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[Also: Making the Unclean Clean | The Many Faces of Martin Luther] Also: Making the Unclean Clean | The Many Faces of Martin Luther | [View online]( [Christianity Today Direct Newsletter]( Monday, November 20, 2017 INTERVIEW [The Truth about Suicide]( More and more Americans are taking their own lives. How the church can step up. Interview by Morgan Lee In 2015, more than 44,000 Americans died by suicide — one death every 12 minutes, as the Department of Health and Human Services put it. The overall suicide rate has grown by nearly 30 percent over the past 15 years, prompting some to call it a new public health crisis. Al Hsu knows this reality personally. Nine months after the InterVaristy Press senior editor got married, he received a phone call from his mother. "Daddy killed himself," she told him. The aftermath of his father's death sparked Hsu to reflect and research, the results of which found their way into Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One's Search for Comfort, Answers, and Hope, first published in 2002 and re-released this year. [continue reading >>]( News [Zimbabwe Can Be Born Again: Church Leaders Explain Mugabe-Military Crisis]( As politicians and media debate coup, evangelicals see 'opportunity for the birth of a new nation.' Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra Speaking Out [Making the Unclean Clean]( Seeing God's redemption in a toilet bowl. Kevin Orner Book Review [The Many Faces of Martin Luther]( Herman Selderhuis's biography proves that just about every adjective, good or bad, can apply to the great reformer. Frank A. James III The Exchange [The Problem of Suicide: How is the Church Caring for those Impacted?]( A church without the broken is a broken church. Ed Stetzer Pivot [28 Non-Numerical Signs Of A Healthy Church]( Numbers are not the only way to determine church health. In many situations, they're not even the best way. Karl Vaters In Case You Missed It Interview [Stephen Mansfield: Why So Many Conservative Christians Wanted a 'Pagan Brawler' in the White House]( And how their choice of Trump has affected the church since last year's election. Interview by Samuel D. James News [China Tells Christians to Replace Images of Jesus with Communist President]( Propaganda effort in poor province latest sign of Xi Jinping consolidating control. Kate Shellnutt Women [The Sweatiest Bible Class in America]( Revelation Wellness puts Scripture at the center of its group fitness program. Johanna Willett Book Review [Reliving the Reformation, As It Happened]( Craig Harline portrays the suspense-filled early years of Martin Luther's movement, when the outcome was anything but certain. James R. Payton Jr. News [American Family Values Increasingly Focus on Finances]( Study of Trump and Clinton voters finds the economy spilling more into home life. 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