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Rush Limbaugh may indeed be the wrong spokesperson for conservative principles, but the call for a wholesale abandonment of those principles is not...

An 27-year-old man walked up the aisle at First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill., exchanged a few words with Pastor Fred Winters, then pulled a...

Ultimately, what distinguishes modern environmentalism from the Christian idea of stewardship isn’t the degree of concern for the environment. It’s...

Some may imagine that poverty is the worst thing that can happen to a people, but it is not. It is worse if a people lose a moral compass.

I have been thinking: maybe fasting is the best way to think about the economic crisis—treat it as an extended Lent.

While technology has many worthwhile purposes, it demands a high price from us. So, here’s a challenge—take a technology sabbath.

Inevitably, a genuinely Christian vision of aging and the aged will represent a counter-thrust against the spirit of the age.

The federal government would be forced to recognize "gay marriage" and to provide benefits to such same-sex couples if a lawsuit filed March 3 in...

Some of President Obama's Justice Department appointments are causing particular alarm among Christians. The three top appointees—David Ogden,...

Moral men have a duty to help their neighbors, but nobody has the right to force other people to help.

The problems of old age are now routinely assigned to institutions, nursing homes, hospitals, and other settings – a far cry from when most...

In his new book, The Last Goodnights: Assisting My Parents with Their Suicides, lawyer and author John West publicly tells a story that most people...

In a country that treasures freedom, what could possibly justify compelling people to violate their consciences? We cannot sit idly after the Obama...

The Obama administration announced Friday (Feb. 27) plans to rescind regulations that allow healthcare workers to abstain from performing medical...

Our non-churchgoing friends in Britain are proof that scientific theory cannot ultimately eradicate what’s written on the human heart.