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1. Taliban takes Korean short-term mission team hostage, killing two
Afghanistan's resurgent Taliban used the team of 23 short-term workers from Saemmul Presbyterian Church as a bargaining chip, pressuring the South Korean government into a reported ransom payment and a promise to withdraw its 200 troops in the country. Bae Hyeong-gyu and Shim Seongmin were killed before the negotiation was completed.
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2. Atheism tops the bestseller charts
Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens may be unhappy about the continuing "God delusion," but they can't be too displeased with their royalty checks.
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3. Presidential campaigns start early, with some faith surprises
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama spoke easily of their faith, while Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson all stumbled in appeals to Christian voters.
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4. Ruth Graham promoted to glory
The daughter of missionaries who, as a teenager, wanted to die a martyr's death, Ruth Graham instead became the wife of the world's most prominent evangelist—and an inspiration to millions.
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5. Anglican Communion fractures over Scripture, homosexuality
Global South leaders issued an ultimatum for the U.S. Episcopal Church to return to orthodox interpretation of Scripture, four U.S. dioceses took steps to exit the church, and the basis for a conservative new Anglican province in the U.S.was laid. Besides that, all was quiet in the Anglican Communion.
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6. Three Christians tortured and killed in eastern Turkey
Turkey's bid for entry into the European Union hasn't pleased the country's ultranationalist fringe, members of which are charged with slitting the throats of three Protestants at a Christian publishing house in Malatya.
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7. Lions of the Religious Right pass away
Jerry Falwell and D. James Kennedy lived long enough to see great successes for the political movement they helped start.
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8. Francis Beckwith returns to Catholicism
No doubt many Protestants convert to the Roman Catholic Church every day. But most aren't serving as president of the Evangelical Theological Society, as Beckwith was when he returned to the faith in which he was raised.
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9. Campaign to oust NAE's Richard Cizik fails
James Dobson and other religious conservatives couldn't depose the National Association of Evangelicals' vice president for his global warming activism.
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10. Supreme Court upholds 2003 federal partial-birth abortion ban
The 5-4 decision marks the first national restriction on abortion since 1973's Roe v. Wade.
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Timothy

Posted: December 29, 2007 12:49 PM

JEH is correct in that the top 10 list is USA centric. As the Church is worldwide, the top 10 should list events that significantly shape the worldwide church. The recent joint Catholic-Orthodox meeting in Ravenna, Italy which re-affirmed the primacy of the Bishop of Rome is likely to significantly shape, evangelical life, thought, or mission much more than hostage taking and torture. Those are every day dog bites man stories. Orthodox affirming papal primacy is a man bites dog story.

Stan	Posted: December 18, 2007 5:00 PM

Personally I think the self referential nature of Christianity is having the most significant effect on our churches today. We spend most of our time looking at each other, preaching at each other, selling to each other and critcizing each other. Christianity is largely irrelevant to ordinary people because the people inside the church have no idea or concern about how the people outside the church think or perceive their religiosity. Christians need to look outward and learn again what is really going on in the hearts and minds of the rest of the population.

Doug	Posted: December 28, 2007 8:28 AM

I am shocked by all the bitterness I read. I am shocked at how some of you, who appear to be mere shills of the democrat party or possibly Ron Paul. just want to bad mouth George Bush and the war in Iraq, regurgitating the same party lines of the dems. How about Darfur? How about the continued suppresion and murder in Myanmar and China and Tibet? Our last president stood by and watched the slaughter of millions in Rwanda, we can no longer allow Darfur to continue, but alas the world does not seem to care. We need to care as Christians and no one seems to. Stop the bitterness and hatred, love one another. Happy New Year.