More than 10,000 Southern Baptists gathered in Indianapolis last week for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC was confronte...
How do you lose a million members—in one single day? Last week, in just one vote, the United Methodist Church experienced a massive exodus as a group ...
The verdict is in. Just hours ago, a Manhattan jury found former President Donald J. Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. The...
Mother's Day tends to bring out the very best in our culture—and simultaneously to bring out the very worst. The nation’s recent experience of Mother’...
The Houston Chronicle reports that more and more churches and denominations are turning to media advertising as the way to raise their public profiles, attract new members, and stem membership losses. The article by Richard Vara is truly interesting. ...
George Lucas' Star Wars saga is now complete, or so we are told. With the cinematic release of Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith, the story is fully developed and the massive film project is certain to be a commercial success. The Revenge of the ...
The issue of day care for children has been hotly debated for decades, with only a few dedicated souls brave enough to speak the truth. A stable, loving home environment with a caring mother is best for children. Where this is not the case -- even wh ...
The following is a pastoral prayer by John Piper that concluded his sermon on Romans 8:3-9, How the Spirit Does What the Law Could Not Do. Dr. Piper's prayer is a wonderful distillation of the Gospel: O Lord Jesus, I am by nature a rebel and find mor ...
Are we witnessing the moral abandonment of the human embryo -- by evangelical Christians? The Orlando Sentinel published a release from Religion News Service yesterday, indicating that conservative Christians are shifting toward the use of human embr ...
The Church of England Newspaper reports that bishops of the Episcoal Church, USA will meet next month in an unprecedented conference. The issue of homosexuality -- most recently broght to the point of crisis by the election of an openly-gay bishop -- ...
The Advocate, the nation's most influential homosexual magazine, has published a most interesting article at its Web site. Finding Inspiration for Gay Rights by Julie Dorf presents the basic arguments promoted by the International Gay and Lesbian Hum ...
Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code, continues to sell in record numbers. The suspense thriller is actually an undisguised attack upon Christianity. In my initial review, Deciphering the Da Vinci Code (written just as the book was published), I expl ...
Dear readers, your letters and e-mails mean a great deal to us. That's why we are especially distressed that our e-mail files (filled with thousands of messages) have disappeared into the ether of empty nothingness. They have simply vanished. The rea ...
Honestly, I'm not making this up. I somehow overlooked the May 14 edition of The Boston Globe, and therefore missed the report that Harvard University's humanist chaplain is set to retire this summer. Seriously folks, Harvard has an endowed humanist ...