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Last month, Life Always, the group behind the website ThatsAbortion.com, put up a billboard at the corner of Watts and Avenue of the Americas in...

America's childcare industry is heavily regulated. But the same pains are not taken to protect the elderly in nursing homes, often just as weak,...

From teetotaling Baptists to Episcopalians who uncork champagne in the parish hall, what to do with the bottle can be a tricky question for...

Love that will not take “no” for an answer, that never gives up, that refuses rejection of its offer, is not love, but an attempt at tyranny.

If you can get a small book on eternal destiny to the top of best-seller lists by sending out heretical-sounding promotional materials that garner...

In the name of tolerance, gay-rights groups have convinced Apple to ban another Christian iPhone app.

The best-laid plans couldn’t prepare for a trio of simultaneous disasters: quake, tsunami, and a nuclear power plant in meltdown.

No society or culture lasts forever. All eventually collapse—the United States will not be the exception. So what are some of the spiritual...

What does the growth of Christianity in China mean for that nation’s communist government?

Great suffering and horrific natural disasters point to the problem that theologians call theodicy, a kind of defense of divine justice in the face...

A recent essay by Brian McLaren helps us all to understand what is at stake in the controversy over Rob Bell’s new book, Love Wins.

America is not the solution to all the world’s problems. But that doesn’t excuse us from exercising our power and authority in a just cause.

Did we doom ourselves to environmental catastrophe by reining in the Environmental Protection Agency? Not exactly.

When Ken Isaacs got on the train from Tokyo to Osaka last week, he couldn’t find a seat. Thousands of people were fleeing the city in fear of...

Lawler decided to practice as a Muslim for the forty days as a part of his “Giving Up Church for Lent” emphasis at St. Stephen’s Church.