WORLD's Top 25 articles for 2014

1. World Vision reverses gay marriage decision

RELIGION | Board member says the organization never meant to undermine the authority of Scripture | By Jamie Dean | March 26

2. Unreal sales for Driscoll’s Real Marriage

RELIGION | Document suggests Mars Hill Church bought its pastor’s spot on the New York Times best-seller list | By Warren Cole Smith | March 5

3. Set adrift

RELIGION | One prominent proponent of ‘biblical patriarchy’ destroyed his ministry with his transgressions. His downfall offers lessons to other leaders | By Jamie Dean | April 5 issue

4. Bill Gothard placed on administrative leave

RELIGION | The board of directors of the Institute for Basic Life Principles to investigate claims that Gothard years ago engaged in sexual harassment and other misconduct | By Warren Cole Smith | Feb. 27

5. Gungor drifts from biblical orthodoxy

MUSIC | Michael and Lisa Gungor’s latest work reveals a band transcending not just musical genres but religious ones | By Jeff Koch | Aug. 2

6. Walking through fire

LIFESTYLE | Despite dementia, Elisabeth Elliot Gren holds fast to Scripture | By Tiffany Owens | March 8 issue

7. Wheaton’s ‘gay celibate Christian’

SEXUALITY | The evangelical college’s counselor believes she cannot change her sexual orientation, but others say that denies God’s ability to heal | By Julie Roys | Dec. 11

8. A Wheaton discussion of homosexuality

SEXUALITY | Former lesbian Rosaria Butterfield found controversy and opportunity on her recent visit to a Christian college campus | By Marvin Olasky, Philip Ryken, Amanda Morris, and Rosaria Butterfield | March 1

9. The Henry search for church harmony?

SEXUALITY | Responding to pressure to unify the church by denying Scripture and accepting homosexual behavior | By R. Albert Mohler Jr. | April 26

10. Homeschool leader disavows ‘patriarchy’

EDUCATION | HSLDA founder Michael P. Farris criticizes the teachings of former ministry leaders Doug Phillips and Bill Gothard | By Daniel James Devine | Aug. 28

11. Mahaney, Harris leave Gospel Coalition council

RELIGION | The pastors’ absence from the ministry’s leadership team comes amid a child abuse scandal involving a former member of Covenant Life Church | By Daniel James Devine | May 19

12. Mars Hill Church moves to destroy documents

RELIGION | A group of former members asks for a delay, suggesting forthcoming lawsuits | By Warren Cole Smith | April 4

13. The curious case of Bowe Bergdahl

MILITARY | The Army sergeant’s former pastor speaks about the soldier’s controversial release | By Jamie Dean | June 3

14. Actively engaged in the abortion battle

ABORTION | A pastor’s plea to not sit on the sidelines and hope this horrific genocide of the unborn works itself out | By Matt Chandler | Jan. 4

15. Raining on Bart Ehrman’s Easter parade

RELIGION | A group of biblical scholars respond to the anti-Christian author’s latest attack on the divinity of Jesus | By Michael F. Bird and Simon Gathercole | April 19

16. Bill Gothard resigns from ministry

RELIGION | IBLP’s longtime leader steps down amid allegations of sexual harassment and other misconduct | By Warren Cole Smith | March 7

17. Resuscitating compassion

ABORTION | God is in the middle of this story of a doctor who saved a baby who saved the doctor | By Dick Peterson | Jan. 25 issue

18. One in a billion

ABORTION | A terrible health condition has helped Christian Buchanan to be a blessing to many | By Mary Jackson | Jan. 25 issue

19. The rising tide of Muslim converts to Christianity

RELIGION | David Garrison says millions of Muslims are converting to Christianity | By Warren Cole Smith | July 28

20. Supreme Court rejects homeschooling asylum case

SUPREME COURT | After a six-year legal battle, the Romeike family faces deportation | By Emily Belz | March 3

21. Management mania

RELIGION | Christian youth organization struggles to survive financial turmoil | By J.C. Derrick | May 3 issue

22. Mark Driscoll resigns as pastor of Mars Hill Church

RELIGION | The embattled co-founder of the Seattle megachurch steps down from his ministry post | By Warren Cole Smith | Oct. 15

23. Answers to a biblical-theological-ethical question

ABORTION | How do pro-life Christians obey God’s command to honor a president when he supports the right to kill the unborn? | By John Piper | Jan. 11

24. Acts 29 to Mark Driscoll: Resign and seek help

RELIGION | The church-planting network board calls on its co-founder to step down as pastor of Mars Hill Church | By Warren Cole Smith | Aug. 8

25. Homeland Security allows German homeschoolers to stay

HOMESCHOOLING | In a surprise move, the Obama administration gives the Romeike family permission to remain in the United States indefinitely | By Leigh Jones | March 4

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