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The heart of rock and roll is in … Mongolia?
Rock music in America is on life support. The Black Keys, once at the vanguard of the genre’s big resurgence…
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Faith
‘Nightmares and Daydreams’ Fuses Jakarta’s Social Ills with the Supernatural
Indonesia is an enchanted culture full of folklore involving ghosts, demons, and djinns (shape-shifting spirits from Arabian and Muslim mythology).…
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Opinion
Remembering talk show legend Phil Donahue — and his least favorite guests
A little show & tell from Phil We just lost Phil Donahue. He began in Ohio, 1967, and told me…
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Wanted: No Visa Issues, Fast Wi-Fi, and a Ballroom that Inspires Intimacy with God
This September, about 5,000 Christians will assemble in Incheon, South Korea, for the Lausanne Movement’s Fourth Congress on World Evangelization.…
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Can Christian Publishing Survive in a Country Whe…
Only 1 out of every 1,000 Indonesians is an avid reader, according to UNESCO’s 2012 reading interest index. The country…
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Pakistan’s Presbyterians Have United. Reconciling Will Take Time.
On March 25 of this year, a group of Pakistani Presbyterian church leaders gathered in one of their homes. There,…
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The Precarious Position of India’s Christians—and Its Democracy
During the last decade in India, a Hindu nationalist government has taken the helm, and Hindutva ideology, once considered as…
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A New Blueprint for Chinese Churches: Beyond the Four Walls
A scroll-shaped steeple. An imposing ark-shaped atrium. A pipe organ feature reminiscent of 19th-century North American Methodist churches. These are…
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Sunday Best in India: Christian Women Weigh What to Wear to Church
While Christianity in India is as old as the early church itself, it was the modern missionary movement initiated by…
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3 Ways I’ve Learned to Support China’s Christians Better as an American Pastor
I serve as senior pastor of a medium-sized church in Cary, North Carolina. Besides being multicultural and multiethnic, we are…
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