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"Cities do not last. Those built in precarious places collapse. The rest are doomed to decay or suffer humanly induced destruction." That is the assessment of historian Felipe Fernandez-Arnesto. He spoke those words with reference to New Orleans...

The books I have listed below have been those I continue to refer back to. Some, I first read over twenty years ago, but the ideas I gleaned from them continue to influence my thinking. My list of "most influential" reflects my convictions as a...

CCM takes you behind the scenes with a revealing introduction to Point of Grace's new member, Leigh Cappillino, and gives you the inside scoop on how her presence and other influences are changing the group's chemistry — not to mention its music. ...

Surely, Americans, given the indisputable superiority of the free market over the statist model, no longer needed reminding of the abject failures of socialism, collectivism, wealth distribution, prime-the-pump "stimulus" spending, Keynesian...

Dr. Scott Stripling and a team of archaeologists say they may have found the location of the Biblical city of Ai from the Old Testament.

We tend to live as though money, lots of money, is a necessity for the lives we choose to live. Whereas Jesus teaches that wealth, the love of wealth, is perhaps the biggest obstacle to coming to true faith.

The Rev. Franklin Graham concluded his 50-state Decision America Tour prayer rally in his home state of North Carolina today.

Dr. Barbara Lee Fredrickson is a psychology professor and head of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Lab at the University of North Carolina. She and her team surveyed six hundred Americans to ask about their daily activities and correlate...

We reveal who we truly are in how we respond when the stakes feel high. The higher the stakes, the more vivid and accurate the self-revelation. In those moments, our actions scream truth louder than any spoken claim or image portrayed. Will we do...

Beyond being one, holy, catholic and apostolic, local churches were entities that had definition and form, structure and purpose. They were not simply doing "community" in the broadest of senses, much less simply pursuing ministry.

Hatred of the Jews is perhaps the oldest hatred in the world. Typically, anti-Semitism is perceived as coming from far-right, white supremacists or radical Muslim extremists. However, according to a new student group called the New Zionist...

History is full of examples of societies that tamper with God’s design for marriage, sex, and the family.

We need heroes; we believe in saviors. Throughout human history, as Joseph Campbell showed us, cultures have told stories of heroes who brought hope, solved problems, created meaning. Heroes can be in stories we create, such as Superman and...

Previously, we saw how capital punishment is compatible with love, honors God’s sovereignty over life, and encourages the condemned to repent and be saved. Now, let’s finish our discussion by looking at three biblical counter-examples to...