A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
October surprise
Eighteen months after the International Bible Society announced it had abandoned its "inclusive-language" Bible project, fresh supplies of the gender-neutral NIrV Bible are back in circulation.
Sidebar
A Bible for evangelicals: The genesis of the NIV In 1965, an informal group of scholars from a variety of evangelical denominatio...
Gender neutralized
Wycliffe backs out of February gender-language conference; organizers pull the plug
Mitch cripples Honduras, but Christians offer hope
Snapshots from the eye of a deadly storm
How you can help
Many organizations are providing relief to victims of Hurricane Mitch. These groups are all in good repute but WORLD has not screened th...
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Hamlet or Betty the Yeti
A drama professor from Arizona State University has been fired for teaching plays so offensive, so outrageous, so dangerous that the faculty will not allow them in the classroom. What was it, exac...
Culture
Electronic reformation?
Electronics book wars There's a war going on for control of what you read. Not content, sales. Three players-Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Borders Group-are fighting for control of the bo...
Books
Beltway Books: Searching instead for an agenda-neutral Bible
Evangelicals are arguing with one another over Bible translation. Some recent translations have gone "gender-neutral," replacing "he" and "man" with "they" and "humankind" or similar words with ne...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
Hey Big Spender How much will it cost businesses to prepare computers for Y2K? Publicly traded companies are now required to report these costs to the Securities and Exchange Commission, an...
Quotables
Quotables
I would consider taking business class, particularly with the present difficult times for the economy. Andrew Leung, a Hong Kong official in the Chinese puppet government, in the South Chin...