Efforts bear a mixed public blessing.

Addiction is the spiritual disease of our time.

Jamie Tworkowski’s nonprofit shows love to self-destructive teens.

Wise pastoral care for that common, insidious disease.

Flawed characters make this book stand out.

A&E's 'The Cleaner' is about tough love and redemption.

What the snark-infested news media just don't seem to understand.

Newspaper clippings document teetotalers’ dedication, even in driving rain.

Our final round on the drinking debate...for now.

Rethinking drinking.

Leaders from Frontline discuss the biblical liberty, and limitations, of alcohol.

The shifting views about alcohol among clergy.

How “vile” young Thomas Shepard met God.

Why I sometimes wish I was an alcoholic.

Missouri Baptists frown on beer as evangelistic hook.

Plus: British Airways relents on cross necklaces, McCain changes positions on reform bill amid Dobson "amends," orthodoxy trumping AICs, and other stories from online sources around the world.