This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 6 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org According to a May 2004 report by the U.S. Department of Justice, by midyear 2003 there were more than 1.3million persons in [...]

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume28, number2(2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Thousands of his devoted supporters see Joseph Kony, rebel leader of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army, as a prophet of God who is working to fight [...]

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume30, number3 (2007). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org The four-decade relationship between American evangelicals and Witness Lee’s local churches/Living Stream Ministry1 has not been one of abundant harmony or trust. Considering the [...]

This article first appeared in the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number2 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org The pebbles forgive me, the trees forgive me. So why can’t you forgive me? — from the song “Anyone Else but You,” by the Moldy [...]

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume29, number1 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Goth (or gothic) culture has been around for about 25 years, yet those who belong to it remain misunderstood. Goths wear dark clothing, which, together with their sometimes [...]

This article first appeared in the From the Editor column of the Christian Research Journal, volume29, number4 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org In the previous issue of the Journal we were pleased to feature Daniel Hoffman’s primary source research on the Crusades. My From the [...]

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number4 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Wading through the entire emerging church milieu is incredibly complicated. In this article I seek to provide a simple but accurate means of navigating the emerging church highway [...]

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume29, number5 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org In the Episcopal Church’s three-decade discussion about homosexuality and the church, conservatives and liberals alike have often said that the debate is about far [...]

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume29, number1 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org A renewal of evangelical values within mainline Protestant denominations may seem unlikely amid the current atmosphere of religious liberalism, yet leaders of various renewal [...]

Hal Lindsay couldn’t have planned it better. After three decades of largely fruitless warnings about “The End,” a real-life crisis — with endtimes possibilities — is seemingly at our doorsteps. It’s Y2K, a computer glitch some claim will take out electricity and phones for weeks, starting January 1, and send the world’s economies through the [...]