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November/December 2000
(Volume 33, Number 6)


News Stories

Peacemaking speaker was ‘out of bounds’

Bohl assails renewal groups

‘Condi’ Rice: Presbyterian with faith, political mettle

‘What’s the big deal about Jesus?’

Speakers cite ‘errors’ in interpretation

Colorado woman first candidate for moderator

Clipped comments

Ranking PCUSA programs draws support and criticism

Separation survey sent to churches

Trinitarian language is ‘battleground’

World Reformed Fellowship is born

Addressing gay issues requires truth, relevance and love

Briefly brief reports as follows:
Declaration affirms Biblical teaching on sexual morality
Colson says data shows improvement
White Sox manager: God bigger than game
Catholic document: Protestants ‘defective’
Mission project assists hurricane-ravaged village
Culture-accommodating PCUSA fails to fulfill ‘great ends of Church’

United Church of Canada rescinds Biblical standards on marriage

Marine/pastor says resolution against Naval base one-sided

One of America’s leading portraitists
Sanden’s works include Christ, Graham, Shea

Breaking 20-minute barrier a milestone
Fields is a leader in resurgent congregation

Ex-inmates in their midst become
Brothers in Christ and in carpentry

Correctional center helps residents attend church

NCC must cut costs by 38.4 percent for 2001

Relief group, NCC are now two organizations

After one-time gift, Methodists will reduce NCC contributions

NCC wants to use poverty issue to forge new ecumenical alliance

NAE faces filtering task when mainline denominations apply

NAE’s statement of faith

Foundations of the Faith
The Lord’s Prayer: Who art in heaven


Editorials & Columns

Editorials

Some sacred cows are being gored

God provides ecumenical alternatives

Columns

In defense of my friends
Robert L. Howard, Chairman, Presbyterian Lay Committee


A Christmas contradiction
Parker T. Williamson, Executive Editor, The Presbyterian Layman


Other opinions

Spiritual will
From the Banquet, Mom

Stated Clerk's column

Moderator's column

Letters to the editor

Book Reviews & Column

Column: Making books
By Robert P. Mills, Editor of PLC Publications

How Now Shall We Live?
Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey

Playing with Fire: How the Bible Ignites Change in Your Soul
Walt Russell

The Children’s Treasury of Virtues
William J. Bennett, ed.

Ascension and Ecclesia: On the Significance of the Doctrine of the Ascension for Ecclesiology and Christian Cosmology
Douglas Farrow

The Silent Revolution and the Making of Victorian England
Herbert Schlossberg

Reference and Commentaries
Readings in the Philosophy of Religion
Kelly James Clark, ed.

Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions
A. Scott Moreau, ed.

Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon
Peter Gorday, ed.

The First and Second Letters to Timothy
Jerome D. Quinn and William C. Wacker

Faith and Science
Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology
William A. Dembski

Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism
Robert T. Pennock

New Editions
Out of the Salt Shaker and into the World
Rebecca Manley Pippert

Know Why You Believe
Paul Little

A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence
Jeffrey Burton Russell

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