Herbert W Armstrong

What caused this spring's widespread floods? Can such destruction be prevented in the future? What lessons were learned - and NOT learned - by this disaster? Read the answers in this on-the-spot report from the major flood areas. The pattern was all too familiar. Heavy rains had saturated the soil ...

There is a gigantic battlefield being, drawn today, which is, in fact, the entirety of the world. On one side are arrayed the "have" nations; on the other side are the "have-not" nations. The first group comprises the industrialized, non-Communist, democratic nations with only about 750 million citi ...

You can punish your children in love - and GET RESULTS! But to be effective, to really have it payoff, you need to know HOW to punish, what with, how often, how soon, how hard - and when NOT to spank! The mere suggestion of spanking a small child, or "hitting" a child, as the psychologists ...

A longtime reader of The Plain Truth recently wrote our editorial staff: "Every article in your most recent issue posed significant problems and gave needed answers. I have read several scientific articles, but none so clear as yours in the April issue." Let me explain why to our readers. ...

Allergic to the 20th Century? by Robert C. Taylor - Drug Use Trends by Colleen Dixon - Is Anybody Out There? by Lowell Wagner Jr. - U.S. Inching Toward Metric System? by Mike Bennett: Is it possible to be allergic to the modern world? Yes, it seems. A new disease doctors are calling environmental il ...

Volcanic activity is a present threatening danger around the world. Thousands have perished this year in fiery agony! Here's what prophecy reveals - together with an eyewitness account of a presently erupting volcano! The "Ring of Fire" is aflame again! Over THREE HUNDRED presently activ ...

Where did physical life come from? Did highly complex molecules form by chance in a primeval chemical soup? Did these molecules combine by chance into highly complex combinations of molecules, thereby producing "simple" living organisms? Did such "simple" organisms evolve into in ...

Orr, Minnesota, IN THE midst of the natural beauty of North America, God has provided a unique educational program for the youth of His people. It is the Imperial Schools summer educational facility at Orr, Minnesota. Here, preserved among groves of white birch, northern pine and black mapl ...

The Panda Fights for Survival by Robert C. Taylor - New Law Raises Drinking Age by Lowell Wagner Jr. - Harvesting a High-Tech Crop by Robert C. Taylor and Lowell Wagner Jr. - Hong Kong: The Challenge of 1997 by Tom Hanson - The world's favorite teddy bear - the giant panda - may be starving to ext ...

The changing geopolitical scene in East Asia may leave Japan no choice: It is rearm or perish! Japan today faces a sobering reality. Japan is Asia's premier industrial nation. Its remarkable postwar economic miracle has been admired around the world. The industrious Japanese are affluent- ahead ...

What is your part as a layman in God's Church? How you can effectively influence others in the RIGHT WAY is revealed here by the Supervisor of our Letter Answering Department. DID YOU ever try to show God's Truth to a member in your family or to a friend? It is a natural tendency for a newly con ...

Most of today's news is dismal, foreboding. Just ahead, however, is thrilling news for everyone! Have you noticed? Of late The Plain Truth magazine has been reporting some especially disturbing news. Increased natural disasters, social disintegration, economic chaos, international tensions, prepar ...

The children of God's people are challenged in this world's schools. This is specially true in the holiday seasons. Most people believe in observing Halloween, Christmas and Easter, and they expect their children to learn something of these days in school. It is natural for teachers to use these ...

The Western world is on an astounding energy binge. Available supplies of coal, oil and natural gas are being blasted and scraped from the earth and sucked up and burned at unprecedented rates. Why must we use ever increasing amounts of energy per person? Energy makes today's world go round. In it ...

WHAT IS MAN? WHAT MAKES HIM UNIQUE? Man is the most complex, truly unique physical mechanism ever designed and made. With such a marvelous mind and body, we might expect it was only natural that our Maker send along his "Instruction Book" - just as a manufacturer sends along with the instrument or d ...