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Samuel Rodriguez, James Hoffmeier, and David Skeel chart the best road to approach 'the stranger.' more >>

Samuel Rodriguez, James Hoffmeier, and David Skeel chart the best road to approach 'the stranger.' more >>

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Resilient evangelicals vow to restore Haiti, body and soul. more >>

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Southern Baptist educator Helen Driscoll dies, Gordon Donoho appointed to head Christians in Action Missions International, and other transitions in the Christian world. more >>

Brian McLaren's 'new' Christianity is not so much revolutionary as evolutionary. more >>

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John Calvin has given the Pulitzer Prize-winning author a way of seeing that imbues her novels with the grandeur of God. more >>

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'I want to cultivate a campus-wide community of grace.' more >>

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast.... more >>

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Israel's new plan to build 1,600 apartments for Jews in Palestinian-claimed east Jerusalem overshadowed Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the West Bank on Wednesday.... more >>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home.... more >>

The Associated Press-GfK Poll on President Obama, the direction of the country and health care was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from March 3-8. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,002 adults. Interviews were conducted with 702 respondents on landline telephones and 300 on cellular phones.... more >>

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) -- Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move.... more >>

KHOST, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing inside a U.S.-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two NATO service members.... more >>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Legislation blending help for the jobless with popular tax breaks for businesses and individuals is slated to pass the Senate Wednesday over protests from conservatives who say it adds too much to the $12.5 trillion national debt.... more >>

PUL-E-CHARKHI, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised the possibility Wednesday that some of the U.S. forces involved in the Afghanistan surge could leave the country before President Barack Obama's announced July 2011 date to begin withdrawal.... more >>

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Marie Osmond told a Las Vegas Strip audience as she returned to the stage less than two weeks after her son's apparent suicide that she has relied on her spirituality to cope with his death... more >>

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mike Dunleavy and the Los Angeles Clippers parted company for good Tuesday, barely a month after he relinquished his head coaching duties to focus solely on being general manager.... more >>

Kobe Bryant hit a 17-foot fallaway jumper with 1.9 seconds left, and the Lakers rallied in the fourth quarter to snap their three-game losing streak. more >>

Terrell Owens is headed to Cincinnati to see if the Bengals are interested in adding him to their stalled-out passing game. more >>

Mike Dunleavy was shocked that he was fired as general manager of the Los Angeles Clippers, barely a month after relinquishing his head coaching duties. more >>

Twins reliever Joe Nathan has been diagnosed with a torn ligament in his right elbow, leaving the team without a proven closer less than a month from Opening Day, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. more >>

The Browns released former Pro Bowl quarterback Derek Anderson one day after the acquiring Seneca Wallace in a trade with the Seahawks. more >>

Carl Edwards will not be suspended for intentionally wrecking Brad Keselowski's car during last weekend's NASCAR race in Atlanta. more >>

Kansas City signed running back Thomas Jones to a two-year deal worth $5 million, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter. more >>

Rafer Alston is content with his decision to leave the Heat, because it wasn't about losing his starting job. more >>

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Top draft pick Stephen Strasburg has made his spring training debut for the Washington Nationals, pitching two scoreless innings against the Detroit Tigers. more >>

Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says the possible expansion of the Big Ten could create changes in major college football that force the Fighting Irish to give up their football independence. more >>

Hal Steinbrenner says the New York Yankees won't alter their policy against contract extensions and will deal with Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Joe Girardi after the season. more >>

Dozens of protesters lined up outside a banquet hall where Michael Vick received an award on the same day the Eagles exercised their option on him. more >>

The WNBA's Tulsa Shock will hold a news conference Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET to announce the signing of former track star Marion Jones. more >>

Alex Rodriguez says he is "at ease, no matter what" with his relationship with a Canadian sports doctor embroiled in a cross-border drug smuggling investigation involving human growth hormone and another drug. more >>

After distributing emergency tents to quake-affected families, Habitat for Humanity began to clear ground on Monday to build the first of 36 permanent homes in Chile. more >>

The ninth of ten American volunteers who were jailed in Haiti on child abduction charges was freed and landed in Miami Monday night. more >>

Christian volunteers and foster parents at a Moroccan orphanage were forced to abandon dozens of children on Monday after they were accused of proselytizing. more >>

Family and friends will gather Tuesday afternoon to mourn the loss of a Frisco, Texas, pastor who died of an accidental overdose. Barry Keldie died Friday. more >>

The head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America returned to Web stage on Sunday to take questions from a divided denomination. more >>

Canadian Anglicans have agreed to move ahead with the disestablishment of several churches, according to an announcement Monday. more >>

Before the congregation of First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill., Winters shared about the day of her husband’s death and the struggles she encountered thereafter. more >>

Republicans and some staunch pro-life Democrats in Congress are threatening to derail current health care reform efforts over the issue of abortion funding as Congress heads toward a final showdown on the contentious legislation. more >>

The Christian faith must be born again, says one prominent pastor. And to be born again, Christians must be unlocked from "a prison" of long-held assumptions and have the freedom to ask honest questions. more >>

A conservative group in the Church of England says Christians in the United Kingdom will face an “even more difficult environment” following last week’s vote by the House of Lords to lift a ban on civil partnership ceremonies in churches. more >>

A court in West Java has reversed the revocation of a Catholic church’s building permit. The church sued the Purwakarta regency for revoking the approved building permit in Cinangka village last October more >>

The first way we waste time is through what I call “dead works.” more >>

The scenario is well known, and the story still haunts the modern mind. more >>

Never have so many done so much to accomplish something that so few want. That about sums up the Obama Administration obsession to ram the so-called healthcare reform package through a reluctant Congress. more >>