News

Go Figure

Focus on the Family’s giving, the chaplain shortage, and medical ethics.

$2.26

Individual donations and foundation funds given to Focus on the Family in 2005 to every $1 given to National Public Radio.

$1.01

Focus’s public income to every $1 given to Paul Crouch’s Trinity Broadcasting Network.

$0.78

Focus’s public income to every $1 given to Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network.

$0.58

Focus’s public income for every $1 given to Planned Parenthood.

Source: NonProfit Times

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775

Chaplain positions in the Army National Guard.

310

Positions that are currently filled.

Source: Associated Press

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63%

Physicians who say it is ethically permissible to explain religious or moral objections about a procedure to patients.

8%

Physicians who say there is no obligation to tell patients about procedures to which they morally object.

18%

Physicians who say there is no obligation to refer patients to a physician who does not object to the procedure.

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

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47%

Terminal cancer patients who say their spiritual needs not supported met by a religious community.

72%

Terminal cancer patients who say their spiritual needs were not supported by the medical system.

Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology

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The CT archives are a rich treasure of biblical wisdom and insight from our past. Some things we would say differently today, and some stances we've changed. But overall, we're amazed at how relevant so much of this content is. We trust that you'll find it a helpful resource.

Cover Story

Passion Takes It Higher

Collin Hansen

The Joy of Policy Manuals

News

Cleaning Up La Oroya

Hunter Farrell

The Road to Healing

Anonymous

An End to the Creation/Evolution Wars?

Review by Sam O'Neal

Picture Christ

Dennis Ngien

Declaration of Interdependence

Review by Dave Broucek

Window into the Bible's Land

Islam's Silent Majority

Review by Warren Larson

A Manifold Resurrection

John Witte Jr.

Resurrected Life

Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman

Henry Ward Beecher's Life and Times

Review by John Wilson

News

Living with Islamists

Joshua T. White

Football Family Values

Review by Collin Hansen

Desire Happens

Throwing Rocks at Israel

Review

Surfing for Spirituality

Russ Breimeier

Relentless Pursuit

Bizzare-istan

Susan Wunderink

News

Quotation Marks

Editorial

'Safe Sex' for the Whole Nation

A Christianity Today Editorial

Life, Liberty, and Terrorism

Review by John Wilson

News

News Briefs: April 01, 2007

News

Nigeria's Touchy Transition

Isaac Phiri

Learning to Cry for the Culture

John Fischer

News

Global Ultimatum

Timothy C. Morgan in Tanzania and Zanzibar

News

Love Your Muslim as Yourself

A Christianity Today Editorial

Ready to Implode?

Leslie Scanlon

News

'Destroy the Christian Religion'

Sheryl Henderson Blunt

CTI's Modest Dynamic Duo

News

Ireland's Evangelical Moment

Mary Cagney

News

Passages

Q&A: Albert Mohler

Collin Hansen

No Exceptions

Rob James in Wales

Religion Sections Deleted

Sarah Pulliam

Church Divorce Done Right

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Elizabeth Berget

Here in Minneapolis, our immigrant neighbors are scared. Local churches like mine are working to meet their needs.

News

An ‘Underground Railroad’ to Rescue Abducted Ukrainian Kids

Russia has taken tens of thousands of children, who end up in reeducation facilities, military schools, or illegal adoptions.

The Russell Moore Show

Beth Moore on Walking with God

Why walk with God when answers don’t come quickly—and sometimes don’t come at all?

How to Witness Well in Post-Christian America

Darrell Bock

We must engage the truth of the gospel with relationship and respect.

Young Christians Can Stay in the Black Church

Michael Lyles II

A legalistic congregation and my own spiritual immaturity made me sour on church. But God and another congregation drew me back.

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Emmanuel Nwachukwu

One woman warned the senate of a “silent aftermath they will never legislate away.”

Review

Love Thy Dead-for-200-Years Neighbor

Daniel K. Williams

God and Country argues Christians studying the past must be charitable to its flawed inhabitants.

Excerpt

The First Christian Nation

Mark W. Graham

An excerpt from 30 Key Moments in the History of Christianity.

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