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We’ve made the marketplace and money, technology and science, everything. But it isn’t. And there is one thing in particular it isn’t.

After a bout with a sore throat, nine-year old Jason started to cling to his parents and obsess over noises outside his bedroom window.Jason looked like he needed a counselor but he really needed time and some antibiotics. Read more about PANDAS, a startling reaction to strep throat.

There have been few things more damaging to the church’s witness than how it has handled moral failure among its leaders.

SBC's Bob Stith speaks out on Charles Worley's plan to get rid of gays

As they moved toward the baptistry, candidates were expected to recite the Creed, not to show that they “meant business” but in order to show that they were now entrusted with a glorious mystery of the faith, expected to preserve this for the next generation. (Read more)

The ultimate obscenity, the most profane word in the English vocabulary, the one personal epithet that cannot be hurled, is the “R” word. "Responsible."

On Saturday, April 21, Charles Wendell Colson died. On Wednesday of this week, I attended his memorial service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

David Barton claims that Thomas Jefferson included the miracles of Matthew 9 and 11. Look at Jefferson's own words to fact check this claim.

Maurice Sendak, who just died, doesn’t seem, at first glance, to have much to teach Christians. But this atheist with a cynical outlook and a foul mouth saw something of the fallen glory of the universe we followers of Jesus sometimes ignore.

Our goal is to remove every barrier that exists between such persons and their acceptance of the scandal of the cross … except the scandal of the cross!

Why does the current administration seem to feel the need to attack religion?

Getting Jefferson Right is a book that examines claims made in The Jefferson Lies

It’s been a breathtaking week on the culture front in relation to homosexuality.

David Barton says Thomas Jefferson questioned the Trinity after he left the presidency. What did Jefferson say?

It’s amazing the degree to which outreach strategies rest on a single, and deeply flawed, premise: That people want what you have to offer.

With the help of Glenn Beck, David Barton has promoted confusion about Thomas Jefferson. Will he recant with his upcoming book?

How much do you know about Thomas Jefferson and his religious beliefs and actions? Take this brief quiz to find out.

The headline is simple, but profound: “Mainline Protestants and Catholics who dominated the 20th century are literally losing ground to the rapid rise of Mormons and, increasingly, Muslims.” (RCMS Study)

My prayer for our nation's media, as delivered at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia this National Day of Prayer 2012.

Designing and marketing a newspaper to people who demonstrate no interest in reading the existing newspaper presents a challenge.