Volume 51, Number 2
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Key elements of the most controversial and misunderstood movement in the church today.
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A young organization models what it might mean to be the church in a suffering world.
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"Is hell nothing more than eternal torture of the unsaved? Why would God engage in punishment that seems so cruel?" -- Tony De Luca, New York, New York
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