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World News and Prophecy: August 2001

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Are We Living in the Time of the End?

  • by Gary Petty
A Newsweek report states that there has been more scholarship devoted to the study of end-time biblical prophecies in the past 30 years than there had been in the last 300 years. A series of novels based on these prophecies have sold over nine million copies. Are we nearing the end?

Dancing With Indecency

  • by Cecil Maranville
Are you aware of the latest dance craze? Freak dancing is sweeping the western world, thanks to the promotion MTV has given it over the past several years. Kids and school administrators clash over whether it's acceptable. Parents seem uncertain how to deal with the situation.

The G8 and the Elephant in the Living Room

  • by Melvin Rhodes
Any potential good that might have come from the recent summit of the world's economic giants was overshadowed by the death of two rioters among approximately 100,000 who gathered in Genoa to protest the talks. Widespread international poverty remains unresolved, and the United States grows increasingly unpopular.