Volume 53, Number 8
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Amid our purity pledges and attempts to make chastity hip, we forgot to teach young Christians how to tie the knot.
Mark Regnerus
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Angel Food Ministries settles a lawsuit, Oral Roberts University reduces most of its debt, and other news in the Christian world.
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The archbishop of the new Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) explains an alternative to the Episcopal Church.
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Six principles that might bring a truce to the age-old tension between tradition and popular culture.
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Richard Nelson Bolles on discerning God's will when facing unemployment.
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What I've learned as life has taken a turn for what most people think is the worst.
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Nancy Guthrie, the author of Hearing Jesus Speak into Your Sorrow, offers a list of new and classic titles.
Nancy Guthrie