Escalating health-care costs bid the church to get creative.

Senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in College Park, Maryland, and coauthor (with George Barna) of a new book, High-Impact African American Churches, on trends in black churches.

Recent quotes on Amish voters, Christian politics in Germany, book burning, and the UK's abortion scandal.

Following God On Broken Legs

A savory collections of essays by Alan Jacobs.

The birth of Christ is only the final stop when meditating this holiday season. An excerpt from Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year.

Tom Wolfe's new novel, largely reviewed as a satiric report on the sexual mores of today's college students, is fundamentally about the nature of the human will.

How perpetrators are more gullible than their victims. An excerpt from Cleaning Up.

More than a semi-annual crack at irregular churchgoers, the Christmas sermon has traditionally invited us to worship and wonder.

For adult children of divorced parents, the holidays aren't as happy as they are supposed to be. Author Jen Abbas has some advice.

And a warning about the risks of reading.

A 30-year-old ponders his spiritual journey in the evangelical subculture.

The difference between welcome and inclusion

The School of Dying Graces says costly lessons lead to priceless wisdom.

The Vanishing Word laments the loss of the logos.

America is not so generous, free, and innocent as it imagines itself.

An interview with Caroline Westerhoff, author of Good Fences: The Boundaries of Hospitality.

All the Music of the Bible surveys melodies from Creation on.

A longtime TV physician's tortuous search leads to an informal apologetic.