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A mystery is afoot among our neighbors to the north, elegant in its simplicity but with pat answers slowly unraveling the longer you think about it. It is a maddening…

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Stopping Climate Change Is a Part of Following Jesus

Posted on January 23, 2019January 24, 2019

Editor’s Note: This piece originally ran in Jan. 2018, shortly after COP 23, the U.N. Climate Change Conference. It was recently referenced in a tweet by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As…

MLK: The Legacy of a Nonconformist Saint

Why Martin Luther King Jr.'s call for 'transformed nonconformists' is just as important to answer today.

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15 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes That Will Challenge You to Take Action

Wisdom for instituting change.

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The Percentage of American Christians Who Believe in Climate Change is (Slightly) Growing

Posted on November 29, 2018November 30, 2018

Climate change is happening. Among experts — people who’ve devoted their professional and academic careers to the study of the environment — there is virtually no disagreement. Climate change is…

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Report: 85,000 Children May Have Starved to Death in Yemen

Posted on November 21, 2018

Save the Children, an international aid group, has calculated approximately 85,000 children under the age of 5 have starved to death as a result of civil war in Yemen. The group…

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Everything You Need to Know About What’s Going Down With Brexit

Posted on November 15, 2018

British Prime Minister Theresa May is in hot water after two members of her own cabinet have quit over their opposition to her draft plans for a withdrawal from the…

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Report: 78 Students Have Been Abducted From a Christian School in Cameroon

Posted on November 5, 2018November 5, 2018

Local reports from the Nkwen village near the city of Bamenda in northwest Cameroon say 78 students from a Presbyterian school have been kidnapped by armed gunmen. The kidnapping took…

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How Clean Water Really Does Change Everything

Posted on August 31, 2018August 31, 2018

Editor’s Note: This piece ran in March 2017. We’re re-publishing it today in conjunction with RELEVANT’s Impact Week. Today, we’re fundraising for charity: water. Want to join the cause? Donate here! The…

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8 Ways to Stop Human Trafficking in Our Own Backyard

Posted on August 28, 2018January 30, 2019

I live in a cool college town of 150,000 known for its bike paths and micro-brews. There isn’t much of a blighted area; our one strip club sold to a…

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The Christian Persecution in Nigeria No One Is Talking About

Posted on July 31, 2018

Christians in Nigeria are suffering severe persecution. Since January, over 6,000 Nigerian Christians have been killed in raids perpetrated by Fulani herdsman and Boko Haram. Many of the victims killed…

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Report: North Korea Has 2.6 Million ‘Modern Slaves’

Posted on July 19, 2018July 19, 2018

A new report estimates that one out of 10 North Korean citizens is a victim of modern slavery—the highest in the world. That number works out to be about 2.6…

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12 Nelson Mandela Quotes Every Justice Advocate Should Read

Posted on July 18, 2018January 30, 2019

It’s impossible to quickly sum up all Nelson Mandela’s accomplishments and influence—both in his home country of South Africa and throughout the world. The anti-apartheid activist turned president was known…

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Global Religious Persecution on the Rise Again

Posted on July 12, 2018July 12, 2018

According to a recent survey out of Pew Research Center, global restrictions on religious freedom increased in 2016, as it did in 2015. The Pew study analyzes data from 198…

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Organization Releases List of All 34,361 Known Refugees Who Have Died Trying to Reach Europe Since 1993

Posted on June 20, 2018June 20, 2018

Considering everything happening in the world, it may seem ironic that today is World Refugee Day, a day set aside to raise awareness of the plight of refugees worldwide. In…

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How on Earth Did This Giant Snow Drawing of a Bear Get Its Belly Button?

Stopping Climate Change Is a Part of Following Jesus

MLK: The Legacy of a Nonconformist Saint

Why Martin Luther King Jr.'s call for 'transformed nonconformists' is just as important to answer today.

15 Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes That Will Challenge You to Take Action

Wisdom for instituting change.

The Percentage of American Christians Who Believe in Climate Change is (Slightly) Growing

Report: 85,000 Children May Have Starved to Death in Yemen

Everything You Need to Know About What’s Going Down With Brexit

Report: 78 Students Have Been Abducted From a Christian School in Cameroon

How Clean Water Really Does Change Everything

8 Ways to Stop Human Trafficking in Our Own Backyard

The Christian Persecution in Nigeria No One Is Talking About

Report: North Korea Has 2.6 Million ‘Modern Slaves’

12 Nelson Mandela Quotes Every Justice Advocate Should Read

Global Religious Persecution on the Rise Again

Organization Releases List of All 34,361 Known Refugees Who Have Died Trying to Reach Europe Since 1993

James MacDonald Fired From Harvest Bible Chapel in the Wake of Shocking Alleged Comments

The Bad Lip Reading Folks Are Here to Make the State of the Union a Genuine Laugh Riot

5 Things to Never Say to Someone With Depression and Anxiety

Hillsong Has Released a Response to the Criticism They’re Anti-LGBTQ

Chris Pratt Defends His Church After Ellen Page Accuses It of Being ‘Anti-LGBTQ’

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