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Go Figure

Abortion, Catholicism, politics, and other recent stats.

Abortion

100,000 Babies saved from abortion through Focus on the Family’s Operation Ultrasound program, which provides grants for machines and sonography training, since its 2004 launch.

Source: Focus on the Family/

Denver Post

Church Life

Swiss churchgoers on why they attend

62%: “I’m just always there”

28%: I enjoy the services.

7%: Because I’m afraid about the afterlife.

5%: Because I believe in God.

Source: Reformed Press via

Swissinfo.ch

Catholicism

8.6 Catholic marriages per 1,000 U.S. Catholics in 1972.

2.6 Catholic marriages per 1,000 U.S. Catholics in 2010.

Source:

Our Sunday Visitor

Politics

I am less likely to support a candidate who is:

Catholic:

Mormon: 16%

Gay: 25%

Mainline:

Mormon: 19%

Gay: 30%

Evangelical

Mormon: 34%

Gay: 65%

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press via

CT Politics

Traditional values

46% Americans who say the government should promote traditional values.

57% Americans who said this in 2008.

Source: CNN/Opinion Research via

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Cover Story

Americans Like Evangelicals After All

Bradley R.E. Wright

Books to Note

Mark Noll on the Foundation of the Evangelical Mind

My Top 5 Books On Hell

Robert Peterson

Signs of the End Times

Wilson's Bookmarks

John Wilson

Review

King James and Queen Victoria: John Wilson Reviews Timothy Larsen's Latest

John Wilson

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Homeless Shelters Face Sharp Cutbacks

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Dave Ramsey Goes Beyond Credit Card Shredding

Rob Moll

Ethiopia's River of Death

Matthew D. LaPlante

Agents of Translation: Philip Eaton on 'Engaging the Culture, Changing the World'

Interview by Hunter Baker

Real Happiness: Colson and George Bemoan our National Virtue Deficit

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

Interview by Robert Crosby

A Both/And Path to Truth

God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Body

Review

What Jesus Never Said

Phillip Cary

Feeding the Poor Through Pay-As-You-Can

Catherine Newhouse

Do They Like Us?

Readers Write

No More Band-Aids: Shannon Sedgwick Davis Wields Law to Halt Genocide

Mark Moring

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Pastors: Alabama Immigration Law Will Crimp Outreach

Ken Walker

A New Kind of Pentecostal

Robert C. Crosby

Drones: Is It Wrong to Kill by Remote Control?

Paul F. M. Zahl, Daniel M. Bell Jr., and Brian Stiltner

Editorial

Good Religion, Bad Religion

A Christianity Today Editorial

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Quotation Marks

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Canceled Flights: New Policies Threaten Settlement Agencies

Susan Wunderink

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Gender Debate: SBC Pastors Denounce NIV

Bob Smietana

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Polling Evangelical Leaders

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Purity Practices: Coed Leadership Concerns

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

News

Colleges Deemed Not Religious Enough, Refugees Improperly Quizzed on Religion, and More News

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Passages

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Should We Still Give Out Tracts?

Compiled by Ruth Moon

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