B&C's annual baseball preview, 2006 edition.

Michael Penn explains what the early church meant by the "holy kiss."

Plus: Amazon.com changes coding to please abortion activists, Pat Robertson's funding jumps, and other stories from online sources around the world.

“I wonder if that's how people who don't go to church feel the first time they visit somewhere.”

How to make important choices without dividing the group.

The praise-and-worship music craze has apparently worn out its welcome with many of our readers, who definitely agree that record labels shouldn't require their artists to do it.

Plus: Orthodox Church orders investigation, what seminarians really want, and other stories from online sources around the world.

Hindu nationalists crack down on ministry to poor, sick.

The U.K. and disaffected American researchers lash out at U.S. cloning laws.

Plus: Franklin Graham on 'Nightline'

Be a good steward of the building, land, and other resources that God has given to your church.

It's been a while since tennis legend Bjorn Borg was in the news. Too bad he's back because he's selling his Wimbledon trophies.

Learn how to cultivate an atmosphere of giving.

Plus: Who pushed Boston's Catholic Charities out of adoptions? NYTMag on "wrongful birth" and conditional love, and other stories from online sources around the world.

The mission of the church does need to be reclaimed from modernism, but we don't need postmodernism to tell us so—we have Scripture.

Our modern notions of money and possessions blind us to the reality that everything belongs to God and therefore our church community.

He examines our faithfulness, and rewards our labors. The results are in His hands, not ours.