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With All Your Mind: Approaching God as Complete Beings

Ivan Plis | Monday, 23 August 2010 18:46

Robert A. Fryling, publisher of InterVarsity Press, pens a work that is fit for leaders and purpose-filled people alike in his 2010 book The Leadership Ellipse. In this response, Fryling's musings on a renewed mind are applauded as spurring on thoughtful Christian scholarship.

To Change the World

administrator | Tuesday, 10 August 2010 14:04

Evangelical activism fueled movements from the abolition of slavery to the "culture wars" of the 1980s. As the millennial generation gains influence, how will these efforts change? Will they succeed? Should they even try? Watch IGE's Anna Carrington tackle to these queries in response to Dr. James Hunter's recent work, "To Change the World."

Eritrean Christians and the Eritrean Constitution

Andrew Wiegand, Jr. | Wednesday, 02 September 2009 15:54

There are compelling reasons for Eritrea to implement its Constitution and to allow greater freedoms for religious minorities. These reasons include greater national security, economic benefits for the government and its citizens, Eritrea's removal from the U.S. Department of State's Country of Particular Concern (CPC) list, and a more respectable international image.

“For the Faith of the Forefathers and for Traditions”: Patriarch Kirill and Orthodox-Catholic Relations

Hannah Kett | Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:14

Patriarch Kirill, recently enthroned as head of the Russian Orthodox Church, strives to maintain international dialogue and continue the relative peace that exists between different branches of the Christian faith. It is still uncertain what this will mean for Catholic and Protestant believers in Russia.

Neighborhoods, Churches, States: Presidential Faith-Based Offices and the First Amendment

John Fournelle | Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:19

Both President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama established offices to bring faith-based organizations and the federal government into beneficial partnerships. The key difference between President Bush and President Obama is their view of the constitutionality of the OFBCI and OFBNP respectively.

Thorough Thinking: Sider’s Latest Scandal

Bryan Dean | Tuesday, 10 February 2009 16:16

In his book, The Scandal of Evangelical Politics, Ron Sider broadens his scope to address the whole range of political issues that ought to concern evangelicals. Published 30 years after Sider's most famous work, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, this volume follows in the footsteps of Jim Wallis' God's Politics. While Wallis jumps into the debate of evangelical political activity with his quills blazing, Sider takes the time to lay out a carefully constructed evangelical philosophy for political engagement.