ITEMS OF INTEREST March 5, 2007 ISSUE

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Tim Johnson, George Barna

SOME 140 YEARS AGO, a Methodist missionary with a flowing beard stepped aboard a sampan in coastal China and held on firmly as boatmen steered up the Min River, poling and rowing past rapids that almost splintered the vessel.

On arrival at this outpost [Nanping], the missionary set up a chapel, effectively bringing Christianity to a lawless and disease-ridden corner of southern China....

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Article

SPIRITUALITY and the longevity frontier