News

Go Figure

Recent stats on Iraqi refugees, embezzlement, and Congress’s religion.

2 million

Iraqis who have fled the country since the war began in 2003.

466

Refugees from Iraq admitted to the U.S. since the war began.

2,473

Iraqi refugees admitted in 2001 alone.

85%

U.S. Roman Catholic dioceses that have detected embezzlement over the past five years.

11%

Embezzlement cases in which the theft exceeded $500,000.

3%

Dioceses that conducted an annual internal audit of their finances.

1%

Members of Congress (6) who describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated.

14%

Americans who describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated.

Sources: UNHCR, Department of Homeland Security, National Catholic Reporter/Villanova University, Religion News Service/General Social Survey

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Sources: UNHCR, Department of Homeland Security, National Catholic Reporter/Villanova University, Religion News Service/General Social Survey

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Free at Last

Deann Alford

Grace Afar and Near

Practicing Chastity

Lauren F. Winner reviews Dawn Eden's 'The Thrill of the Chaste.'

'Ordinary' Delights

Old Testament Sermon Solutions

Review by John Makujina

Living with the Darwin Fish

Godly Emotion

Review by Stanton L. Jones

Grandpa John

Tim Stafford

Jesus' Sermon for Moderns

Review by Gary M. Burge

A Spiritual Growth Industry

Brad A. Greenberg

Emerging Monasticism

Review by Rob Moll

Leaps of Faith

Bob Smietana

Images of Mission

Review by Jim Reapsome, Associate Pastor, Western Springs Baptist Church

Jesus and the Sinner’s Prayer

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Suffering God

My Conversation with God

Anonymous

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Quotation Marks

Seeing Both Sides

Review by Douglas LeBlanc

Editorial

The Slope Really Is Slippery

A Christianity Today Editorial

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Majority Spoils

Sheryl Henderson Blunt

Not What It Seems

Q&A: Hugh Hewitt

The Devil's Yoke

Interview by Sheryl Henderson Blunt

Why Isn't 'Yes' Enough?

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Amazing Abolitionist

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On a Justice Mission

Gary Haugen

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No Spoonful of Sugar

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Witness Lee in the Dock

Mark A. Kellner

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What Would Wilberforce Do?

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Home Sharks

Rob Moll

Deeper into Terabithia

Interview by Peter T. Chattaway

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Day of Reckoning

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Redirected Tithe

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Receipt at the Ready

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

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Fluid Solution

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Dividing the Faithful

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