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Go Figure

Recent statistics on young evangelical’s politics and ‘Christian fundamentalist religions.’

2:1   Ratio of self-identified Republicans to Democrats among evangelicals ages 18-29.

4:1   Ratio in 2005.

(Source: Pew Research Center)

70%   Evangelicals 18-29 who favor “making it more difficult for a woman to get an abortion.”

55%   Evangelicals 30 and older who favor this.

(Source: Pew Research Center)

31%   Americans who say they have a favorable impression of “Christian fundamentalist religions.”

31%   Americans who say they have an unfavorable impression (the rest say they haven’t heard enough to say or are unsure).

(Source: CBS News)

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Blessed Are the Barren

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson

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Young, Restless, and Ready for Revival

Becky Tirabassi

An Incomplete Reconciliation

Review by Lauren Winner

Bookmarks

John Wilson, editor of 'Books & Culture'

Hour of Decision

Erik Thoennes

It's a Wonder-Full Life

Courageous Nonviolence

Ron Sider

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Suffocating the Faithful

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman

Saving Faces

Deann Alford in Accra, Ghana

Editorial

Who Do People Say We Are?

A Christianity Today Editorial

When the Media Became a Nuisance

Darrell Bock

Mixing Faith and Power

Collin Hansen

The Invasion of God

My Top 5 Books on Church History

Douglas A. Sweeney, author, 'The American Evangelical Story' (Baker Academic).

Editorial

How We Fight Poverty

A Christianity Today Editorial

Christmas 'Jars'

Interview by Mark Moring

Unexpected Global Lessons

Do They Know It's Hanukkah?

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The Chronicles of Atheism

Peter T. Chattaway

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Q&A: Karekin II

Denise McGill

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Quotation Marks

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News Briefs: November 15, 2007

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Passages

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Hybrid Test Drive

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

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Undercover Clinic

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Tulsa Dustup

Bill Sherman

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Voting Values

Jocelyn Green

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'Federation' Charts New Frontier

Sheryl Henderson Blunt

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Tortured to Death in Eritrea

Jeff M. Sellers, Compass Direct

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Wycliffe Woes

Brad A. Greenberg

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