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Scores of United Methodist pastors in Southern California are planning to defy church law by performing same-sex marriages. And they claim to do so...

Compassion has been, and always should be, the role of the faith community. Let's pray that our future president—whoever he may be—will continue to...

On Tuesday, Barack Obama gave an address on the Iraq War. It was a bizarre speech, as if it had been written two years ago—when it would have made...

Underneath the modest surface, there was something about this quiet, unassuming man that held one’s attention. In an investment world full of...

Even greener-than-thou Europeans are protesting the high price of fuel. Their leaders, like ours, are rightly worried about oil prices destroying...

The “mainstream” media probably didn’t tell you, but July 16 was this year’s “Cost of Government Day.” That’s the date on which the average...

Why do you do what is right, rather than what is wrong? That is hardly a new question. More recently, moral philosophers have settled on a more...

Even more than rooting for our athletes this year, we need to be rooting for the triumph of the oppressed over the tyranny that wants to silence...

When you read Tony Snow’s op-ed pieces, you were engaged and learned something. It was a trait he would display a decade-and-a-half later, behind...

Former White House press secretary and conservative pundit Tony Snow died Saturday morning after a second bout with cancer. He was 53.

Frustrated men will make their presence felt, as Beijing is learning. After the first generation of “one child” boys hit adolescence, China’s...

In her column published today Ellen Goodman addresses the controversy surrounding Thomas Beatie, the "man" who gave birth to a baby girl just weeks...

After refusing to talk to Pyongyang for years, the Bush administration chose “appeasement”—as its own officials often deride negotiations. So far...

1948 was a year for big events - it was also the year that A. W. Tozer wrote The Pursuit of God—a small book, but one that has profoundly...

If the prospect of commercials featuring child actors hawking cholesterol-reducing drugs seems outlandish, it should not come as a surprise—not in...