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  Rick Warren finds new purpose in weight loss

  Megachurch Pastor Rick Warren has become an outsized evangelical superstar as best-selling author of The Purpose Driven Life series, pastoral mentor and even political referee. Now, Warren is finding a new purpose—tackling his outsized waistline.

  03/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Politics & Media: Learn to recognize bias, determine reliability

  Voters need to be aware of their own biases, including those in their own faith tradition. Then they also must look for the bias that the media they use also likely will reflect.

  03/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Bearing false witness still a sin, even in campaign season

  When a politically volatile email arrives warning Christians about some elected official's action or some candidate's position that sounds so horrible it's hard to believe—don't believe it, some pastors suggest. And for heaven's sake, don't forward it.

  03/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Faith & politics: Making choices in a fallen world

  Christians should be realistic in their expectations when it comes to finding a candidate whose values mirror their own.

  03/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Young singer finds strength and stability in Christ

  Jamie-Grace Harper's Grammy Award-nominated contemporary Christian song, "Hold Me," grows from her own experience of God's sustaining grace as she has struggled with Tourette syndrome.

   

   

  03/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Faith Digest

  For the fourth year in a row, President Obama is proposing lower tax deductions for the wealthy on donations to churches and other nonprofit organizations.

  03/01/2012 - By Administrator

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  Knicks’ Jeremy Lin dubbed the ‘Taiwanese Tebow’

  New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin's underdog story and outspoken evangelical faith have some sportswriters dubbing him the "Taiwanese Tebow."

  02/24/2012 - By Administrator

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  Finding Christ in popular culture

  Some evangelicals say films like the Academy-Award-nominated Tree of Life, with their subtle treatment of Christianity, fall short of an adequate alternative to what they regard as Hollywood's decadent values. But are explicitly Christian films essentially propaganda pieces?

  02/18/2012 - By Administrator

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  Critics’ choices in Christian themed movies

  Hollywood's century-old repertoire of films offers a rich lode of Christian themes, say some observers who see value in mining for them.

  02/17/2012 - By Administrator

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  When it comes to tithing, Mormons put others to shame

  When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney re-leased his federal tax returns for the past two years, he disclosed he and his wife, Ann, gave about 10 percent of their income to their church. In other words, they tithe.

   

  02/17/2012 - By Administrator

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  Faith Digest

  Muslims in the United States and Canada are more than satisfied with the secular legal system and do not want a set of parallel courts for Islamic law, according to a new study of North American Muslims by a Washington-based think tank.

  02/16/2012 - By Administrator

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  Can evolution and Christian faith co-exist?

  A recent LifeWay Research poll showed three-fourths of Protestant pastors reject evolution, and nearly half believe the earth is about 6,000 years old. A biologist with a scientific interest in the evolution-creation debate attributed the results to a commonly held—but false—idea that science and faith cannot be reconciled.

  02/10/2012 - By Administrator