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Secular Jewish Writer Comes to Faith in Christ
The popular novelist Andrew Klavan was raised in a non-practicing Jewish home. For about the first 45 years of his life, he lived as a "philosophical ...
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How All Cultures Can Domesticate the Gospel
The British theologian Leslie Newbigin told the following story to illustrate how different cultures water down the claims of Jesus:
When I was a young ...
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Atheist Finds it Hard to Shake God
An article in the Washington Post is titled "I'm an atheist. So why can't I shake God?" and it suggests that it's "hard to ...
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Evangelist Leighton Ford Meets Muhammad Ali
Leighton Ford, evangelist and brother-in-law of Billy Graham, once met the former boxing champion Muhammad Ali at a hotel in Sydney, Australia. Ford listened ...
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Buddhist Poet Longs for God's Presence
The following Buddhist poem, in the form of a "waka," was written in the 12th century by Saigyo Hoshi after he visited a Shinto Grand Temple: ...
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Ordinary Missionary Honored in India for Her Forgiveness
Vishal Mangalwadi, a Christian leader from India, writes movingly of the impact that Gladys Stains had on his nation. Gladys and her husband, Graham, ...
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The Eternal Souls All Around Us
About every ten seconds, on average about 26 people die. By extrapolating from various statistics, including death rates and world populations and religious ...
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The World Is More Religious Than Ever
Is our world becoming overwhelming secular? Not exactly, says researcher Rodney Stark. In his book The Triumph of Faith, Stark argues that our world is ...
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Survey Asks 'Do All Religions Lead to God?'
Buried within Pew's study on the American religious landscape was a startling find. Adults who identified with a specific religion were asked whether ...
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Broken People Praying to a Broken Buddha
Pastor/author J.R. Vassar writes about ministering in Myanmar (Burma) and coming upon a broken Buddha:
One day we were prayer walking through a large Buddhist ...
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