First Links — 4.20.12

French Elections: Far Left and Far Right
Gavin Hewitt,  BBC

A Question for Time Magazine
Kathryn Jean Lopez,  Patheos

Has Religious Freedom Lost Its Cool?
Mikhail Bell,  Institute on Religion & Democracy

Evangelicals’ Sea Change on Conversion
Gordon T. Smith,  Christianity Today

Unicorns in the Bible?
Taylor Marshall,  Canterbury Tales

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