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Over at "On Faith," a debate is raging over this question: Is it hypocritical to think that a woman can lead a nation and not a congregation? That...

At the risk of gross over-simplification, there are three primary ways of looking at reality, at least among those of us who reside in the West. ...

Among the persistent themes in this season of campaign rhetoric is jobs. Americans have a curious love/hate relationship with work. In the Book of...

"I will try any vehicles I can think of to get folk's attention... I try to find ways visually, try to find stories, try to have people tell...

The young man was alone in his room, smoking cigarette after cigarette. He knew he had a big decision to make. Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been a...

The Archbishop of Armagh asserted not too long ago that “reason” may be applied to Scripture texts that seem to condemn homosexuality so that a...

What kind of god would be plausible in this postmodern age? Taken by itself, that question represents the great divide between those who believe...

G.K. Chesterton once observed that while it is important to win the lost to Christianity, leaders also must "convert the Christians to...

A day after hosting presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, Rick Warren preached that a politician's soul is as important as his...

In the last seven years, the number of Americans who believe in Hell as a place "where people who have led bad lives, and die without being sorry,...

The content of the Athanasian Creed stresses the affirmation of the Trinity in which all members of the Godhead are considered uncreated and...

In the aftermath of the most recent Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Church, Albert Mohler interviewed Rev. Canon George Conger. He is an...

Worship pastor Phil Christensen considers the differences between 'Near Sheep' and 'Far Sheep.'

As a little girl, 'playing church' was great fun and a delightful way to pass an afternoon. Playing church is, however, a pathetic and meaningless...

Can the gospel spread, and thousands be converted, and churches grow, and love abound where Christianity is continually spoken against?