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• Died: Gospel for Asia Founder Athanasius Yohannan

  09-05-2024 21:30 via christianitytoday.com
  
  The champion of “native missions” trained more than 100,000 evangelists but got in trouble for financial mismanagement.Athanasius Yohannan, who built one of the world’s largest mission organizations on the idea that Western Christians should support “native missionaries” but got in trouble for financial irregularities and dishonest fundraising, died on May 8. He was 74 and got hit by a car while walking along the road near his ministry headquarters in Texas.Born Kad
  
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• I Didn’t Want a Baby. I Wanted This Baby.

  09-05-2024 17:00 via christianitytoday.com
  
  Mourning miscarriage means acknowledging the particular life that’s been lost.You’re young. You can try again,” the phlebotomist says as he sticks a needle in my arm. He’s drawing blood for tests that will confirm what ultrasounds are already saying: I am miscarrying. I recognize the young man’s attempt to offer comfort and receive it as such. What I do not say is, It’s not that I just want a baby.Before this third pregnancy, I’d told my husband I was do
  
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• Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Train

  09-05-2024 16:00 via christianitytoday.com
  
  I’m learning that motherhood is less about technique and more about wisdom and formation.Almost six months ago, I had my first baby. Ever since, I’ve been thinking about sleep: how long; how deep; whether it’s happening in a car, on a walk, in a lap. And I’ve been thinking about how to achieve that sleep faithfully, honoring both the dignity of my baby and my duty as a mom.For many new parents, sleep is a controversy, a series of choices that open you up to criticism. Som
  
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• Spanish Evangelical Party Makes a Bid for European Union Parliament Seat

  09-05-2024 15:00 via christianitytoday.com
  
  Long-shot campaign needs 15,000 signatures for the chance to get on the ballot.Eye-catching election placards are popping up across the European Union. They appear overnight in public squares and in front of train stations, along the Autobahn and the Champs-Élysées and many lesser-known rues, strassen, and calles.With bright colors and bold slogans, each promises to make a difference in the European Parliament, if only passersby will vote for their party in the upcoming election.&l
  
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• Bringing the City of God to the Cities of Earth

  09-05-2024 13:00 via christianitytoday.com
  
  Christian urban designers and developers explain how their faith affects their work—and how their work affects your faith.The design of our communities shapes how we interact with one another, love one another, and grow with one another. But who shapes those communities?
  In a broad sense, we all do. Our choices of where and how to live, learn, work, and worship collectively influence the market, ministry decisions, and what feels “right” and “normal.” But some profe
  
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