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with contributions from Carrie Whitaker, Grant Slater

WHEN TIM SPOLETI became a mentor, it changed his life.
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with contributions from Tim Johnson, George Barna

SOME 140 YEARS AGO, a Methodist missionary with a flowing beard stepped aboard a sampan in coastal China and held on firmly as boatmen steered up the Min River, poling and rowing past rapids that almost splintered the vessel.
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with contributions from Tom Bawden, Dan Sabbagh

AN ESTIMATED 27 MILLION PEOPLE are living in slavery today.
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with contributions from Richard N. Ostling, Steve Bray, Christie Storm

PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT of key religious developments is the ongoing, inexorable shift of Christianity's population and dynamism away from the West and toward a markedly different style in developing nations of the "Global South.
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with contributions from David Dorsey, James Buescher

ABOUT ONE-THIRD of [National Football League] players openly celebrate their Christian faith, according to The Christian Science Monitor, but they encounter just one problem.
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with contributions from Bill Sherman, Kim Shippey

MORE THAN TWO DOZEN CHURCHES have joined together to pray nonstop for Tulsa and the state during 2007, Oklahoma's centennial year.
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with contributions from K. Connie Kang

Clinical psychologists kept spirituality and religion out of their practice, while some religious people looked askance at psychotherapy.
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with contributions from Jane Lampman

DESPITE HAVING A JOB IN COMMUNICATIONS that she loved, Deborah Little kept feeling she wasn't doing what she was meant to do with her life.
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with contributions from Harry de Quetteville, Karen Gram, Miroslav Volf

Occasionally, readers ask why a particular subject was covered on these pages.
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with contributions from K. Connie Kang, Elizabeth Kelleher, Ben Arnoldy

FOR YEARS, surveys have shown that more than 80 percent of Americans pray regularly.