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Giving and Getting in 1997
Donations in 1997 rose 7.5% to $143.5 billion. Individual gifts to religious causes were the most common.
The Good HMO
First Resort founder Shari Plunkett wondered how to reach unhappily pregnant women. Answer: Work with HMOs.
Is Hell Forever?
Annihilationists anticipate one ultimate destiny for the wicked, an undifferentiated nonexistence.
Theology for the Rest of Us
The church needs to recover doctrine from its academic captivity.
Bringing Up Babies
It takes a church to raise the McCaugheys’ septuplets.
More PK Downsizing
McCartney admits staff morale problem.
Terrorism: Bombings Inflame Religious Tensions
Muslim-Christian tensions remain high.
Vineyard: Costa Rican Coffee Finances Urban Outreach
A Costa Rican church underwrites an urban outreach effort with premium coffee sales.
A Postmodern Primer to Doctrine
Glossary included
Satan with a Stethoscope
Novels you don’t want to read before surgery.
Putting Death in Your Daytimer
Reading as memento mori.
Finishing Well
After achieving success, early retirees are finding significance in second-career mission assignments.
Me? Apologize for Slavery?
I may not have owned slaves, but I’ve benefited from their having been used.
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Evangelicals Are Not an Interest Group
Our message is not, We put you in office, now pay up; but rather, This should be done because it is right.