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Why is there such religious confusion today? The two largest religious bodies on earth are Roman Catholicism and Islam. Most "mainstream" Protestant churches are losing members by the hundreds of thousands! Meanwhile, the Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses are growing rapidly. So are the emotion-laden "Pentecostal" churches, which are gaining many members from the ranks of former Roman Catholics, especially in Central and South America. What is going on? Where is it all leading?

Are recent weather catastrophes the fault of "global warming"? Are they random shifts in a long-standing weather pattern? Or is there something more significant behind the increase in severe weather events around our world?

Everyone has heard of Harry Potter. You may even know a few Wiccans who worship "the goddess." Yet few realize that a pagan revival is extending to where you might least expect it—to churches calling themselves "Christian"!

Millions of people throughout the western world have read The Da Vinci Code. This last summer, millions saw a film based on the novel. It is challenging the faith of many churchgoers! And it is confusing millions about what the Bible really says.

Not long ago, most people assumed that slavery was a thing of the past, and that the idea of one person holding another as property—to be used involuntarily, by coercion, for the master's benefit and profit—had disappeared as human civilization had become more civilized and enlightened.