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Our Grad Fellowship Prayer gathering this morning once again returned to the April FOCUS Article (CMU Faculty and Staff Paper) The Unenlightenment by Patrick D. Larkey . We may very well make conversations around this topic the focus of our fall endeavors. Please pray for July which will be set aside to seek God's direction for the coming academic year. Comments on this article coming soon. Feel free to express yours in advance.

Some conversation occuring at the blog of one of the students on the recent NY Times piece on evangelicals.

Christianity Today w/more on Evangelicals, "When I return from such trips and read profiles in Time and Newsweek about U.S. evangelicals, I feel sad. Many Americans view evangelicals as a monolithic voting bloc obsessed with a few moral issues. They miss the vibrancy and enthusiasm, the good-newsness that the word evangelical represents in much of the world. Evangelicals in Africa bring food to prisoners, care for aids orphans, and operate mission schools that train many of that continent's leaders. There, and in Asia and Latin America, evangelicals also manage micro-enterprise loan programs that allow families to buy a sewing machine or a flock of chickens. About a third of the world's 2 billion Christians fall into a category to which the word evangelical applies, a large majority of whom live outside North America and Europe."