Agency pays school debts of medical missionaries

Why InterVarsity Christian Fellowship was derecognized at some of America's leading universities

Jewish elites broker new relations with evangelicals

Ten truths that can help reformers survive (and thrive) at annual denominational meetings

A high school teacher finds the sacred in all the wrong places

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A convert from Islam answers critics hostile to the Christian mission

One small ruling for Texas; one giant leap into a cultural abyss

"Quotations to stir the heart and mind from Van Gogh, Dante, Thomas Merton, and others"

"The Yale historian and missiologist talks about his conversion, Muslim-Christian relations, Anglican troubles, and the future of Christianity"

Let's not make the Commandments into a graven image

Recent figures on faith and politics

Hebrew thinking in a Greek world

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It's still impossible to predict what will advance the gospel in Hollywood

How I handle diversions and distractions.

Should we just be grateful for whatever they do?

Despite earlier failings, the quest for the historical Jesus still matters. Our interview with N.T. Wright.