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Recent statistics on who voted Democrat and churches offering election materials.

67%

Voters who never go to church who voted Democratic in 2006.

55%

Voters who never go to church who did so in 2002.

41%

White evangelicals who say they are unhappy that the Democrats won the midterm election.

41%

White evangelicals who say they are happy that the Democrats won.

50%

Black Protestants who say their churches offered election materials.

30%

White evangelicals who reported this.

Source: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

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Andrew Walls: Historian Ahead of His Time

The Town that Loves Refugees

Belonging Before Believing

The Early Church on Jesus

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Three Models of Hell

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Nepal's New Peacemakers

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The Problem with Mere Christianity

Defining Business Success

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Death-Defying Ministry

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Shedding Light on <em>The Dark Tower</em>

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Reflections: Winter

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The New Intolerance

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My Ministry Space

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Compassionate Conservatives

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What Iraq's Christians Need

Five Streams of the Emerging Church

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Quotation Marks

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Equal-Opportunity Offender

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Passages

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Bottom-Up Discipline

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Asbury Flap

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