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Cultsploitation and True Believers
Being duped and blinded to the truth is no laughing matter. So why are we so obsessed with cults?
The 2012 Leadership Book Awards
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Pushing Back the Desert: Niger’s Christians Get Creative for Daily Bread
‘Give us this day our daily bread’ is both a prayer and a project for Christians living in one of the world’s poorest countries.
Evangelicalism’s Hidden Liturgical and Confessional Past
How to Be an Effective Mentor
Making devoted disciples.
Who’s to Blame for the Mideast’s Unmerry Christmas?
Plus: The Pope and Ahmadinejad, Kansas’ abortion battle, what happened to Jesus’ foreskin, churchgoers remember Ford, and other stories from online sources around the world.
“Summer’s Ebullient Finale”
A richly varied anthology offers a “spiritual biography” of autumn.
Sideways
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How to Be an Effective Mentor
The what, why, and how of ministry apprenticeship.