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Most children don’t know that there is much more to the real Saint Nick than toys and cookies. In addition to being generous, the jolly fellow...

Joseph Pekara, who grew up in Czechoslovakia during the Great Depression and subsequent Nazi regime, knew the value of a single gift at Christmas....

In January, the joy of giving will give way to the pain of "payment due." Bills are not pleasant for anybody, but there is one bill that all...

When we draw closer to God, you see, we begin to understand just how much greater He is than anything we can grasp. Our instinct is to make God...

While Christianity is the principal target of North Korean religious repression, it also offers North Koreans the greatest hope for the future. For...

Sixty years after the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the contrast between Shin’s story of “the ‘common and routine’ savagery...

A new report out from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life suggests that many evangelical Christians are, at the very least, badly confused...

The year 2008 shaped the future of evangelical America - and the world - in major ways. From the Olympics abroad to the presidential election at...

Is the charge of 'homophobia' the ultimate allegation of uncoolness?

We’ve got to also remember to be gracious if we happen to encounter a tired store clerk who wishes us a “happy holiday.” What kind of a witness is...

A mover and shaker in the conservative movement passed away yesterday after almost four decades of leadership. Paul M. Weyrich died at age 66.

Until the other day, I would have said the Bible was somewhat indeterminate on when life begins. But as I was reading the Christmas story in Luke 1...

Sacrifice, love, logic, playfulness, creativity, connection, work—take some time this Christmas to rent a new DVD and let a little robot remind you...

In reading Standiford’s history of “A Christmas Carol,” if not Dickens’s book itself, one sees more clearly the humanistic understanding of...

George Bailey, like all of Capra’s heroes, “bet his life on what he believed . . . and what [he] believed was true.” The testimony of Capra, the...