Contents of March-April 1998
(Volume 31, Number 2)

News Stories
Amendment A soundly defeated

Building Community reveals a house divided

GA moderator candidates answer three Layman questions

Women's advisory committee attacks U.S. military policy

Bicentennial Fund campaign ends, reaching less than half of goal

$530,000 from per capita proposed for official publication

GA stands firm against Poethig's plea to keep position

GAC approves salary range for its new executive director

Accountable relationships committee issues recommendations

General Assembly nominating committee sees candidates

GAC staff told to pay its own way to ReImagining reunion

Milwaukee's Covenant of Dissent ruled "null and void"

Rosemary Radford Reuther gives 1998 Sprunt Lectures

Additional grievances filed against Union Seminary professor

Some good news about the PCUSA

Evangelical Pastors' Conference update

News from around the Church

Dutch minister asks for acceptance of pedophiles

Minneapolis ministers suspended

Ben Lacy Rose's sermon at his daughter's funeral

National Day of Prayer

Gay minister resigns from church


Presbyterian Leader's Forum

A message from the Stated Clerk

A message from the GAC chair

A message from the Moderator

A message from the Chairman of the Lay Committee


Editorials

The Church has spoken

"…The determination to follow Scripture is no sideline sentiment; it is the deeply held conviction of mainstream Presbyterianism. We call on all Presbyterians to honor that decision…and to obey it"


In Memoriam, Lesslie Newbigin

Lesslie Newbigin knew what it was to be "multicultural" decades before postmodern pluralists impoverished that word.


Slippery slopes


Trusting the whole people of God

Book Reviews

Covenant & Commitments, by Max L. Stackhouse

Faith & Understanding, by Paul Helm, and God, Reason & Theistic Proofs, by Stephen P. Davis

The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, by Robert Banks and R. Paul Steven and Dictionary of the Later New Testaments & Its Developments, by Ralph P. Martin and Peter H. Davids


Foundations of the Faith

The First Commandment


Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

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