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January/February 2001
(Volume 34, Number 1)


News Stories

Layman
Researcher: Vote will ban gay unions

Jesus issue back on council agenda

Graham planted ‘a seed in my soul,’ Bush says

The Confessing Church

Evangelicals: No ‘third-way’ on gay issues

Sterling College-Habitat form alliance

Presbyterian leaders will speak at Lay Committee conference

Gay elder’s installation put on hold

Clipped comments

Layoffs, uncommitted funds used to balance NCC budget

‘I want to apologize’
Backlash targets NCC leader’s flip-flop on marriage

Duke Chapel to allow same-sex unions

Scriptural authority targeted

‘Escape hatch’ proposed

Army school protest, déjà vú

Peggy M. Hedden
Daughter’s birth changed her life

Langdon S. Flowers
He was ‘bread’ to be a businessman

Moehrle, husband of Lay Committee director, dies

49 Presbyterians are in Congress

Presbytery executive is candidate

Author wins endorsement

Building (literally) the church

Christ is focus of Urbana mission convention

How Christians around the world see the PCUSA

Explosion spares church from attack by ‘satanist’

Gay unions
Traditional view of marriage being challenged by culture

Theological paper affirms Lordship of Christ

‘Jesus Christ is the only sure hope for this world’


Briefly brief reports as follows:
This Chad punched himself out
Surveys: Difference between faith walk and talk
Goodbye, neighbors
Showdown looms
Top staff fired
Holiness is issue for foundation

Foundations of the Faith
Hallowed be thy name


Editorials & Columns

Editorials

Scripture and conscience

NCC leader’s strange tack

Columns

A better way than the ‘third way’
Robert L. Howard, Chairman, Presbyterian Lay Committee


On theology and politics
Parker T. Williamson, Executive Editor, The Presbyterian Layman


Other opinions

A sailor’s story
Johnny goes marching home

Stated Clerk's column

Moderator's column

Letters to the editor

Book Reviews & Column

Column: Correctly handling the word of truth
By Robert P. Mills, Editor of PLC Publications

Reading the Bible and the Confessions: The Presbyterian Way
Jack Rogers

Blueprint 21: Presbyterians in the Post-Denominational Era
Robert Thornton Henderson

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