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Dearth of Jobs, Death to the Family?
The church must meet society's looming challenge.
By Collin Hansen

Spotlight: Robert Park's North Korea Mission
A 28-year-old missionary was reportedly inspired by the martyrdom of Robert Jermain Thomas.

Philip Ryken Named Wheaton's Next President

Q+A: Philip Ryken, Wheaton's Next President
'I want to cultivate a campus-wide community of grace.'
Interview by Sarah Pulliam Bailey

“Robust growth”

Number of Catholics in U.S. increases, while most mainline Protestant denominations lose members, report says [full story]

Summer courses for high school, college students and CEOs

Santa Paula, California, and Vienna, Austria [full story]

African American Lectionary project affirms Black culture and faith

Using culture as a lens to view the black community, the African American Lectionary project in the USA is providing a one-of-a-kind technological resource designed for and by African American preachers, educators and worship leaders. Full story

'Do Something' Changing San Diego

City Heights and 'The Price of Renewal'

Sun Myung Moon of Unification Church turns 90 as his son assumes key responsibilities

Michigan's first black Lutheran church started in Detroit homes
Oralandar Brand-Williams ("Detroit News," February 23, 2010)

Detroit, USA - In 1930, a group of black families meeting in their homes formed Michigan's first black Lutheran church for the small number of black families who missed their Lutheran roots in the South. They held rotating church services in their homes to form St. Philip's Lutheran Church. The parish, first recognized as a mission church, shared a pastor with a church in Windsor, Ontario.

Agency that monitors religious freedom abroad accused of bias
Michelle Boorstein ("Washington Post," February 17, 2010)

A Passion for Homeless Christians

After Feminism: What Are Girls Supposed to Do? [Guardian, UK]

'Jesus Was a Rebel'
Okay, he was. What's your point?
By Brett McCracken

Gay Marriage Leads D.C. Archbishop to End Foster Care Program

Countless Lost Limbs Alter Life in Haiti's Ruins

By DEBORAH SONTAG

New amputees are facing life in a shattered country that has never been hospitable to the disabled.

Marketing Jesus
How to "sell" the church without the selling the church short.

Snowblowing etiquette

Cop killed in crash brought 'pastor’s sensitivity' to work

Mary Mitchell : Thanks to black farmers who didn't give up

Bloggingheads: Say It Ain’t So, Tiger
Robert Wright and Ann Althouse debate Tiger Woods as role model.