Good News Magazine: March - April 2001

Are we equipped to decide right and wrong for ourselves? The record of history isn't encouraging, so is it time we looked somewhere else?

The First Amendment went through extensive discussions and nearly a dozen drafts. They show the clear intent of the founding fathers-that they didn't...

The Pledge of Allegiance, long recited by U.S. schoolchildren, acknowledges the United States as "one nation under God." But does God have a place in...

A titillating television show pushes the bounds of accepted morality even further while presenting only the seamy-and steamy-side of the story.

In many ways 2000 was not a good year. What does that tell us about where the world is headed?

Why does anyone commit the ultimate act of violence against another human being? What have been the consequences of one of history's most unjust...

John's Gospel details two instances in which individuals were resurrected from the dead. The first astonished its witnesses, but the second...

How did worship of an ancient god and goddess come to be associated with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ?

The Bible prophesies a time when two earthshaking events will combine to overwhelm humanity. What are these two events, these prophetic storms?

"People who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that the cow will back up to them."

According to Foreign Affairs magazine, several nations besides the United States possess biological weapons: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, China, North...

Young children are virtual learning machines, eagerly absorbing information from everything around them. Researchers have discovered that parents play...

The Scotsman recently observed that "Christianity is clinging on in Britain-but perhaps for not too much longer." What's behind this grim assessment?

According to an article in The Washington Times, "most Americans believe the Bible is more factual than newspapers, but find their daily newspaper...

Indonesia is a far-flung nation of 17,000 islands. It began as a modern state in 1949, emerging from the Dutch colonial regime. It has a long history...

Los Angeles Times health writer Julie Marquis tells us that "syphilis, a centuries-old human scourge, sustains itself these days on a noxious brew of...

Prussia-a nation that was part of what is today eastern Germany-was dissolved by the Allies as a country shortly after World War II because it was...

"... HIV infections are disturbingly common among gay men of all races in their 20s, especially considering that they grew up knowing how AIDS spreads...

According to a study conducted for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, "sexual content on television has risen sharply since 1997, showing up in...