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Just as you can’t buy indulgences that allow you to go right on sinning without any consequences, you can’t buy carbon offsets that allow you to go...

It just might be the softest sounding word for any sin in the world. It seems so harmless that even many Christians grab their morning paper and...

Thailand is a warm, welcoming society. A majority Buddhist nation, Thailand leaves religious minorities alone. Yet Bangkok's policy of religious...

A new book reveals a previously unknown side of Mother Teresa through her private letters written over 66 years. This book was not produced by her...

The death of Dr. D. James Kennedy is yet another reminder of what the hymn writer Isaac Watts saw when he wrote that "time, like an ever rolling...

Cavemen are popular once again. No, I'm not talking about those successful Geico commercials. I'm talking about the two discoveries that came out...

Dangerous teenage stunts may be seen on YouTube and other Web sites eager to “cash in” on the fun: kids stapling their mouths shut, jumping off...

For the first time in more than 30 years, Mother Teresa graces the cover of Time magazine. But unlike the 1975 cover that hailed her as a living...

Instead of following along with our self-obsessed, comfort-minded culture, Christians should expect suffering. It's the rule, not the exception.

I recently returned from my sixth ministry trip to the Eastern European country of Moldova. I’ve had the opportunity to travel there on an...

Millions of us are frustrated with the illegal immigration mess. And now, feeling stuck between a rock and a hard place as we try to wrestle with...

Every week throughout the year in China, approximately 70,000 people do something very different: they, too, pay a price, but it’s not measured in...

Those making the case for a Christian appropriation of Allah must take their argument in one of two trajectories...

Since 1782, the Latin phrase E pluribus unum—“out of many, one”—has appeared on the Great Seal of the United States. But what happens when we...

Have you ever been caught taking Bibles into a communist country? I hear that question a lot and, actually, the answer for me is “Yes.”