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More money or more strings?

A homeschooling innovation brings opportunity and danger

Drowning in red

Historic Christian colleges like Nyack College are facing financial crises that are forcing big changes. Some haven’t survived

Life after chess

Former New York public-school student Alex Lenderman, one of the world’s top chess players, mastered the game and embraced the Christian faith in the process

Blaine, Blaine, short-sighted briber from the state of Maine

State constitutional roadblocks to school choice grew out of anti-Catholic hostility and the myth of educational neutrality

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SILENT NO MORE

THE MODERN MARTYRS: The international crisis of religious persecution takes no break as Washington deliberates its response

Hot air on warming

One cheer for President Clinton on the greenhouse treaty

ECFA suspends mission over fundraising letters

Financial watchdog says it's serious about truth with donors

Canadian cold front

Government initiatives against Christianity on the rise

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Mission impossible I was saddened to see the negative piece on mission fundraising ("But it's for a good cause," Sept. 27). If we dispense with Reid and his cookie-cutter fundraising letter...

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Ignoble prize The Nobel prize for literature went to Italian playwright Dario Fo, an unrepentant Marxist whose plays satirize capitalism, Italian politics, and religion. His drama We Can't ...

Books

Books: Revisiting the apostle

What role did Paul of Tarsus actually play in the establishment of the Christian faith in the first-century Roman milieu? Was he the faithful disciple of the Lord Jesus, a missionary to the gentil...

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TV: Shocking the flock

The difference between good TV and bad TV," said Michael Medved recently while guest-hosting the Rush Limbaugh show, "is the difference between good heroin and bad heroin." Two new ABC programs sh...

Video

Video: Reformation on video

For parents who've tolerated their last Halloween and are ready to substitute an annual Reformation Day instead, Gateway Films and Vision Video have put together a package to help move children ou...

Movies & TV

Film: 100 years ago today

Movies that recreate the 19th century, such as Sense and Sensibility and the Merchant & Ivory franchise, have a strong appeal today. The honorable characters, formal manners, and elevated lang...

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This Week

The nation's top doc? Late in the Washington news cycle on Friday, Oct. 17, President Clinton quietly vetoed yet again legislation overwhelmingly approved by Congress to ban partial-birth a...

Quotables

In the David-versus-Goliath battle between the taxpayer and the IRS, David is about to get a bigger slingshot. House Ways and Means Committee chairman BILL ARCHER (R-Texas), on a House refo...