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  • Pro-family groups applaud blockage of Disclose Act
    A campaign finance bill that many pro-family groups say would limit their ability to get their message out and possibly lead to the intimidation of donors was blocked in the Senate July 27 when Democrats failed to get any Republicans to support it.

  • Rankin: 40-years of Gospel mission
    Taking his 15-year-old grandson to the Amazon Basin, where they traveled in dugout canoes down the Amazon and ate monkey, exemplifies the whatever it takes missionary heart of retiring International Mission Board Presidet Jerry Rankin.

  • Bill seeks to 'shut down' pregnancy centers
    Proposed federal legislation to regulate advertising by pregnancy centers is just another attempt to shut down the competition, according to Care Net, a network of more than 1,100 such centers.

  • Rankin, IMB no strangers to change
    After 17 years as president -- and 23 more on the mission field -- retiring International Mission Board President Jerry Rankin and the 164-year-old organization are not strangers to transition and change.

  • In Haiti, WMU team helps calm fears
    Six months after Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-7 earthquake, relief efforts are still going strong -- and Haitians whose lives were upended by the disaster are curious about the faith that has sent so many Christians to help them.

  • FIRST-PERSON: Simplify family worship
    Columnist Donald S. Whitney gives tips for how to begin a family worship time.