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A meditation on the lives of contemporary martyrs.
A meditation on the lives of contemporary martyrs.
The struggle for justice receives a boost from Christian ministries.
Will Christianity's oldest church survive the peace process?
From the Living Bible to the New Living Translation.
Forty years after five missionaries lost their lives in the Ecuadorian jungle, the killers explain what really happened.
A Zairean bishop wants American Christians to remember the struggles of the church in East Africa.
Pastors are overworked, underpaid, and bear the weight of unrealistic expectations. Why then are so many so satisfied?
How shall we reconcile the glorious birth of the Savior with the bloody deaths of the boys of Bethlehem?
These "millennial" teenagers are forcing the church to rethink youth ministry.
These "millennial" teenagers are forcing the church to rethink youth ministry.
These "millennial" teenagers are forcing the church to rethink youth ministry.
Evangelicalism's power couple closes in on their radical mission.
Bible society cancels plans for 'gender-accurate' Bible after public outcry.
Thirteen years after his death, Schaeffer's vision and frustrations continue to haunt evangelicalism.
Thirteen years after his death, Schaeffer's vision and frustrations continue to haunt evangelicalism.

April 27, 1667: Blind, bitter, and poor, Puritan poet John Milton sells for ten pounds the copyright for Paradise Lost—a book that would influence English thought and language nearly as much as the King James Version and the plays of Shakespeare. The theme of the epic appears in its opening lines: "Of man's disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe, / With loss of Eden.

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