This article originally appeared in print journal July/August 2002.Specialization is one of the main characteristics of both our age and some of our best-known churches. Many big congregations have specialized ...

This article originally appeared in print journal May/June 2002.Messages of hope and redemption took center stage at this year's Grammy Awards telecast, which featured performances by U2, gospel musicians, and ...

This article originally appeared in print journal March/April 2002.About once a year, the folks at Fuller Theological Seminary take temporary leave of their senses and ask me to teach a class called A Christ...

This article originally appeared in print journal Sept./Oct. 2001.Few of us were up watching TV after midnight, August 1, 1981, to witness the debut of a newfangled cable channel called MTV, but before long mos...

This article originally appeared in print journal July/August 2001.In your better moments, you may view young people as the future of the church. But for some of America's largest corporations, young people are...

This article originally appeared in print journal May/June 2001.Thanks to February's Grammy Awards hoopla, thousands of Americans are now finally aware that all those young people talking excitedly about Eminem...

This article originally appeared in print journal March/April 2001.Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a novel about a British youngster who attends a school for witches, was a runaway bestseller in 2000, sell...

This article originally appeared in print journal March/April 2000.During the 1960s, theologians and sociologists predicted the imminent collapse of traditional religion. In his groundbreaking 1965 book, The Se...

This article originally appeared in print journal Nov./Dec. 2000.You might find wise words and plentiful insights from three recently released books that examine the following issues: 1) the ways entertainment ...

This article originally appeared in print journal Jan./Feb. 2000.Conyers, Georgia was a quiet, affluent, seemingly normal Atlanta suburb until a 1996 syphilis outbreak infected 17 residents and forced another 2...