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Whatever happened to sola fide?

Cover Story Sidebar | Last October I sat in the Memphis Liberty Bowl a Promise Keepers skeptic. Having come to examine the phenomenon firsthand, I thumbed through my program booklet with a critical eye. Printed on a page titled "Core Values" was the PK statement of faith, summed up in five solidly evangelical points. In spite of PK's charismatic flavor, I was basically impressed. I wanted to be impressed. Although the teaching seemed theologically homogenized, I was looking for things to affirm. I left Memphis

Capital promises

Cover Story | After Promise Keepers' huge rally in Washington, D.C., participants vow they'll strive to close the gap between words and actions.

In this issue: "Stand in the gap," Oct. 18, 1997

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Can't kick the quick fix

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Incompetence defense

National |  Clinton stonewalling proves need for independent counsel

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Billboard jungle

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McMillan and husband

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Quite contrary

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Fanning the flames

National |  Newspaper, authorities turn up heat on black Baptist leader

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Lost in the translation

National |  Gender-guideline signers backing away, undermining accord

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What I did on my summer vacation

National |  Wheaton professor attacks Dobson's role in preserving NIV; Dobson defends guidelines

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Quotables

Before he went to Promise Keepers, I had filed for divorce-it was that bad. But something dramatic occurred. I sent a frog and got back a prince. ALETHEA…

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This Week

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Film: Soul food on ice

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Culture Notes

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Religion Notes

Religion |  CAN can sue The Cult Awareness Network (CAN) may pursue its 1995 lawsuit against the Church of Scientology International and the church's Illinois unit, the…

Voices

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Mailbag

No vouchers, please Thank you for your cover story on national assessments and their potential threat to locally controlled education ("This is only a test,"

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Renewing vows

Keeping faith in a faithless generation

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More like a pipe wrench

Sometimes God goes beyond the box of finely machined tools

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Send bears, not sheep

College survival suggestions from students and parents

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