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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Cover Story

Passion Takes It Higher

The Joy of Policy Manuals

News

Cleaning Up La Oroya

The Road to Healing

An End to the Creation/Evolution Wars?

Picture Christ

Declaration of Interdependence

Window into the Bible's Land

Islam's Silent Majority

A Manifold Resurrection

Resurrected Life

Henry Ward Beecher's Life and Times

News

Living with Islamists

Football Family Values

Desire Happens

Throwing Rocks at Israel

Review

Surfing for Spirituality

Relentless Pursuit

Bizzare-istan

News

Quotation Marks

Editorial

'Safe Sex' for the Whole Nation

Life, Liberty, and Terrorism

News

News Briefs: April 01, 2007

News

Nigeria's Touchy Transition

Learning to Cry for the Culture

News

Global Ultimatum

News

Love Your Muslim as Yourself

Ready to Implode?

News

'Destroy the Christian Religion'

CTI's Modest Dynamic Duo

News

Ireland's Evangelical Moment

News

Passages

Q&A: Albert Mohler

No Exceptions

Religion Sections Deleted

Church Divorce Done Right

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