support across PCUSA

Douglas Oldenburg elected 210th GA moderator

Bohl calls for civility at Covenant Network luncheon

Moderator declares official news report 'erroneous'

Detterick confirmed as GAC executive director

Orthodox churches may boycott worship at WCC Assembly

New catechisms approved by General Assembly

GA rejects call for new translation of Heidelberg Catechism

Charlotte pastor reminds Presbyterians of priorities

Multiculturalism celebrated at General Assembly Sunday worship

210th General Assembly news briefs

Assembly orders PHEWA to open its membership

Assembly delays policy on 'self-determined death'

Commissioners approve purity standard for youth literature

Preschool sexuality guides conflict with PCUSA standards

General Assembly denies expansion of PJC power

Assembly issues additional authoritative interpretation

Committee to review implementation of abortion policy

'Freedom from Religious Persecution Act' approved by House of Representatives

Seminary professor proposes 'filling an empty church'

EPC clerk proposes 'cooperation without compromise'

Resources For Congregations
Knox Fellowship: 2,000 helping hands for evangelism

Mission Opportunities For Congregations
Exiled prince trains Christians for return to homeland


Presbyterian Leader's Forum

A message from the Stated Clerk

A message from the Chairman of the Presbyterian Lay Committee


Editorials

Point of order

Sabbatical

Rebuilding community

From reason to rhetoric


Book Reviews

Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul, by J.P. Moreland

C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer: Lessons for a New Century from the Most Influential Apologists of Our Time, by Scott R. Burson and Jerry L. Walls

Briefly Noted

Systematic Theology: Volume 3, by Wolfhart Pannenberg

Essays in Postfoundationalist Theology, by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen

The Mystery of God: Karl Barth and the Postmodern Foundations of Theology, by William Stacy Johnson


Foundations of the Faith

The Ten Commandments: Do not misuse God's name


Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor


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