In This Issue
America's religious communities and the battle over government.
The church consensus is solidifying on the need to save the planet.
Taking the church's temperature on health care.
A biblical perspective on the role of government.
Megachurch leaders Kay Waren and Lynne Hybels confront the challenges of HIV/AIDS, personally and globally.
Columnists
Scripture suggests a clear role for government in ensuring the common good.
Bewilderment is not momentary confusion. It is becoming fundamentally displaced.
We cannot rest on our laurel, once we find out what it is.
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Features
Megachurch leaders Kay Waren and Lynne Hybels confront the challenges of HIV/AIDS, personally and globally.
Forty years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the "Beyond Vietnam" speech, what does it mean for America today? A conversation with historian and scholar Vincent G. Harding.
On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave one of the most important speeches in American history.
Commentary
Columns
Scripture suggests a clear role for government in ensuring the common good.
Bewilderment is not momentary confusion. It is becoming fundamentally displaced.
Culture Watch
There are few words thornier than "evangelical." It's a broad category that includes fundamentalists; it's also a reaction against fundamentalism.
Departments
"The wind blows wherever it pleases." Word?
The scene is played out. We need some Eden!
Were Abba the DJ, He'd spin hymns
To slay.
When it comes to figuring out the appropriate role of the government in addressing our most pressing social ills, opinions among people of faith cross the spectrum: Some say government should play a c





