The Way We Give Now

Compiled by Ted Olsen

Christian ministries received $9.8 billion in cash donations in 2011. But which ones received most?

The Way We Give Now

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April

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Cover Story

Easter Wings

Christopher Benson

Cover Story

National Tragedy and the Empty Tomb

If the Supreme Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage, What Next?

Timothy Dalrymple, Jim Daly, and Elodie Ballantine Emig

Testimony

Antidote to Poison

Suffering Servants

Interview by Sarah Pulliam Bailey

The Hope Roaster

April Burbank

Excerpt

Taking Action Through Radical Kindness

Ajith Fernando

The Mystery of Original Sin

Marguerite Shuster

News

First Language First

Bob Smietana

Conversion Confusion

Jayson Casper in Cairo

The Trouble with Cussing Christians

Knowing What the Bible ‘Really’ Means

Jost Zetzsche

News

Is Concern Over the Rise of the 'Nones' Overblown?

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My Top 5 Books on Singleness

Rick Warren's Final Frontier

Interview by Timothy C. Morgan

News

Is 'Incoherent' Christianity Better Than None at All?

Melissa Steffan

News

Black Churches' Missing Missionaries

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

Review

How a Dutch Neo-Calvinist Helped Birth an Intellectual Movement

Eric Miller

Letters to the Editor

Notes from Newtown

Review

So All May Learn

Jerry Pattengale

Quick Takes

Matt Reynolds

Wilson's Bookmarks

John Wilson

News

Gleanings

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Go Figure

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Quotation Marks

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Passages

Girls Talk

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No GRACE in Sexual Abuse Investigation of Missionary Kids

Bobby Ross Jr.

Editorial

A Pope for All Christians

Timothy C. Morgan

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Quitting Time: The Pope Retired. Should Your Pastor?

Ruth Moon

The Man Who Birthed Evangelicalism

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