Like most publications, Christianity Today has selected their Top Ten stories for the previous year. We have listed those stories, along with links to the CT article, as well as a link to the stories provided to readers of TheAquilaReport.com

1. Scandal over Baptist missionaries’ efforts to move 33 children to the Dominican Republic after a 7.0 magnitude hurricane in an already-hurting Haiti.

Related Aquila Report story: Update on Attempt to Free American Missionaries in Haiti

2. Thousands of global evangelical leaders attend Lausanne Conference on Evangelism III, gather in Cape Town.

Related Aquila Report story: Report from Cape Town 2010: “The Partnership Century” – A New Era of World-Wide Missions

3. U. S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a landmark decision on a Christian Organization’s right to fire employees who aren’t orthodox believers; World Vision wins its employment case.

Related Aquila Report story: Federal Court: World Vision can Hire, Fire Based on Faith

4. With a Republican landslide in the House of Representatives during the midterm elections, Pro-Life Democrats lost half the number.

Related Aquila Report story: Rep. Chris Smith, unofficial Pro-Life Leader in Congress: ‘New U.S. House Arguably Most Pro-Life Ever’

5. In a case involving whether student groups must open all positions to all students – even those who oppose the group’s core values – the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Christian Legal Society chapter at the Hastings College of Law.

Related Aquila Report story: Supreme Court takes case of student group that bars gay members

6. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf brought the creation care debate to the forefront. Appealing for ‘full corporate accountability’, Baptist Theological Seminary dean Russell Moore called it a “defining moment.”

Related Aquila Report story: The Gulf of Mexico and the Care of Creation

7. In light of Uganda’s proposed anti-gay bill, which would punish homosexual acts with life imprisonment or even the death penalty, American evangelicals find themselves at odds with African Christians.

Related Aquila Report story: Ugandan church leaders take responsibility for proposed anti-homosexuality law

8. Under pressure amid debate on the historicity of Adam brought about by his appearance in a BioLogos video, prominent Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke resigns from Reformed Theological Seminary

Related Aquila Report story: OT Professor Bruce Waltke resigns from RTS Orlando Faculty amid historical Adam and Eve controversy

9. Spotlighting questions about pastoral response to gay Christians, contemporary Christian musician Jennifer Knapp announced she is in a same-sex relationship.

Related Aquila Report story: Jennifer Knapp & Larry King: Why We Always Lose This Debate

10. After the pastor of a small church in Gainesville, Florida, sparks worldwide condemnation by first threatening to publically burn a Qur’an, only to relent at the last moment, Terry Jones promises never to burn one.

Related Aquila Report story: It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over – Pastor Jones says he was lied to; Qur’an burning ‘suspended’, not cancelled