Good News Magazine: May - June 2001

Table of Contents

12 minutes
The rise and fall of empires isn't a dry subject only for academics and historians- especially when the next collapsing empire may be today's...
4 minutes
"In 1990 there were two superpowers. Now there is only one. Could there soon be another?"
2 minutes
While most people on the Continent itself are either enthused about the prospect of further European integration or at least willing to let it happen...
14 minutes
Europe's experience with Christianity—including the dark side of its abuses and excesses—tells an astonishing and even violent tale. If Bible prophecy...
2 minutes
Europe, home of so much Christian history and tradition, has in the last century grown increasingly agnostic and atheistic.
3 minutes
Shouldn't you look into your Bible to see if your beliefs and practices square with what Jesus Christ and the apostles practiced and taught?
7 minutes
A Serious problem has spread from Britain to Europe and South America with potential worldwide effects. What lessons can we learn from this costly...
13 minutes
Mankind's fundamental philosophy toward survival is driving the world toward disaster. Why do so many follow a way that is so destructive? What can...
8 minutes
A few years ago a Time-magazine poll revealed that 81 percent of Americans believe in a heaven where people live forever with God after they die. But...
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Illustration of Paul and Timothy preaching.
14 minutes
One of the great lessons we learn from Timothy is to practice genuine faith.
6 minutes
What single factor could make the biggest difference in your prospects for a successful career?
2 minutes
British trading-standards officers are investigating a likely source of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
2 minutes
These days the leaders of continental Europe disguise their ambitions less and less.
2 minutes
A potential civil war looms in Macedonia, a small Balkan country bordered by Kosovo, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania. The majority of Macedonia's...
2 minutes
According to government figures, British farmers' incomes dropped by almost 75 percent in five years.
1 minute
Some young women in Eastern European nations, desperate for a better way of life through well-paying jobs, are tricked, then threatened and abducted...
3 minutes
"An astoundingly high level of personal violence separates the United States from every other industrial nation," writes Michael Bellesiles.
1 minute
Lung cancer caused by smoking is now the biggest killer of females with cancer, says United States surgeon general David Satcher.
11 minutes
How accurate are the epistles from an archaeological and historical point of view? We can be thankful that much background information is available...