Good News Magazine: July - August 1999

What's behind the frightening epidemic of youth violence? The prophet Isaiah envisioned a time when children would oppress their elders. Are we living...

Romano Prodi, nominated for president of the European Commission, has called for the creation of a European army as the next logical step in Europe's...

Scientists predict astounding advancements in artificial intelligence in the coming years. Can AI help us solve our chronic problems?

Some see American children as a generation of rage. Surrounded with materialism, the typical child may look healthy materially—but many are...

An Anglican and Roman Catholic joint commission has recognized the pope's overall spiritual authority, depicting the pope as a "gift to be received by...

How can we deal with devastating circumstances? How do you pull through without your life disintegrating?

To many secular prophets, the gloomy trends of youthful violence are a harbinger of a crisis of biblical proportions.

A tragic byproduct of overweight among Westerners is greater vulnerability to heart disease.

"Pick your parents wisely." This saying is offered as sage, although tongue-in-cheek, advice for children. Since parents more than anyone else have...

This century has seen astounding scientific and technological advancement. Developments continue to amaze. But is all such advancement a good thing?

A worldwide survey has revealed that "the world's forests are being stripped of their rarest trees."

Rarely does a day go by when we don't read or hear of a senseless tragedy, a life cut short.

Except for some simpler life forms, nature's method of reproduction is the union of male and female. Cloning is a means of producing offspring without...

The smallpox virus was slated to be the first species specifically targeted for extinction.

The concept of a resurrection to life—a biblical teaching few understand—was no longer an intangible promise from the pages of the Bible. The...

Some artificial-intelligence proponents are certain that, by the end of the 21st century, cyborgs—the merger of humans with their electronic creations...

Residents of retirement resorts are reporting a marked increase in AIDS.

Is America surrendering its leadership of the Western world?

If Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams and Benjamin Franklin conceived the framework of a new nation, George Washington navigated it through...

According to The Sunday Times, Israel's prime minister-elect, Ehud Barak, will push to offer Syria the Golan Heights in return for peace in an...

In recent years major museums have played host to a special exhibition that spotlights pre-Christian Chinese civilization. The most spectacular facet...

Sometimes if you don't say no you can end up hurting yourself. The challenge is in learning to say no without offending others and losing friends.

Nearly two million civilians have died in the southern Sudan during a 15-year war that has developed into the deadliest conflict since World War II.