Victor Cooper

Ernest got along well with people. He worked long hours at a plastics factory, so he enjoyed going with his two children and his wife, Carol, to the mountains on weekends. Saturday and Sunday were reserved for skiing, boating, bike…

Christian communicators may become more effective by making greater use of the visual medium. "Seeing is believing," as advertisers know. That's why they use the television screen to sell soap, cars, mouthwash, and a host of other products…

"There are over 320,000 premature deaths in the United States of America as a result of smoking," said former Surgeon-General of the United States Dr. Luther L. Terry in a June 4, 1980, lecture to the National Society of Non- Smokers, at…

Television has usurped the role of the church in our society. It expresses our cultural essence and shapes our value systems, claims William Fore, assistant general secretary for communication at the National Council of Churches. He is also…

Extravagant Love points the way to peaceful living in a world of violence, injustice, and hostility. Stories like those of Maggie in Minneapolis and Manuel in New York City indicate the struggle through which many people go to find…

Three clergy persons became victims of violence within a 24-hour period in different parts of the United Kingdom.

Christopher Gray, 32-year-old minister of St. Margaret's Church, Anfield, Liverpool, was stabbed to death outside his…

Lady Deborah Moody, a seventeenth-century widow who fled persecution in England, was excommunicated from the church in Salem, Massachusetts. Called "dangerous" for dissenting from the orthodox belief concerning infant baptism, the new immigrant…