The irony of American Christianity is that so many people claim to be Christians while so few really show a…
No greater love exists, Jesus said, than to lay down your life for a friend. A man I know of…
A Romanian pastor once told me, “You Christians in the West are not as fortunate as we are.” I was…
Medical science has just offered a way out for parents and educators who can’t be bothered about training kids in…
Christmas is coming, and for towns and municipalities across the nation ’tis the season to be worried—worried about lawsuits, that…
At Thanksgiving time, we were haunted by news photos of starving children in the heart of Somalia. Now as Christmas…
When Dr. Jack Kevorkian helped four women end their lives, the Chicago Tribune spoke out in favor of assisted suicide.…
In the presidential campaign Barbara Bush was interviewed on television one night by reporter Judy Woodruff. Judy phrased all her…
One of Jesus’ best-known parables is the Prodigal Son: the story of a young man who leaves his father’s home…
American journalists have become remarkably clumsy in handling news stories with a religious slant. And no wonder. As the profession…