Polling Evangelical Leaders

Both unanimity and diversity emerge in a recent poll of the Lausanne delegates.

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Real Happiness: Colson and George Bemoan our National Virtue Deficit

Chuck Colson and Timothy George

A Dream of a Center: 'A Model for Faith-based Organizations'

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A Both/And Path to Truth

God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Body

Matthew Lee Anderson

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Go Figure

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Review

What Jesus Never Said

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Feeding the Poor Through Pay-As-You-Can

Catherine Newhouse

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Mark Moring

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Pastors: Alabama Immigration Law Will Crimp Outreach

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A New Kind of Pentecostal

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A Christianity Today Editorial

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Passages

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Should We Still Give Out Tracts?

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Christian faith must act on behalf of the most vulnerable, not clutter social media feeds.

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We need to know how badly students are failing in math class. Then we must return to the fundamentals.

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