Attendees of a news conference walked past boxes of donated clothes and worn-out leather couches to the back room of a dreary building where homeless men spend their nights. The…
James was scared to go outside. He’d known the fear of hiding before. James, whose full name is being withheld for his safety, had fled the military dictatorship in Burma,…
Adoniram and Ann Judson were among the first formally commissioned American missionaries. Arriving in Burma (today’s Myanmar) in 1813, the Judsons labored for six years before they saw anyone convert…
Conversations with my husband these days often center on the logistics of family life. We have to sort out what feels like infinite details: We are launching our eldest out…
About 15 percent of men in the US between the ages of 45 and 49 have undergone a vasectomy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that tubal ligation…
I would just like to point out,” said Sara Jacobs, a California Democrat speaking from the House floor, “that I think it’s very interesting that my colleague from South Carolina…
They didn’t get the message. They won’t bow down. About 2,600 years ago, King Nebuchadnezzar erected a 90-foot-tall image of gold on the plains of Babylon. He assembled his empire’s…
How do parents and teachers build resilience in kids? All cultures have stories that shape them. Children look to adults to learn resilience. If the story we suggest to children…
As a former seminary dean, I’ve interviewed lots of people for jobs teaching Christian apologetics, to equip future pastors and missionaries to defend the faith against unbelief. Almost all of…
Elon Musk may be the most polarizing figure in our polarized society—or at least Donald Trump’s only credible rival for that crown. To show my cards at the outset, I’m…
This article is slated to run in our May-June print issue later this year. We decided to share it sooner in light of the remarkable interview Ben Sasse gave to…
Imagine a well-known denomination is enjoying a season of prosperity. Attendance is high. Ministry is faithful. Prayers are answered. God feels near. The good times last for years. But then,…
Six years later, Copeland’s stocking is still hung every Christmas. And every year around this time, his parents, Matt and Taylor Walker, and their other children think about him and…
Some people are born to run. I am not. I can still recall the feeling of dread during the walk from my junior high school to my class’s off-campus running…
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I grew up on stories of resilience. I heard my parents’ stories, how they walked miles to get to school each morning up and down the steep hills of Pittsburgh…
A recent story from Canada demonstrates the grim reality of euthanasia: A husband suffering from “caregiver burnout” brought his wife to the emergency room. She’d gone back and forth about wanting…
The best way to predict the success of pro-life political strategies in a particular state is to look at that state’s church attendance rate. In 10 of the 11 states…
For nearly 50 years, the annual route for the March for Life in Washington, DC, ended at the Supreme Court in a gesture of protest against Roe v. Wade. After…
The CDC recently scaled back its schedule of recommended vaccines, removing vaccines for hepatitis A and B, meningitis, rotavirus, and others in a change that makes the US vaccine schedule look more…
In 2022, pastor Jonathan Moynihan described entering what he called the “ ‘chop chop’ phase of life,” in which he and his buddies were “doing what is necessary to make sure…
The day my fourth child was born was the first time I came face to face with the reality that my ability to bear children is temporary. For one full…
I vividly remember crying in the kitchen with my wife, Lauren. I was doing some dishes when Lauren put a pregnancy test on the counter next to me. That moment…
I grew up in Las Vegas, and my mom took me to church a few times a year. She even enrolled me in Sunday school and a Christian high school.…
In “Go and Make Learners” (published online as “The Great Omission”), Jen Wilkin wrote in our January/February issue, “We have forgotten that discipleship requires learning. We have reduced its definition…
When Russell Moore late last year reported about “sexbots”—the new wave of high-tech pornography that gives “sad, lonely people artificial intimacy with images and machines pretending to be persons”—he was…
