Good News Magazine: March - April 2005

An editorial note from Scott Ashley

The Indian Ocean tsunami stunned people the world over. How can we make sense of this horror? Does God's Word give us any guidance?

Man-made catastrophes are a little easier to explain because we can identify the cause.

What is the ultimate fate of the almost 300,000 men, women and children who lost their lives in the Indian Ocean tsunami?

Where do major catastrophes like the Indian Ocean tsunami fit in the long train of prophetic events?

World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Iraq. Only one nation has fought in all these wars from beginning to end—Australia.

Redemption is rightly bound up with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. How should we understand the scope of its meaning?

Jesus called His Father "Lord of heaven and earth" (Matthew 11:25). Think about what those words mean. They tell us that the Father is the Supreme...

Moses leading Israel out of Egypt prefigured the Christian's redemption from sin.

The actual chronology of Jesus's death and resurrection.

The Old Testament describes many ceremonies that sound quite odd to us. Yet everything God does is for a purpose. The purpose of one ceremony, the...

Over time, the Catholic church made concessions to pagan customs and brought them into the christian faith, changing the face of mainstream...

A Newsweek report notes that more scholarship has been devoted to the study of end-time biblical prophecies in the past 30 years than in the previous...

It's been said that the relationship between human beings and horses is one of the most ancient and mutually beneficial relationships between man and...

Ten EU member countries will be holding referenda to ratify the new European constitution. All others will ratify it in their parliaments. Hungary and...

According to BBC News, "Germany's unemployment rose above the psychologically important level of five million last month."

Three years before 9/11, columnist and author Peggy Noonan wrote of "nuts with nukes"—dictators and terrorists to whom the normal processes of...

We're hearing less and less of the United Nations since the Iraq war, perhaps primarily due to the routing of many insurgents, alleged UN graft and...

How bad is anti-semitism in Europe? Back in 2002 Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote that "in Europe, it is not very safe to be a Jew...

We don't often think of Fiji, Tonga, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and other small Pacific island nations as having serious economic and...

Returns on the watershed Iraqi election differed. Well over half of all eligible Iraqis voted, which of itself is astounding considering the...

Health officials in New York City have issued warnings about two new strains of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) affecting homosexual and bisexual...

In a surprising discovery, Israeli archaeologists, checking a site before the Jerusalem municipality started installing a sewage pipe, stumbled upon...

For years scholars have puzzled over a curious detail mentioned in the Gospel of John concerning Jewish burial practices in the first century. In...

In December 2004, a famous atheist and academic startled the scholarly world when he made the announcement that he had accepted the existence of God...

On Jan. 13, a federal judge ordered the removal of disclaimer stickers placed on high school biology textbooks in Cobb County, Georgia, that encourage...

Jesus Christ plainly said He would be entombed for three days and three nights. Can this be reconciled with a "Good Friday" crucifixion and burial and...

Here are 16 points we should keep in mind concerning the biblical perspective on tragedies, regardless of their scale or circumstances.