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MF Behind the Scenes

God's Glory among the Nations: What Is It Worth to Us?

As evangelical Christians, we often speak of living to glorify God. I usually sign my columns here with, "For His Glory." But what does that really mean in our everyday lives? How does this desire...

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Tags: hindu, hinduism, india

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Editorial Comment

This particular issue of Mission Frontiers is not really just about violence and suffering in India. Just hours before our press time the government changed hands in India, the world's largest...

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What is True Spirituality? Feature

What is True Spirituality?

The gruesome death of Graham Staines and his two sons reveals, among other things, a sterling example of a faithful witness.

"OH, INDIA!" came the first heavily-weighted words sent out by one of...

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A Friend in India Other

A Friend in India

Through my window I can see the words "William Carey Block" on a recently constructed wing of this Indian High School. Later this year, if completed, a multi-purpose auditorium at Hebron...

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Tags: hindu, hinduism, india

Attacks on Christians Are Increasing in India Other

Attacks on Christians Are Increasing in India

This article on recent violence in India was published by The New York Times before the world was aware of the Staines tragic death that very day.

January 23, 1999 Jarsol, India

In this hamlet...

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How Ought We Respond? Feature

How Ought We Respond?

"Christians Attacked!" "Missionaries Murdered!" "Nuns Raped!" "Church Buildings Razed!" These headlines have riveted attention and focused prayer on the 50-year old republic for the last 12 months....Read The Full Article

Tags: hindu, hinduism, india

Can Hindutva Survive the Persecution of Christians in India? Feature

Can Hindutva Survive the Persecution of Christians in India?

A personal analysis and some recommendations.

Interpreted literally as "Hindu-ness" but increasingly implying a radical vision of a Hindu nation, Hindutva may be at risk as the democratic party embodying their vision loses a parliamentary vote...

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Christ-Followers in India Flourishing– Outside the Church Feature

Christ-Followers in India Flourishing– Outside the Church

A Review of Churchless Christianity, Herbert E. Hoefer

Here a younger man brings to light a truly epochal study not yet taken seriously. Is it too radical for us? Is this like Peter at first protesting against God's welcome to the Gentile household of...

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Tags: hindu, hinduism, india

Follow-Up Reflections on Churchless Christianity Feature

Follow-Up Reflections on Churchless Christianity

If you could envision an India won for Christ, what would its religious life be like?

—Herbert Hoefer

Returning from a recent trip to India, the original author of the astounding study...

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A Call to Advance God’s Kingdom Other

A Call to Advance God’s Kingdom

It should be noted that our warfare as Christians is not against human beings, flesh and blood, as the Scriptures say, but against Satan and all of his principalities and powers in high places that...

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Suffering and Martyrdom Other

Suffering and Martyrdom

God's Strategy in the World

Jesus Christ, as King of kings and Lord of lords, calls people to Himself and demands from them total allegiance to Himself. Nothing of this world, not father or mother, husband or wife, son or...

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How the World Religions View Suffering Other

How the World Religions View Suffering

The attitude of Buddha toward suffering. The gentle Buddha...summed it all up in the startling conclusion: "Existence and suffering are one." He went further than saying that there is suffering in...

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Tags: hindu, hinduism, india

The Joshua Project Listing of 229 Untargeted Peoples Other

The Joshua Project Listing of 229 Untargeted Peoples

Introduction

What are the criteria for the Joshua Project List? The Joshua Project peoples are "country-distinct" peoples each over 10,000 in population that were chosen, by their...

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Delivering the Goods Other

Delivering the Goods

Southern-based Student Mobilization launches a traveling team incorporating discipleship and training into its vision for the nations. 

The Student Mobilizer is a new, regular feature to MF's...

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A Candle in the Dark Other

A Candle in the Dark

A Remarkable New Film on the Life of William Carey Celebrates His Landmark Role in Launching the Modern Missionary Movement

In the annals of Protestant missionary efforts, few luminaries shine...

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Tags: india, william carey

Kids Korner Other

Kids Korner

Exciting events around the country! By the time you read this, the NW Regional Children's EXPO in Portland, Oregon, and the SW Regional Children's EXPO in Riverside, California, will both be...

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News

Laborers for the Harvest: Baptist Laborers

Richmond, Virginia

The International Mission Board of the Southern Baptists (IMB) welcomed 338 long-term workers to the field in 1998. Additionally,...

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