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"It is well and good for the preacher to base his sermon on the Bible, but he better get to something relevant pretty quickly, or we start mentally...

Some 230 years ago, Josiah Wedgwood designed a medallion featuring an African in chains to generate conversations about slavery. Today, two women...

The battle over how Christian the founders were is likely to continue in Texas and across the country. The truth lies somewhere in between the two...

Russell Turnbull, who was nearly blind in one eye, has had his sight almost completely restored, thanks to a pioneering procedure using stem cells....

Tiger Woods made a remarkable statement of confession. But the most remarkable aspect of his confession is its Buddhist shape. American Christians...

Does faith have a role in global warming debates? Yes, of course it does. It has a role in all debates. It provides the underlying worldview, the...

David Lapp, age 22, is now happily married. In a Wall Street Journal column, he deals head-on with objections to young marriage.

What began as a correspondence between atheist Christopher Hitchens and conservative Christian Douglas Wilson has led to a co-authored book, a...

Judge Bernard Saint-Vil said two volunteers would not be freed. Laura Silsby, the group's leader, and her nanny are being kept for further...

If you hate religion so much that you can't bear to see a person like Mother Teresa honored, you need to take a hard look at your own worldview.

The question is not whether the church under persecution may be blessed. The question, rather, is whether we want the blessings that come to those...

Lisa Miller is taking Harvard University to task for its "crisis of faith" -- which amounts to a crisis in its curriculum for undergraduates. As...

Given what’s at stake, inconvenient snow and cold has to be explained away, even as leading climate change scientists admit that no significant...

Evangelical Christians will rightly reject just about everything found in this new report from the Religious Institute, but they should not avoid...

A few hours outside Kigali stands a village built entirely by the sweat and volunteer labor of repentant offenders—by men and women who...