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  • Culture
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    • On the Back Side of the Desert
    • The Seduction of Success
    • Why People Leave the Church
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  • Finance
    • The Threat Within
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  • Higher Education
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    • Are You Dreaming BIG Enough?
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  • Growth
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    • Iranian Pastor Tortured, Threatened for ‘Converting Muslims’
    • Evangelistic Crusade Draws 800,000 in Nigeria
    • Wife of Murdered Pastor Recounts 'Hope in Chaos'
    • Houston Churches Preach Census
    • Christian Communicators Challenged to Speak the Full Truth
    • Jakes Protégé Takes Over Denver Megachurch
    • James Dobson Delivers Final Broadcast for Focus
    • Chile Quake Presents Different Challenges Than Haiti
    • Evangelical pastors lead survivor settlements outside Haitian capital
    • Two Arrested in String of Church Arsons
    • Benny Hinn 'Shocked' by Divorce
    • Millennials Have Less Religious Affiliations
    • Membership Down in Mainline Churches in Canada and the U.S.
    • Focusing on Marriage After Valentine's Day
    • Teens Wounded in Shooting at Pentecostal Church
    • Churches Celebrate 250th Birthday, Observe Reconciliation Efforts
    • Haiti Relief: First Physical, Then Spiritual
    • Advocates Focus on Building a 'Marriage Culture'
    • Goal: To Equip and Send, Not Extract
    • Church Giving Down, But What About Tithing?
    • Gayle Haggard Recounts Being 'Cut Off' From Church
    • Schuller Offers Leadership Pep Talk After Downsizing
    • American Churches Caught in Haiti 'Adoption' Crossfire
    • Church Could Crash the Super Bowl With Ad
    • Are My Sermons Making a Difference?
    • And the 'Sermon Illustration of the Week' Award Goes to …
    • Texas Church Worships With Muslims, Jews
    • When Your Building Burns Down
    • Churches Respond to Haiti Devastation
    • Haiti Pastor Rebuilds With 'Church in a Bathroom'
    • Churches Still Meeting Needs, Despite Financial Struggles
    • California Church Gaining Attention for Community Impact
    • Christian Groups Lobby to Protect Traditional Marriage
    • Will the Church Remain Relevant?
    • Megachurches Break the Racial Divide
    • Abortion Most Pressing Moral Issue
    • Warren Asks, Saddleback (Gives and) Receives
    • How Much Are You Working?
    • Hispanic Pentecostal Attraction
    • Searching for Community
    • Church Succeeds With 'Pay What You Can' Restaurant
    • Rescue Missions Respond to Increased Need
    • Will 2010 Be the 'Year of Double Portion'?
    • Following the American Dream Rather Than God's
    • Pastors Conspire Against Commercializing Christmas
    • Feeding the Hungry With … Nativity Scenes?
    • ‘Extraordinary’ Oral Roberts Remembered
    • Does Expansion Mean Losing a Personal Touch?
    • Healing Evangelist Oral Roberts Dies at Age 91
    • The Problem With Being Loud
    • Church Sells Stained Glass to Stay Open
    • Pastor's Sermon Series Leaves a Permanent Mark
    • Ministering Grace Through a Parking Ticket
    • Jesus on the Mainline (Churches)
    • British Pastors Taking It to the Streets
    • Pentecostal Prisoner Given Right to Preach
    • Pastor Scandal Brings Out Best in Church
    • Cheating Church Members
    • Church in a Day
    • Detroit Church Unloads Community Guns
    • Overseer Outspoken About Ted Haggard Meetings
    • Using Evolution to Evangelize
    • Giving 20-Somethings a Voice
    • Megachurch Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty Dies
    • If You're a Methodist Pastor, You May Not Want to Read This
    • Reaching the World, One Computer at a Time
    • Being the Church Online
    • Maine Churches Challenged for Revoking Same-Sex Marriage Law
    • Pooch Praise: Church Offers Worship Services for Dogs
    • Justice Revival in Dallas
    • Feed the Children Board Fires Founder Larry Jones
    • Foreclosing on God
    • Churches Help to Fight L.A. Homelessness
    • Detroit Pastor Forgives, Inspires After Near-Fatal Attack
    • Building Big in the Heart of Texas
    • Are You a 'One-Stop Ministry Shop'?
    • Church: We'll Pay You to Come
    • Reaching Children Worldwide With … Free Throws?
    • Believers Not on Jesus' Side
    • A New Generation's View of the Bible
    • Minister Gives Shoes to Change the World
    • When a Beer Separates You From God
    • Extreme Makeover: Megachurch Edition
    • Bible Scholar Zodhiates Passes
    • Redefining the Traveling Evangelist
    • Church, How Unstoppable Are We?
    • COGIC Targeted for Sexual Abuse
    • Pistol-Packing Pentecostal Pastor Reloads
    • Not Every Sermon Ends With YOU
    • Churches Welcome Sex Offenders, States Less Forgiving
    • To Tithe or Not to Tithe
    • Has American Charity Reached Its Ceiling?
    • Parading Religion
    • Whole Gospel: 'Basic Christian Stuff'
    • Benny Hinn Denied Entry Into U.K.
    • Pastor Forms Colony of Sex Offenders
    • Following the Script
    • Ministries Respond to Flooding in Philippines
    • Getting Government Out of the Pulpit, Take II
    • Appearing This Week: A Nation in Prayer
    • Are You Reaching 'Nones'?
    • Mentoring a Consumerist Generation
    • Coral Ridge: We Like You Tchividjian, We Really Do
    • Is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit Less Important Today?
    • Tracking the Multisite Explosion
    • Outreach Releases Annual Big & Growing Church Lists
    • Still Measuring Success by Church Size?
    • Youth Gone Wild: Teens Raise $200K for Orphanages
    • More Women in the Pulpit, But ...
    • Jesus + Church = Revolution
    • Decade Later, Wedgwood Still Significant
    • FACT 2008 Study Reveals American Church’s Vital Signs
    • Aiming for the 4/14 Window
    • Survey Says Pastors' Sexual Misconduct 'Prevalent'
    • Bible Back in Texas Schools … Now What?
    • Fijian Church Under Attack
    • Changing Uganda With Water
    • Detroit Church Partnering With Satan?
    • Why Larry Crabb Won’t Go to Church Anymore
    • Out With the TNIV, In With the NIV (Again)
    • Barna Measures House Churches
    • Oklahoma Pastor's Murder a Reminder of Balance
    • Coming to a Strip Mall Near You
    • Were Pastors Wrong for Sheltering Teen?
    • Not THE Black Church
    • Middle East Missionary Clampdown
    • The Same-Sex Domino Effect
    • Megachurch, Mega-wedding(s)
    • Efficiency Isn't the Goal
    • I See Dead People … Just Not As Often
    • Lakeland Outpouring: One Year Later
    • Church in an App
    • You Mean That Wasn't a Good Idea?
    • When Cash for Clunkers Is a Bad Deal
    • Déjà Vu in Florida
    • You're Not the Help I Was Looking For
    • Is Denominational Loyalty a Thing of the Past?
    • Selling the Cathedral
    • Congregational Coup
    • Believing Big (and Small)
    • Co-opted by the Wrong Culture
    • Tweeting @ the Western Wall
    • Hell No More
    • Women Rising in the Assemblies, Part II
    • Women Rising in the Assemblies
    • Personality Preaching
    • Church Outward
    • Now THAT's a Community Church
    • It's Just a Tool
    • On the Dark Side of Technology
    • Black to the Faith
    • Hearing the Hurting
    • Tim Tebow Leading a 'Counterinsurgency'
    • Two-for-One Deal
    • When Christians Do 'Fascinating Things'
    • Dollar-for-Dollar Giving
    • Curse You! (In a Biblical Way, That Is)
    • What's Hot: 'Churchless Christianity'
    • Like Father, Like Son
    • I'm Not Exactly a 'Pastor,' Per Se
    • No Longer a 'Place of Sanity'
    • Merging Ministries for Homosexual Outreach
    • We're a Tough Bunch … in a Good Way
    • I Get No Respect
    • From White to White
    • Camp Gonnahaftashutdown
    • We Aren't the World
    • Did Your Church Make the Crimes List?
    • Can You Say 'Innovation' (in 45 Languages)?
    • Churches Solving the Dropout Dilemma
    • Hispanic Influence on Church Called a 'Two-Way Street'
    • The Gospel of Guns (and God)
    • To Market Or Not? … That Isn't the Question Anymore
    • LAPD Names First Islamic Chaplain
    • SBC: Barack's Great, But About That Mark Driscoll Guy …
    • What's God Up to With American Anglicans?
    • The Fundamentals of Church
    • Pastor Takes Matters Into His Own Hands
    • Who's Pandering to the People? Ask Chuck
    • Giving Through Thick and Thin
    • Growing the AG Way
    • Is Our Gospel Becoming Too Social?
    • Vietnamese House Church Leaders Attacked
    • Suffering From 'Sunday School Syndrome'
    • Lighting a Candle in Los Angeles
    • Expansion ≠ Growth?
    • The Good, Bad and Ugly of Megachurches
    • Open-Source Church
    • Passing the Torch(es)
    • The Perfect Storm for a New Church
    • Tales From the Growing Underground Church
    • What Virtual Intimacy Won't Reveal
    • Can Marketing Save Denominations?
    • Forgive Us Our Enemies
    • Authorities Apologize for Bible Study Clampdown
    • Abortionist Shooting Highlights Need for Church Security
    • Blackaby Targets Pastoral Failing
    • Megachurch Thrives in Frigid New England
    • Mainline Churches Face Intensified 'Gay' Debates This Summer
    • Idols Everywhere
    • Jack Hayford Will Not Seek Second Term as Foursquare President
    • Why Church Foreclosures May Be a Good Thing
    • Did the Prosperity Gospel Cause a Church Recession?
    • Church Raided by Gay Activists Takes Action
    • Sin City Goes Wild … With Baptisms
    • Brownsville Leaders Reunite
    • New Growth for New Zealand
    • The All-You-Can-Take Offering
    • Giving to the World
    • The Forgotten Church
    • See, the IRS Isn't So Bad After All
    • New York Pastors Fight Back
    • Are We Obsolete Without Marketing?
    • So That's Why My Church Is Full of Babies!
    • Pray Without Ceasing? Not So Much
    • When the Marketing Scales Tip
    • Come Together, Change the World
    • Restoring a Praying Church
    • It's Not Luck, It's Growth
    • Who's Tweeting in My Twurch?
    • I Will Survive
    • Little Pastoral Love for Hate Crimes Bill
    • Letting Fly With the Word
    • Another Sex Series Gone Wrong
    • The Revolving Church Door
    • Changing the World One Child at a Time
    • Living (and Leading) Large in Manhattan
    • You Want a Legal Fight?
    • The Pew Switcheroo
    • Latino Pastors at Odds Over Immigration Reform
    • Yeah, About That VIP Seat …
    • Mamas Don't Let Their Babies Grow Up to Be Priests
    • You Might Be Green If ...
    • The Church Sex Fad
    • A Growing Assembly, But It's Not All Good News
    • Giving the Good and the Bad
    • We've Heard of Anabaptists, But Debaptists?!
    • A Snapshot of Your Congregation
    • Global Unbelievers
    • Punk Rock Jesus
    • Pulling Out All the Easter Stops
    • When Higher Education Hurts
    • The Church's Tech Tension
    • Pick a Church, Any Church
    • Can We Be Less Christian?
    • Blake Joins Faith-Based Council
    • Rising Above the Storm to Meet Needs
    • New Faces Seeking Help
    • Believing in a Nonbelieving Generation
    • End of an Atlanta Era
    • Fargo Floods Offer Opportunity for Area Churches
    • Small Town Meets Big-Time Forgiveness in Action
    • Redefining Marriage by the Book
    • I'm Not an Atheist, I'm Just Apathetic
    • Money-Back Guarantee ... From a Church?
    • Ministry by Default
    • Debating the Demise of Evangelicalism
    • In Rural Alabama, Not Everyone Thinks Sex Is Great
    • Minister Threatened, Attacked for On-Air Faith
    • ‘New Normal' for Pastor-less Church
    • From Kennedy to Tchividjian
    • God as a ‘Fashion Statement'
    • Generic Beyond Recognition
    • As Pastors Lean Liberal, So Goes ...
    • Church Gunman Kills Pastor
    • God's ‘Best Will'
    • Need Work? Go to Church
    • Denominational Breakdown
    • Mistaking Crowds for Churches
    • Changing of the Guard
    • A Glass Half Full for Parachurch Ministries
    • Would the Person Who Dropped $1 in the Plate Please Stand Up?
    • How the Recession Is Really Hitting Churches
    • The ‘Clergified' Church
    • Arrested for Life
    • Smells Like Teen Spirit
    • Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
    • It’s the End of the World As We Know It
    • More ‘Marginalization’ of English Christians
    • R-Rated Preaching
    • Returning to the Landmines
    • Thanks for the God Nod, Mr. Atheist
    • ‘Much of Christianity Does Not Work’
    • Habitat for Humanity Founder Finds Eternal Home
    • From Small to Smaller to … Gone
    • What Colgate and Charmin Have to Do With Your Denomination
    • Suspended by Prayer
    • Mass Miracles in Nigeria
    • Right When It Hurts
    • Religious by Region
    • The Future P90X Church
    • Reopening Old Wounds for New Life
    • Obama’s Coded Language to Atheists?
    • Losing an Emerging Generation
    • Taking the ‘Home Mission Field’ to Another Level
    • Never Too Late for Redemption
    • Megachurch’s Roof Collapses
    • Ministry That Lasts
    • Spiritual vs. Religious
    • Are We Approaching This?
    • The American Outworking of Belief
    • Default No More
    • Haggard Goes ‘Below the Belt’
    • Prophetic Movement Leader Dies
    • Global Church Crying for Cease-fire
    • Setting the Captives Free
    • In Jesus’ Name
    • Sin City’s Strip Church
    • The New Evangelist
    • A Century of Distributing the Word
    • Now-Times Prophecy
    • A Worshipping, Foreclosing Church
    • Church of England Today, Church of the Few Tomorrow
    • Sliding Spirituality
    • Isn’t This How It’s Supposed to Be?
    • Haggard ‘Miserable’ Since Scandal
    • Growth? What Growth?
    • Ghosts More Believable Than the Bible
    • Scandal for Sunday
    • ‘America’s Pastor’ on the Hot Seat—Again
    • A Church (Increasingly) Diverse … and Informal
    • Schuller Parting, Part II
    • ‘Shifting’ Into a Forced Resignation
    • A Hero in the ‘New Moral Center’
    • Down Times = Growing Times
    • Trinity Chapel Founder Falls
    • God's Bailout Plan
    • If You Can't Preach ... Sue!
    • 'Mommy, What's a Minister?'
    • The Emerging Anglican 'Reformation'
    • Todd Bentley Speaks Out
    • How Churches Are Facing the Current Economy
    • Big Boost for Bible Translator
    • Vatican to Priests: Don’t Offend the Homosexuals
    • Pledging to God
    • Is There Value in a Name?
    • Unearthing a Biblical Past
    • Convergence of Truth
    • When the Word Marked Time
    • Preaching the Big Picture
    • A Fight to Help the Homeless
    • Downsizing in the Aftermath of Scandal
    • Downsizing in the Aftermath of Scandal, Part II
    • Preacher or Pimp?
    • Haggard Speaks Out
    • War of the Boards
    • A Church Divided ... Beyond the Polls
    • Not What You'll Hear in Mainstream Media
    • A New Face, A New Day
    • Happy Birthday, Billy!
    • Without Walls Not Without More Controversy
    • Change? What Change?
    • Speaking of Candidates
    • Summoning the Church
    • Reading Scripture Through the Eyes of America
    • Blessed, But Not Necessarily Acting Like It
    • I'm Politicked!
    • Missions-minded? Not So Much
    • If You Can't Go to Africa, Go Online
    • Can't We All Just Get Along?
    • An Open-Door Crisis
    • Out With the New, in With the ... Old?
    • The Church That Isn't a Church
    • Anything You Can Do, I Can Do (With More Money)
    • Let's Not Forget
    • Restoring a Nation
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