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University Professor Stands Up for His Faith
At age 26, Ken Elzinga joined the faculty of the University of Virginia. After a tenured colleague warned him that being explicit about his faith would ...
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Christian Convert on the Run in Afghanistan
The New York Times profiled a 32-year-old man in Afghanistan named Josef. He briefly escaped civil war in his home country by fleeing to Germany, where ...
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Muslim Man Provides Insights on the Church
In his book Vanishing Grace, Phillip Yancey writes about a Muslim man who told Yancey, "I have read the entire Koran and can find in it no guidance on ...
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Bill Maher Says 'Religion Must Die'
Comedian Bill Maher has made a career of attacking Christians. In his film Religulous, Maher offered up this complaint of religion in general and Christianity ...
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Journalist Discovers a Pervasive "New Intolerance"
Editor's Note: This article excerpt was published in The New Statesman, a British magazine described as "left of center." Cristina Odone is the former ...
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Persecuted Nigerian Pastor Praises God
The Nigerian city of Jos sits on Africa's great fault line between the Muslim north and Christian, and thus has faced terrible things in recent ...
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Warning Label from Football Helmet Makers
Schutt Sports, a major supplier of football helmets for the National Football League, issues the following warning label on all their helmets and on their ...
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Adversity Made Abraham Lincoln an Effective Leader
The movie Lincoln provides a glimpse into some of the challenges that President Lincoln faced while he was in office. But the level of suffering this ...
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Are Christians the New Jews?
Here's an interesting perspective on the state of the global church from a Jewish rabbi who asks, "Are Christians the new Jews?" He means ...
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Unknown Christian Brings Bibles into North Korea
In their book The Privilege of Persecution, Carl Moeller and David Hegg tell the following story about a courageous believer who has helped their ministry ...
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