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More than one third of teen guys and girls say they have been physically, emotionally or sexually abused in dating relationships, a new survey...

Scientists love to study how happy parents are (or aren’t). Year after year, news outlets report on the topic, touting studies that they say either...

Eritrean authorities are punishing 39 high school students for their Christian faith, excluding them from a graduation ceremony and subjecting them...

After 12 years serving a church in Diyarbakir, Turkey, voluntarily and peacefully, Jerry Mattix suddenly is on the country's blacklist.

During the first half of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, the Somali militant group al Shabaab carried out more than 100 attacks mostly in and...

Following the April suicide of their son, Rick and Kay Warren have a new purpose for Saddleback Church: removing the stigma of mental illness from...

By now you’ve heard that pastor and bestselling author Rick Warren returned to the pulpit this past Sunday for the first time since his son’s...

Creating a vital single parent ministry in your church is a growing trend. Volunteers become a necessity in such ministries. How do you retain &...

A new Florida State University study has found that adolescent boys who are hurt in just two physical fights suffer a loss in IQ that is roughly...

A slight majority, 52 percent, of Americans would support a national referendum making gay marriage legal in all 50 states, according to a Gallup...

A Muslim leader in central Nigeria has abducted a pastor's daughter and forced her to convert to Islam with the backing of a sharia court, the...

The world is changing, and in some ways the church must learn to change with it. Blogger Christopher Smith takes a moment to share what he believed...

If we wait until we can do everything perfectly, we will still be sitting here when the Lord returns. Let us be up and doing.

Swearing is Serious Business

No matter how good you design a church service to be, if the children's ministry is bad, people won't come back - unless they're folks without...