Volume 40, Number 14
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Why spending less and turning off TV should be part of the church's mission to the world.
by Bill McKibben
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by Tim Stafford
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When Lesslie Newbigin returned to the West after 35 years in India, he found his native England had become a foreign mission field.
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by Kevin D. Miller in Chattanooga.
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Pastor, chancellor, and self-proclaimed prophet is staging a comebackto secure his standing as a leading evangelical.
John W. Kennedy in Lynchburg