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Recent statistics on checking email in church, Falwell’s life insurance, and pastors’ salaries.

37%   Mobile device users who check e-mail while driving.

12%   Mobile device users who check e-mail during church.

Source: AOL

$29 million   Amount from Jerry Falwell’s life insurance payout that went to Liberty University, canceling the school’s debt.

$82 million   The school’s debt during its 1992 financial crisis.

Source: The News & Advance

$56,959   Average annual compensation, including salary and benefits, for solo pastors.

10.4%   How much more female solo pastors make than their male counterparts.

Source: Your Church Resources via Leadership

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What God Has Joined

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From Hand Out to Hand Up

Puncturing Atheism

Amazing Newton

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Taking Revival to the World

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The Good Shepherds

Why Muslims Follow Jesus

Until We Meet Again

A Grounded Faith

My Top 5 Books on the Civil War

Gutsy Guilt

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Tethered to the Center

Community of Memory

Blessed Are the Merciful

Interview with a Pharisee—and a Christian

When Red Is Blue

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Runner-up Wife

Redeeming the Remarried

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The Fatherless Child

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Amusing Ourselves on Sunday

When the Lights Go Out

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A Fishy Facebook Friend

The Dread Cancer of Stinginess

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Quotation Marks

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Lovers in a Dangerous Time

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The Death of Blogs

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Passages

Q&A: Peter Wehner

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News Briefs: October 10, 2007

Broken Bonds

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Campus Capitalism

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Milking Martyrdom

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The Best Research Yet

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An Older, Wiser Ex-Gay Movement

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Moving to 'Acceptance'

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Anglicans Turn Inside Out

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Uniform Disagreement

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Choosing a Side

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