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Good News Magazine: January - February 1998

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In This Issue

From the Publisher... Reading the Book

  • by David Hulme
Is it time for you to investigate the literal truth of the world to come? If all things are to be restored, wouldn't you want to live in such a world?

The Scottish Question

  • by Darris McNeely
Scotland has voted to establish its own national parliament. What does this mean for the future of the United Kingdom?

'One of the Lucky Ones'

  • by Monica Kieffer
With so much suffering in the world, can we have hope for a brighter tomorrow?

Why Was David So Bold?

  • by Jerold Aust
David possessed a boldness uncommon, but its source is available to us, too!

World News and Trends- Lost: 100 nuclear weapons

  • by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley
According to a senior advisor to Russian president Boris Yeltsin, an unspecified number of small nuclear weapons were diverted to the KGB in the late 1970s and early 1980s-subsequently being omitted from arms inventories.

World News and Trends: New AIDS treatments falter

  • by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley
In recent years scientists and physicians hailed new AIDS treatments that appeared to halt the virus's advance and bring considerable improvement to patients in advanced stages of the disease.

World News and Trends: War takes 18 million lives since 1945

  • by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley
According to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, nearly 18 million people have been killed in wars and other armed conflicts since the close of World War II. Parts of Africa and Asia have accounted for more than 15 million of these war fatalities. (Source: The Times [London].)

World News and Trends: Drugs spell disaster for more than just users

  • by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley
A recent study in The Journal of the American Medical Association reported that people who are not users of illegal drugs, but who live in households of users, are killed at a rate 11 times higher than those who live in drug-free homes.

World News and Trends: Sidelining the Ten Commandments

  • by John Ross Schroeder, Scott Ashley
Says one British newspaper: "The Ten Commandments have been sidelined by the Church of England ... in a controversial attempt to make services less 'sombre' and more populist. The move has prompted a storm of protest from [conservative] clergy who accuse the bishops of finally surrendering any claim to moral leadership in Britain."