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May/June 2000
(Volume 33, Number 3)


News Stories

State of the unions
Church court, assembly to review same-sex rites


Texas pastor challenges Kirkpatrick

WCC-backed Mugabe puts Zimbabwe in bloodbath

School of the Americas
PCUSA chaplain refutes criticism


What is truth?

PCUSA stated clerk disavows draft abortion brief prepared in his office

Presbyterians choose ‘honorably,’ and CUiC

Overture would cut PCUSA support of WCC and NCC

Despite revelry, divine conversations take place

Clipped comments

Court stay blocks installation of gay elder

Official PCUSA publication ended

Elder, three pastors run for moderator
Cho believes troubled church needs Jesus Christ

Herndon says he is a ‘big tent’ Presbyterian
Martinez won reprieve from lupus, ‘signed up’
Father’s execution led Rhee into PCUSA ministry

Assembly will consider allowing secret meetings

Presbyterians rally for Jubilee 2000

Scholar learned to love Bible at his grandmother’s knee

Educators seek ordination as ministers

Urbana attracts thousands of Presbyterian students

PCUSA, government-sanctioned China council propose agreement

Church court to hear three major cases

Women’s Forum on Spirituality presents different issues, viewpoints

Convicted pastor may have taken NCC for ‘burned church’ ride

General Assembly Top 10 issues for 2000

Bill Bennett: National ethicist defends evangelicals

Excerpts from Bennett letter to Speaker of the House

Imagine what would happen if the church rubbed against a decaying culture
(Announcement for Bill Bennett's presentation at General Assembly)

Jesus Seminar is laboring to preserve its own ‘myth’

Jesus Seminars scheduled at Ghost Ranch

Member loss rate in PCUSA increases 25.4 pct.

Ministry helps PCUSA families dealing with pregnancy loss

Briefly brief reports as follows:
Evangelical group opens its doors
New Baptist denomination now on paper
Templeton Prize: Physicist-futurist winner of award
Supreme Court: Students must pay for unwanted groups
Environment: Conservatives form stewardship council
Debt Derails Bishop: Atlanta consecration service is canceled
Scholar’s Find Studied: Sodom and Gomorrah at bottom of Dead Sea?

Editorials & Columns

Editorials

Language, emotion and same-sex unions

Freedom is pathway to real Jubilee

Publish it not in Gath …

Guest Commentary: National Council of Castroites
By Cal Thomas


Columns

Robert L. Howard, Chairman, Presbyterian Lay Committee

Parker T. Williamson, Executive Editor, The Presbyterian Layman


Other opinions

Stated Clerk's column

Moderator's column

Letters to the editor


Book Reviews & Column

Thomas F. Torrance: An Intellectual Biography
By Alister E. McGrath

Out Walking: Reflections on Our Place in the Natural World
By John Leax

Column: Making sense of the Trinity
By Robert P. Mills, Director, PLC Publications


Foundations of the Faith

The Lord’s Prayer: Our Father


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