News

Go Figure

Stats on theology, marriage, and evangelical self-image.

Discipleship

48% Evangelicals who listed violence, hatred, bigotry, intolerance, and lack of love for others negative contributions of the Christian population to American society.

25% Americans in general who listed such failings of the Christian population. Evangelicals were also the group least likely to say they couldn’t think of negative contributions.

Source: Barna Research

Theology

See figure here on pastors who identify themselves as Reformed or Wesleyan/Arminian.

Source: Barna Research

Family

42% Weekly churchgoers who say a marriage where the husband provides for the family and the wife takes care of the home and children is the more satisfying way of life.

25% Occasional churchgoers who say this.

Source: Pew Research Center

Marriage

Compared to your parents, is your relationship with your spouse/partner:

51% Closer

43% About the same

5% Less close

Source: Pew Research Center

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Chasing Methuselah

Todd T. W. Daly

Unreasonable Doubt

Jim Spiegel

How to Teach Sex

Stanton L. Jones

Review

The Center of the Good News

Changing Forever How You Think

John Wilson

Wilson's Bookmarks

John Wilson

The Enduring Church

Jennifer Powell McNutt

Filling the Dad Gap

Review

Luminous Slice of China

Cindy Crosby

Connoisseur for Christ: Roberta Green Ahmanson

Christine A. Scheller

Books to Note

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'Chilling Verdict'

Ken Walker

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Bhutan Budges

Compass Direct News

Flunking Pew's Pop Quiz

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Generic Christian U.

Bobby Ross Jr.

The Meaning of Business

Interview by Rob Moll

Give to Street People?

Gary Hoag

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Wise Stewards

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My Top 5 Books on Poetry for the Soul

Roger Lundin

Editorial

Cracks in the Crystal Cathedral

A Christianity Today Editorial

Sudan's Politics of Prayer

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Constructing Peace

Moses Wasamu in Nairobi, Kenya

The Rush to Reconcile

Tony Carnes

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A Developing Nation Inside the U.S.

Nicole Russell and Mark Moring

A God-Sized Food Bank

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Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra

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