Darwin’s head-scratcher

Darwin’s head-scratcher

Science | How intelligent design offers the best explanation for the sudden appearance of many animals upon the earth—an event Darwin could not reconcile

Grace University

Grace University offers reconciliation to lesbian student

Homosexuality |  The Huffington Post story about a lesbian student's fight with a Christian university—complete with headlines that focus on her expulsion and resulting…

A wedding cake display at Masterpiece Cakeshop in Denver.

Another bakery sued for not making same-sex wedding cakes

Religious Liberty |  “This Homophobic Bakery will Cater Dog Weddings but Not Gay Civil Unions.” That’s the cute headline on The Atlantic Wire, the influential website of one…

Roy Costner IV during his graduation prayer.

The folly of suppressing prayer

Religious Liberty |  The Blogosphere is still debating Roy Costner IV’s decision last Saturday to defy his school district’s decision to exclude prayers from his high…

Elisha Reimer
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Excommunicating the why

Media |  When references to Jesus hit the cutting-room floor, we all miss out on the bigger story

Euthanizing sick babies to spare parents’ suffering

Euthanizing sick babies to spare parents’ suffering

Euthanasia |  Doctors in the Netherlands are now able to use a muscle relaxant that kills extremely ill children faster so that parents don’t have to suffer the pains of…

Edward Snowden

Whistleblower or defector?

National Security |  Surveillance program leak Edward Snowden awaits uncertain fate in Hong Kong

Tim Tebow works out with the Patriots last Wednesday.

Tim Tebow’s test of faith

Sports |  After the New York Jets released Tim Tebow in April, the outspoken Christian quarterback immediately tweeted Proverbs 3:5-6, a passage that talks about…

Bill Cosby

Signs and Wonders: Bill Cosby wades once again into politically incorrect waters

Newsworthy |  Cosby speaks. In a recent interview, Bill Cosby said his humor—especially his groundbreaking The Cosby Show—came from his own life experiences, and from a…

‘IT CAN’T BE ABOUT ME.’  —Bethany Jenkins, in Central Park
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The Word on the street

Religion |  New Yorker Bethany Jenkins jumped the corporate ship to write an email devotional that is catching on with the professional class

“IT’S A FREE COUNTRY”: Schultz at the March meeting.
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Investing your values

Money |  In the aftermath of Starbucks’ shareholder meeting, Biblically Responsible Investing gets another look

The ‘new legalism’

The ‘new legalism’

Religion |  How the push to be ‘radical’ and ‘missional’ discourages ordinary people in ordinary places from doing ordinary things to the glory of God

Beware of ‘comfort care’
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Beware of ‘comfort care’

Abortion |  A physician’s failure to help a baby struggling for life is comforting only to the physician

Denise Armstrong helps her son, Timothy, 8, pick out a book in a local library in Richmond, Va.

At-home classrooms filling up

Homeschooling |  As education in America’s public schools continues to suffer, parents are choosing homeschooling at an ever-increasing rate. The number of parents starting…

Connecting the dots between sex trafficking and pornography

Connecting the dots between sex trafficking and pornography

Trafficking |  Sex trafficking is the issue de jour on college campus. Students attend documentaries, hold charity walks, and put on bake sales to raise money for safe…

This undated photo provided by Oslo theater Det Norske Teatret shows actors rehearsing a scene from <i>Bibelen</i>, a six-hour play based on a nontraditional interpretation of the Bible.

The Bible becomes a bestseller in Norway

Religion |  In Norway, people are buying more Bibles than any other book. The Bible topped best seller lists in 2012 and is still popular in 2013, outselling works like

Kaitlyn Hunt

Father of 18-year-old lesbian calls daughter’s statutory rape charge unfair

Homosexuality |  An 18-year-old is accused of statutory rape with a 14-year-old schoolmate in the state of Florida. The catch: Both teenagers are girls, and the parents of…

Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk (77) holds a child after the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game.

Matt Birk skips White House visit over Obama’s support for abortion

Sports |  According to news reports yesterday, Matt Birk gave up the opportunity of a lifetime. Birk, the center for the Super Bowl-winning Baltimore Ravens, declined…

Test your level of homophobia

Homosexuality |  “Homophobia” is an interesting term. It is an entire lecture in a word. “Homophobia” decides the issue before you can open your mouth to offer your…

Jay Hunter Morris

Confessions of a redneck opera singer

Music |  Jay Hunter Morris followed his faith from Christian music to the Met, becoming one of the nation’s premiere classical performers

John Paul plays Esteban Mendoza Cruz in <i>Los Traficantes</i>.

God’s drug lord

Movies |  Feature film Los Traficantes tells the story of a Tijuana drug dealer’s transformation from addict and killer to servant of God

GAINING ACCESS: Calli Doris and a chaperone pull up to a brothel in Austin.
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Serving the sparrows

Trafficking |  Forget armed rescues. Christian volunteers fight sex trafficking by building relationships

President Barack Obama

Privacy vs. security

National Security |  Lawmakers are divided on phone records sweep

Chick-fil-A's Spicy Chicken Sandwich

Signs and Wonders: Punished for upholding the law?

Newsworthy |  Stand down. Some of us do not wonder that the number of suicides and sexual assaults in the military now approaches civilian levels. An organization that was…

Jim and Betty Crase

Teammates for life

Marriage |  Through miscarriages and frequent moves, Jim and Betty Crase learned to face life’s challenges together

Rotten to the core?
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Rotten to the core?

Politics |  Pervasive corruption could be harder to correct than wrongdoing at the top

Golf course in Doral, Florida

City within a city

City tales |  Doral, a different community of immigrants, tries to merge family values with economic growth

Tom and Tami O’Connor

Braving the desert to find the gold

Marriage |  Tom and Tami O’Connor suffered through eight years of pain before finding intimacy in Christ

The morning after
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The morning after

Culture |  Will Americans wake up from this all-night orgy?

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.

Apology time

IRS Scandal |  Back in the spotlight on Capitol Hill, IRS officials say 'sorry' for lavish conferences

Cal Thomas
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Fifty-year calling

Q&A |  From a front seat at the circus for half a century, Cal Thomas has seen a lot change in the media and in America

The Caterpillar logo is seen on earth moving equipment in Springfield, Ill.

Signs and Wonders: Caterpillar withdraws Boy Scouts support

Newsworthy |  Road kill. The Texas-based Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have been attempting to navigate the middle-of-the-road regarding homosexuality, but it looks…

Fire crowns in the trees in the Black Forest area north of Colorado Springs, Colo.

Déjà vu

Disasters |  One year later, Colorado is on fire again

Gubernatorial candidate, Terry McAuliffe, center, lieutenant governor candidate, State Sen. Ralph Northam, right, and attorney general candidate, State Sen. Mark Herring, left.

For once, this race matters

Politics |  Virginia Democrats pick a far-left nominee for lieutenant governor in a race key to the state’s pro-life progress

One of the ads sponsored by the New York City Human Resources Administration.

NYC ad campaign: Kids ruin your life

Family |  “I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen.”  “Got a good job? I cost thousands of dollars each year.” Both…

When dads fail

When dads fail

Father's Day |  Several years after my parents’ divorce, a former friend of theirs called me and, in the course of our conversation, called my father a “failure.” I…

Aaron Hartzler

The one that got away

Religion |  This is a true story: Aaron Hartzler is the oldest son of a Midwest Baptist preacher and a fervent mother who gave herself wholeheartedly to family and good…

Benedict Cumberbatch

Smaug warning: Trailer offers taste of second Hobbit film

Movies |  There be dragons—or at least one very big dragon. J.R.R. Tolkien fans got their first look at the scourge of Dale in the second installment of Peter…

Ania Joseph

IRS agent warns pro-life group against acting on ‘blind, emotional feelings’

IRS Scandal |  Pro-Life Revolution waited nearly two-and-a-half years for tax-exempt approval, a process that can take as little as three months. During the wait, the…

FOSTER THE PEOPLE: David Lambert, Sherri Saum, Jake T. Austin, and Teri Polo in the premiere episode.
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Mothers know best

Television |  The Fosters presents an idealized, fantasy view of homosexual parenting

“IT’S A FREE COUNTRY”: Schultz at the March meeting.

Investing your values

Money | In the aftermath of Starbucks’ shareholder meeting, Biblically Responsible Investing gets another look

The morning after
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The morning after

Culture |  Will Americans wake up from this all-night orgy?

‘IT CAN’T BE ABOUT ME.’  —Bethany Jenkins, in Central Park
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The Word on the street

Religion |  New Yorker Bethany Jenkins jumped the corporate ship to write an email devotional that is catching on with the professional class

Darwin’s head-scratcher

Darwin’s head-scratcher

Science |  How intelligent design offers the best explanation for the sudden appearance of many animals upon the earth—an event Darwin could not reconcile

GAINING ACCESS: Calli Doris and a chaperone pull up to a brothel in Austin.
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Serving the sparrows

Trafficking |  Forget armed rescues. Christian volunteers fight sex trafficking by building relationships

Jay Hunter Morris

Confessions of a redneck opera singer

Music |  Jay Hunter Morris followed his faith from Christian music to the Met, becoming one of the nation’s premiere classical performers

Rotten to the core?
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Rotten to the core?

Politics |  Pervasive corruption could be harder to correct than wrongdoing at the top

Mark, Evan, and Andrea Wittig
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Crowdsourcing adoptions

Adoption |  One of the latest social media tools is a website that helps couples adopt their children

The ‘new legalism’

The ‘new legalism’

Religion |  How the push to be ‘radical’ and ‘missional’ discourages ordinary people in ordinary places from doing ordinary things to the glory of God

Beware of ‘comfort care’
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Beware of ‘comfort care’

Abortion |  A physician’s failure to help a baby struggling for life is comforting only to the physician

Confused about leadership

Confused about leadership

Faith & Inspiration |  Young men aged 18-22 lined up to get their first military haircut, sweating from the Annapolis heat and humidity. They wore starched, white, pajama-looking…

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Girl Scouts versus right and wrong

Culture |  American families have trusted the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts to teach their sons and daughters about leadership and service—but the Boy Scouts last week…

Making tracks
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Making tracks

2013 Books Issue |  Superb reporting and storytelling about a modern-day underground railroad make Melanie Kirkpatrick’s Escape from North Korea WORLD’s Book of the Year

Cal Thomas
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Fifty-year calling

Q&A |  From a front seat at the circus for half a century, Cal Thomas has seen a lot change in the media and in America

Elisha Reimer
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Excommunicating the why

Media |  When references to Jesus hit the cutting-room floor, we all miss out on the bigger story

Tim Tebow works out with the Patriots last Wednesday.

Tim Tebow’s test of faith

Sports |  After the New York Jets released Tim Tebow in April, the outspoken Christian quarterback immediately tweeted Proverbs 3:5-6, a passage that talks about…

Self-published standouts
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Self-published standouts

2013 Books Issue |  The top 10 self-published books to cross WORLD's desk this year

Test your level of homophobia

Homosexuality |  “Homophobia” is an interesting term. It is an entire lecture in a word. “Homophobia” decides the issue before you can open your mouth to offer your…

Denise Armstrong helps her son, Timothy, 8, pick out a book in a local library in Richmond, Va.

At-home classrooms filling up

Homeschooling |  As education in America’s public schools continues to suffer, parents are choosing homeschooling at an ever-increasing rate. The number of parents starting…

This undated photo provided by Oslo theater Det Norske Teatret shows actors rehearsing a scene from <i>Bibelen</i>, a six-hour play based on a nontraditional interpretation of the Bible.

The Bible becomes a bestseller in Norway

Religion |  In Norway, people are buying more Bibles than any other book. The Bible topped best seller lists in 2012 and is still popular in 2013, outselling works like

The use of a baby
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The use of a baby

Culture |  A generation’s idea of ‘freedom’ challenges the human enterprise

Donald Berwick

The coming Obamacare disaster

Healthcare |  For years I have been writing about the failures of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) as a warning for what the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare)

What would you do to live?

Faith & Inspiration |  In a heartbreaking story, a Plymouth, Mass., teenager died in March after eating half a store-bought cookie that had a little peanut oil in it. He had been…

John Piper

John Piper on homosexuality

Homosexuality |  A thoughtful pastor’s teaching on what the Apostle Paul says about homosexual behavior in his letter to the Romans

Grace University

Grace University offers reconciliation to lesbian student

Homosexuality |  The Huffington Post story about a lesbian student's fight with a Christian university—complete with headlines that focus on her expulsion and resulting…

 BILL-SHARING: The Hesses review paperwork.
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Growing in a loophole

Healthcare |  In the era of Obamacare, Christian medical bill-sharing groups are rapidly adding members

STAGE AND SCREEN: Harper performing in Chicago.
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Curtain calling

Lifestyle |  Shane Harper and his family are fighting to keep him grounded—and a Christian—in Hollywood

Rachel Carson (left) and Betty Friedan

Aging badly

2013 Books Issue |  Two books celebrating 50th anniversaries in the past year offered cures worse than the disease

A vintage engraving of Adam in the Garden of Eden

A biblical and scientific Adam

Science |  A challenge to evangelicals who have backed away from an historic Adam, using a theologically informed look at ape ancestry genetic claims

Connecting the dots between sex trafficking and pornography

Connecting the dots between sex trafficking and pornography

Trafficking |  Sex trafficking is the issue de jour on college campus. Students attend documentaries, hold charity walks, and put on bake sales to raise money for safe…

President Obama meets in the Oval Office with his National Security team, including Avril Danica Haines (top right), in March.

Foxes in the henhouse

National Security |  “On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of men” (Psalm 12:8). From here on in, we steer a fine line between two verses:

Orphaned children hold on to their toys at the Bethel foster home for the care and education of blind and disabled children in Lan Fang, China.

China clamps down on families who rescue abandoned babies

China |  China has banned groups and individuals from privately adopting abandoned infants, making it much harder for babies without families to find good homes. The…

Do all our desires need to be satisfied?

Faith & Inspiration |  My daughter worked at a bagel shop in Oakland, Calif., and now and then a customer would walk in with a dog. She would explain to the human on the other end…

Euthanizing sick babies to spare parents’ suffering

Euthanizing sick babies to spare parents’ suffering

Euthanasia |  Doctors in the Netherlands are now able to use a muscle relaxant that kills extremely ill children faster so that parents don’t have to suffer the pains of…

Journey of grace
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Journey of grace

Q&A |  From lesbianism to the parking lot to church: An interview with author Rosaria Butterfield

Counting the costs of getting hitched

Counting the costs of getting hitched

Culture |  When Marguerite Bowker from Long Island, N.Y., received an email wedding invitation last year to a “Barbecue Wedding” for her daughter, she was stunned.

When dads fail

When dads fail

Father's Day |  Several years after my parents’ divorce, a former friend of theirs called me and, in the course of our conversation, called my father a “failure.” I…

Agent exegesis
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Agent exegesis

IRS Scandal |  The IRS targeted more than Tea Party groups for special investigations. The agency also went after religious, pro-life, and pro-marriage groups, holding up…

Chris Davis
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Called up

Sports |  Sudden on-field success hasn’t been the most important turnaround in Chris Davis’ life

Stacking library shelves
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Stacking library shelves

Islam |  How Washington is pushing Islamic propaganda into local communities. Where’s the ACLU when we need it?

Darwin’s head-scratcher

Darwin’s head-scratcher

Science | How intelligent design offers the best explanation for the sudden appearance of many animals upon the earth—an event Darwin could not reconcile

A wedding cake display at Masterpiece Cakeshop in Denver.

Another bakery sued for not making same-sex wedding cakes

Religious Liberty |  “This Homophobic Bakery will Cater Dog Weddings but Not Gay Civil Unions.” That’s the cute headline on The Atlantic Wire, the influential website of one…

Test your level of homophobia

Homosexuality |  “Homophobia” is an interesting term. It is an entire lecture in a word. “Homophobia” decides the issue before you can open your mouth to offer your…

David Silverman

To the Unknown God

Religion |  Last year, American Atheists filed suit in Bradford County, Fla., to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from the courthouse grounds on a separation of…

Confused about leadership

Confused about leadership

Faith & Inspiration |  Young men aged 18-22 lined up to get their first military haircut, sweating from the Annapolis heat and humidity. They wore starched, white, pajama-looking…

President Barack Obama

Privacy vs. security

National Security |  Lawmakers are divided on phone records sweep

The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the U.S. State Department in Washington.

Foreign affairs

Foreign Policy |  Ever since President Clinton “did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” whatever remains of standards seem to have fallen even lower…

Jason Collins throws the ceremonial first pitch

Proud but wrong

Sports |  Boston Pride, an LGBT organization that promotes Boston’s Gay Pride Week, hosted the first-ever “Pride Night” at Fenway Park Thursday night. The…

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant

Mississippi governor refuses to wear dunce cap over education flap

Education |  On Tuesday, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant responded to a reporter’s question about educational mediocrity by saying, “Both parents started working, and…

FOSTER THE PEOPLE: David Lambert, Sherri Saum, Jake T. Austin, and Teri Polo in the premiere episode.
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Mothers know best

Television |  The Fosters presents an idealized, fantasy view of homosexual parenting

When dads fail

When dads fail

Father's Day |  Several years after my parents’ divorce, a former friend of theirs called me and, in the course of our conversation, called my father a “failure.” I…

Ania Joseph

IRS agent warns pro-life group against acting on ‘blind, emotional feelings’

IRS Scandal |  Pro-Life Revolution waited nearly two-and-a-half years for tax-exempt approval, a process that can take as little as three months. During the wait, the…

Two young men with low-slung, baggy jeans walk in Trenton, N.J.

New Jersey town tells residents to stop ‘lookin’ like fools’

Culture |  The sight of someone walking down the street with extremely baggy pants inspired American Idol contestant Larry Platt to write the popular song saying,

Hyping the sequester: Head Start

Hyping the sequester: Head Start

Education |  “To get a sense of just how foolish and shortsighted the $85 billion across-the-board sequester cuts are, you don’t have to look any further than Head

The National Security Administration campus in Fort Meade, Md.

When does power go unused?

National Security |  All kinds of hazards can make us insecure. One possibility: Terrorists could blow you up. Another possibility: If a terrorist dials a wrong number and it’s…

Cal Thomas
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Fifty-year calling

Q&A |  From a front seat at the circus for half a century, Cal Thomas has seen a lot change in the media and in America

President Obama speaking in San Jose, Calif., Friday.

When government can’t be trusted

Government |  Without the slightest hint of irony, President Obama said last week, “If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress,

The Rev. Fred Luter Jr. points upward after being re-elected as the Southern Baptist Convention's president.

Signs and Wonders: SBC president calls for more black missionaries

Newsworthy |  Southern Baptists begin. The nation’s largest protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), is meeting this week in Houston. Among the…

Women walk past blighted row houses in Baltimore, Md.

Marriage keeps kids out of poverty

Poverty |  In 1965, the U.S. Department of Labor produced a report arguing that “the decline of the black nuclear family would significantly impede blacks’ progress…

President Obama meets in the Oval Office with his National Security team, including Avril Danica Haines (top right), in March.

Foxes in the henhouse

National Security |  “On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of men” (Psalm 12:8). From here on in, we steer a fine line between two verses:

What would you do to live?

Faith & Inspiration |  In a heartbreaking story, a Plymouth, Mass., teenager died in March after eating half a store-bought cookie that had a little peanut oil in it. He had been…

A group of Susan G. Komen volunteers and breast cancer survivors rally in Washington in support of funding for medical research in the face of sequester.

Susan G. Komen cutting 3-Day walks in half

Abortion |  WASHINGTON—Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced it is cutting 3-Day for the Cure walks in Washington, D.C., and six other major cities beginning in 2014.

Mary Eberstadt
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Family first

Books |  Author argues that strong families can prevent a broken church

Things snuck in

Homosexuality |  I recently signed on with a new home energy supplier through a clean-cut representative who came to the door armed with graphs and rationales for why his…

Seven steps to not offending homosex—I mean, gays at the DOJ

Seven steps to not offending homosex—I mean, gays at the DOJ

Homosexuality |  The U.S. Department of Justice may be under a cloud these days, but on the matter of workplace equality, they’re clear as day … sort of. DOJ…

Do all our desires need to be satisfied?

Faith & Inspiration |  My daughter worked at a bagel shop in Oakland, Calif., and now and then a customer would walk in with a dog. She would explain to the human on the other end…

Eric Glatt, a Georgetown Law student, poses for a photograph on campus.

Unpaid interns win case against movie studio

Courts |  For students looking to break into difficult fields, internships have traditionally been the go-to option, even if they are unpaid. But the future of unpaid…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel

German civil unions gain marriage tax benefit

Marriage |  Germany’s top court handed down a ruling today giving same-sex civil unions the same tax exemptions as heterosexual marriages. The Federal Constitutional…

God’s laws are never entrapments

Faith & Inspiration |  If you are lacking a pastime, you could sit at my parents’ living room window and watch all day as a police car stops and tickets unsuspecting motorists…

A member of the clergy is among dozens of demonstrators arrested in Raleigh, N.C., during an act of civil disobedience opposing the Republican legislature's agenda.

North Carolina Christians divided over policies to help the poor

Poverty |  For the past two months, hundreds of protesters have entered North Carolina’s capitol in Raleigh, refused to disperse, and left in handcuffs. Many of them…

Is it possible to never argue with your spouse?

Faith & Inspiration |  I have a correspondent in Ohio who was married for almost six decades to his childhood sweetheart before death did them part. In a letter he inquired about a…

How Satan uses the law

Faith & Inspiration |  Since he had the afternoon off from his job, I asked my son to go to my mother’s and help with her bills. He bristled at the command and said he didn’t…

Tim Tebow works out with the New England Patriots Tuesday.

Boston Tebow Party?

Sports |  I’ll admit my bias. I want Tim Tebow—Heisman Trophy winner and former quarterback for the Denver Broncos and the New York Jets—to have a successful…

Leaning away from our sinful tendencies

Faith & Inspiration |  My kids say I am the least lazy person they know. But the truth is that I tend to laziness and it scares me, so I bend hard in the opposite direction. This…

Donald Berwick

The coming Obamacare disaster

Healthcare |  For years I have been writing about the failures of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) as a warning for what the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare)

Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality

Government makes gender change effortless, on paper

Culture |  The Social Security Administration announced Friday that it would no longer require proof of surgery to alter the gender identification of people in its…

Learning the cost of community

Learning the cost of community

Essay |  For me, moving back home means moving back into acommunity of all generations.  In college I took political theory classes that routinely covered the…

Chick-fil-A's Spicy Chicken Sandwich

Signs and Wonders: Punished for upholding the law?

Newsworthy |  Stand down. Some of us do not wonder that the number of suicides and sexual assaults in the military now approaches civilian levels. An organization that was…

Ryan Braun

Cheating’s shrapnel flies fast and far

Sports |  If you follow professional baseball you’ve likely heard the name Biogenesis by now. It is the now defunct clinic in Miami that has been linked to at least…

This undated photo provided by Oslo theater Det Norske Teatret shows actors rehearsing a scene from <i>Bibelen</i>, a six-hour play based on a nontraditional interpretation of the Bible.

The Bible becomes a bestseller in Norway

Religion |  In Norway, people are buying more Bibles than any other book. The Bible topped best seller lists in 2012 and is still popular in 2013, outselling works like

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