This Article is from the Spring 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

Our student son said to us recently, “By the way, I was talking to some street kids in Toronto the other day, and I gave them our phone number in case they needed it. I hope that’s OK?” So far [...]

This Article is from the Spring 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

Numbers are not everything, but when they change dramatically, it is worth asking what is going on. In the past three and a half years, Christ Church, Cataraqui, has grown from 100 family units on the parish list and an [...]

The author, a history professor specializing in ancient religions, compares these five famous spiritual guides–their lives, their teaching, their deaths, and the claims their followers made about them–and shows how the claims made about Jesus are significantly different from the others. You do not have to agree with Yamauchi to appreciate the uniqueness of Jesus.

This DARE [...]

Robin Williams’ movies frequently raise profound questions–about personhood, freedom, forgiveness, healing, and the search for a sense of home. This booklet traces how these themes have developed through Williams’ career, and then shows how the teaching of Jesus from two thousand years ago speaks to them.

This DARE Booklet is out of print and not available [...]

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Everybody needs a story
All human beings need a story to belong to,

a big story
a story which tells them who they are
a story which tells them whether their lives [...]

This Article is from the Winter 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

One of my first experiences with evangelism happened in a rather backwards fashion. I was an undergraduate at a party where I was to have my first conversation with my future husband. Tim came up to me and said, [...]

This Article is from the Winter 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

 
The Decade of Evangelism has been a time of consciousness raising.  We entered the Decade at a time when we were only just beginning to recognize and name the loss of Christian memory and the emerging “godless” spirituality. It [...]

This Article is from the Winter 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

 
The Lambeth Conference in 1988 designated the 1990s a Decade of Evangelism, so now seems a good time to pause and review where we have come from and where we yet need to go. Complete objectivity is a luxury [...]