Description
Cover Photo Credit: H. Armstrong Roberts
FEATURES
8 Olivia’s Story, Marjorie Blake
10 The Question That Changed Her Life Forever, Gene Van Note
20 A Different Kind of Gift List, Janice Lemke
22 The Dark Side of the Nativity, Ryan Ahlgrim
26 Who of Us Dare Join in Mary’s Song?, Edwin F. Rempel
28 Straw in the Crib, Niki Anderson
37 The Erosion of Heterosexuality, Charles W. Socarides
40 Guilty - with an Explanation, John W. Dally
POETRY
24-25
The Christmas Gift, Marilyn Hochheiser
I’ll Make Room, Jacquelin D. Holland
Come, O Christmas Star, Jean Hogan Dudley
The Coming, Joanne Long
Room to Celebrate, Sandy Mayle
CONTINUING COLUMNS
3 General Superintendent’s Viewpoint, James H. Diehl
6 Into the Word, Roger L. Hahn
29 When You Pray, E. Dee Freeborn
31 Over 60, C. Ellen Watts
46 Observer at Large, John C. Bowling
Inside Back Cover In a Woman’s Voice, Janice Duce
DEPARTMENTS
1 Editor’s Choice, Wesley D. Tracy
4 The Readers Write
14-18, 42-44 News, Mark Graham & Bryan Merrill
30 Evangelists’ Slates
32 Annual Index
34-35 The Nazarene Family, Bryan Merrill
36 The Question Box
47 Marked Copy, Mark Graham
48 Late News, Mark Graham & Bryan Merrill