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Top Ten Stories of 2007

The events, people, and debates of the past year that Christianity Today's editors believe have shaped, or will significantly shape, evangelical life, thought, or mission.

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 ...

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January 2008, Vol. 52, No. 1
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Jim Congdon

December 28, 2007  4:22pm

CT’s list is curious, at best. We can overlook the quirky choice of #1 story (”Taliban takes Korean missions team hostage”) though it’s one that few Christians know–so it won’t affect us greatly, though the editor says that was the basis for the selections. We can even forgive a Billy Graham-founded magazine the suspicious separation of Ruth Graham’s death (#5: “promoted to glory”!) from the deaths of Jerry Falwell and D.J. Kennedy (#7: “Religious Right lions” who simply “pass away”). But what invalidates the list is that the CT editors appear to have concluded it a month or so ago, for it leaves out two of the biggest events of the year, the gun slayings in Colorado at YWAM and New Life Church, and the November “Stem Cell breakthrough” discovery that human skin cells can behave like embryonic stem cells, so human embryos no longer need to be destroyed. TIME magazine ranks this as the #8 news story of the year in the entire world, but CT overlooks it entirely, while selecting a simil

Doug

December 28, 2007  8:28am

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.

Chingy

December 27, 2007  4:18pm

#11 Jesus Christ once again fails to return to Earth.

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