The President has demanded, and failed to get, an impossible combination of new government programs and robust economic growth. It's time for some humility and a new approach.
Faced with the callous determination of the Third Reich to murder innocent Jews, Christian theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer discarded his commitment to pacifism and joined in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Are there moral lessons here for our time?
Science wants to de-mystify mystery. It is committed to finding material explanations for those paradoxical outliers, like musical giftedness, that make us want to give credit to God. It wants to say that Mozart wasn't any different from the rest of us. Really?
Biblical scholar and NT professor Ben Witherington takes on the arguments against Jesus presented in Bart Ehrman's popular new book, "Jesus, Interrupted."
In a time of economic crisis, with Congress spending money on every dubious scheme it can think of, the best thing we can do is to pray for our leaders and our neighbors.
Is there a God who embraces us when we cry out in the darkness, or is there just the empty echo of our own voices? Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has found a surprising answer to that question.
The Judeo-Christian concept of human worth is that we are God's priceless, crowning act of creation. The US Environmental Protection Agency takes a more utilitarian view, valuing human beings at $7.22 million each. So, which is it? Are we priceless, or are we mere commodities, stamped with a price tag like everything else?
We Americans are a bit uptight about our emotions. Take joy, for example. We compress it and dehydrate it into a dry little morsel that couldn't possibly offend the neighbors, or make us look silly. Except at football games. But joy, God's joy, inevitably breaks our chains.
Ben Witherington talks about the meaning of the prophecy from Isaiah 40:5, "Then the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all people shall see it together."
God has not made us all equal, but he has given every one of us a unique set of abilities and opportunities. We get to choose whether to use those things boldly, or timidly.
Childless couples are turning to in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive children. The Christian church highly values life, family, and children, but has ethical concerns about IVF. Is the church merely stuck in the past, or is there reason to be worried?
This scientific age sees all deviancy as a puzzle to be solved through the application of rationalism. Sometimes there's a better spiritual explanation — Evil.
I suspect Michael Fox has thought a lot about God since he first received his diagnosis. Perhaps he has even wondered, as many have in his place, how a good and loving Father could allow his children to suffer so terribly.
Flamenco is joyous music, but bittersweet — joy in the midst of a life filled with sorrow and uncertainty. Music connected to the passionate heart of God.
Pope Benedict is being criticized for doing exactly what religious leaders are supposed to do: pointing out how Christianity is different from religions X, Y and Z.
"Look at what happened in South East Asia with the Tsunami. 150,000 lives lost... In Africa, 150,000 lives are lost every month. A tsunami every month." Bono in his address to the National Prayer Breakfast
In human history, there have been many who have made extraordinary claims about themselves, but none that are quite as extravagant as the claims of Jesus Christ.
There is no such thing as instant discipleship. Mark Daniels reflects on 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 and the importance of a daily habit of reading the Bible and prayer.
That was Good Friday. A day of blood, tears, bewilderment, and the loss of all hope. A dark day with just a glimmer of light: a Son who never lost faith in the love of his Father, even while suffering and dying for crimes he did not commit.
While some Christians lament the marketing of Xmas and the removal of Christian songs and symbols from public places, I happen to believe it's a good thing that Xmas and Christmas are finally separate from each other in the public square.
The judgment of God on Cain, the murderer, was banishment. The judgment on us would be just as harsh were it not for the Mediator who stands between God and us, Jesus Christ.
Christianity would not exist were it not for translation. In fact, it is a faith built on the life of the living translation, Jesus Christ, God with us.
