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March / April 1999
(Volume 32, Number 2)

News Stories

Covenant Network to help presbytery defy constitution

NNPCW criticized; funding increase urged

Renewal leaders respond to NNPCW

‘Fidelity and chastity’ will be debated at GA

GA to have last word on funding radical college ministry

PCUSA dollars used to undermine biblical values

Moderator candidates answer Layman questions
Frank Diaz
Freda A. Gardner
Charles W. Kim
Walter J. Ungerer
GAC News Briefs
Church Growth Strategy report defines evangelism
GAC creates Initiative Team to address religious freedom
PCUSA has almost 2,000 employees
Bicentennial Fund report repeats a woeful tale
PCUSA 1998 income exceeds expectations
Loan program gets $1 million
Toward the Renewal of the Churches
“Word and Spirit: Toward the Renewal of the Churches,” a conference sponsored by Reformation & Revival Ministries, “for those prayerfully interested in renewal in mainline churches.”

PLC board member offers ‘An open letter to our readers’

Detterick lists concerns and treasures

Hudson River Presbytery OKs same-sex ‘holy union’

Proposed realignment of PCUSA bureaucracy sparks debate at GAC

COCU is changing its name and playing the race card

National Day Of Prayer is May 6

Presbytery PJC allows Stamford First to install gay elder

Jesus: Savior or shaman?

Former Senator to speak to Presbyterian Men

Korean-American presbyteries hope to build 200 churches

Former Muslim delivers Sprunt Lectures at Union Seminary

Resources for Congregations
‘Therefore go and make disciples of all nations’
Renewal groups help Presbyterians fulfill the Great Commission


Knox Fellowship trains Presbyterians for evangelism

Literacy classes use the Bible to teach reading

Philip Endeavor offers a model of ‘listening evangelism’

Editorials
Evangelism: Telling the good news

In Memorium W. Frank Harrington

Fidelity and integrity?

What’s the rush?

Presbyterian Leader's Forum

A message from the stated clerk

A message from the moderator

A message from the chairman of the Presbyterian Lay Committee

Editor’s note: The Layman did not receive a contribution from the GAC Chair for this issue.

Book Reviews

Not ‘Til I Have Done
By Elizabeth Achtemeier

The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
By Jeremy Rifkin

In Whose Image: Faith, Science, and the New Genetics
By John P. Burgess

Foundations of the Faith

The Ten Commandments: You shall not commit adultery


Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor


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