Spiritual Life Archives

If my story is all there is, the disasters in my life are meaningless! They are just chaotic shipwrecks that steal from the flow of a story that I...

"I have an old Bible that belonged to my grandmother, and it's difficult to understand. Where do I begin? How can I get more out of reading the...

Even without a Christian father, I was blessed to be loved by a dad with high standards and moral values. Now, I'm concerned about the shift I've...

Recently, Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers was one out away from throwing the 21st perfect game in Major League Baseball history...

If you build relationships with people wherever you meet in your everyday lives, you can generate momentum that will help them eventually connect...

Recently, I was studying what causes people to feel spiritually frustrated. The two top reasons? Bible study and prayer. I get that.

Scripture memory is a wonderful discipline, but people need to internalize more than a Bible verse or two. Stories - in particular biblical stories...

The U.S. leads the world in the percentage of mother-only families, but research overwhelming shows that God's original design for the family -...

"The singular thing about Bonhoeffer that recommends him to this generation is that he calls us to a closer, authentic walk with Jesus," says...

In the story of the Battle of Jericho, the Commander of the Army of the Lord informed Joshua that He was on "Neither" side. Has that ever struck...

Is it true that lurking within every religious believer lies a potential terrorist and that if we get rid of religion the world will be a safer...

For too long, we evangelical Christians have maintained an uneasy ecological conscience. I include myself in this indictment. We believe in free...

Especially these days, when Memorial Day seems nothing more than a time for cookouts and swim parties, we cannot be reminded often enough about how...

Stories and characters, along with the morals and themes of good fiction give voice to our own views. They're therapeutic for us as readers. And...

A Texas pastor and grandfather shares with his family how witnessing a local deployment of National Guardsmen changed him.