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Child-like faith

by Bob Jones

Cover Story Sidebar | It's just after lunch on a Tuesday, and Crossroads Baptist Church is finally quiet. The morning has been punctuated by singing, crying, and squealing and not because there's a healing service going on. Instead, it's just another day at CBC Daycare, and the center's little charges are finally down for a nap. Louis Baldwin, the pastor, started the church's day-care center 2 years ago when he saw the need for affordable alternatives for working mothers in Bailey's Crossroads, a Washington

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Crisis of the day

by Roy Maynard

Cover Story | Since Hillary Clinton's White House conference on day care in October, Clinton administration officials have been busily creating the perception of a day-care crisis in America. All of which will lead up to a presidential address later this month and a major push for new federal legislation to make day care more attractive for families. But what about those families with moms who desire to stay home? One government program actually encourages such families, but don't expect to hear about it or similar ideas when the president delivers the State of the Union.

[http://www.worldmag.com/1998/01/crisis_of_the_day]

In this issue: "Day scare," Jan. 10, 1998

Features

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What would Jesus do?

National |  The Jesus bracelet fad: Is it merchandising or ministry?

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The law of Chiapas

by Mindy Belz

International |  December paramilitary massacre breaks all the rules, overshadows persecution of evangelicals in the state

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Homeless props

by Cal Thomas

National |  Gore reads a story and tells the poor to have a nice day

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And justice for all?

by Roy Maynard

National |  In Seattle, testing the limits of city anti-discrimination law

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Dispatches

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Quotables

"Ladies and gentlemen, you are all officially breaking the law if you are smoking." Pine Cove Inn tavern manager GERRY SHERMAN, minutes into the new year,

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This Week

Chickening out Poultry giant Tyson Foods Inc. chickened out of a pending trial, pleading guilty to corruption charges and offering to assist the prosecution…

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Reviews

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Film: Underwater dangers

by David Aikman

Movies |  Filmmaker keeps Titanic's message partially submerged

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Music: Earthen vessels

by Arsenio Orteza

Music |  Christian rockers show musical, if not cultural, maturity

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Books: Jefferson as Clinton?

by Roy Maynard

Books |  Presidential biographies differ on whether character counts

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Culture Notes

Culture |  Reforming CCM Luther offered 99 Theses against the medieval commercialization of the gospel. Christian recording artist Steve Camp is offering 107 Theses…

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Accentuate the positive

by George Grant

Culture |  George Grant explains his principles for reviewing books

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Voices

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Mailbag

Global funding Richard T. Wright says, "In the scientific community, there is clear consensus that [global warming] is a serious problem" ("Fuel for thought,"

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The abortion society

by Marvin Olasky

How Johnson, Blackmun tried to be like God

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Selling our birthright

by Janie B. Cheaney

The culture shifts, but the church does not have to go along

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Writer's block

by Joel Belz

When we're too eager to be taken seriously, we risk looking silly

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