Gareth Higgins The beginning of wisdom proposed in the best documentaries is simply this: telling the truth, to ourselves and others, as ...

Thrall , which deals with images of interracial relationships from the 17th century to the present, ...

Valerie Weaver-Zercher Who knew the Amish would become such a center of pop-cultural attention? ONE SUNDAY EV ...

Dawn Araujo Cincinnati's faith leaders cross denominational lines to standup to a corporate bully. REV. ...

be the way he is glorified (chapter 17)? In a narrative where down is up, and ordinary things like ...

Rose Marie Berger To have the "poor one" at the center of the Catholic faith is right and just. I W ...

Curt Devine 8 ways to stand against human trafficking. PRAY for freedom for the 27 million people enslave ...

Curt Devine "I never imagined humanity could be stripped from a person like that." KRISTIN HART pla ...

Curt Devine When Mexican emigration and U.S. slavery intertwine. MARTA AND LUISA had always fantasized about ...

Lynne Hybels How small my world gets when I'm not paying attention. OUR PLANE SITS at the gate in Brusse ...

Edith Black The Mark of True Faith COMING TO know Christ can be likened to culture shock, when all the old eg ...

Candice Quinn Local governments push for Pentagon spending cuts. YEAR AFTER YEAR, more than 50 percent of the ...

Jim Wallis Thanks be to God for the life of Gordon Cosby. GORDON COSBY was perhaps the most Christian human b ...

Yesterday Kay Stewart shared this poem at the cemetery as we laid to rest the ashes of her first-born daughter Katherine (“Katie”). Yesterday Kay Stewart shared this at the c ...

Pope Francis on Friday met with Pope Tawadros II, head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, an encounter that brought the number of popes within the Vatican walls to three this week. ...

in 1986, when a car hit him on the way to school. Kourt died about 10 years later, at age 17, killing ...

when she lost her son to gun violence, and the Mother’s Day walk marks its 17 th  year this Sunday. ...

NPR interview with a former Air Force drone pilot. NPR ran a story today with an interview of a former Air Force drone pilot. He describes some of his experiences, including a d ...

A Pakistani court has ruled that U.S. drone strikes in that country are illegal. A Pakistani court has ruled that U.S. drone strikes in that country are illegal. The case was filed on behalf of the families of victims killed in a March 17, 2011 ...

In an effort to praise and empower marriage, healthy parenting, families, and the sanctity of life, Christian subculture often mistakenly and unintentionally alienates those around us — especially women, ...

Distilled to its core, The Great Gatsby is a story of poorness from the lens of richness, a rags-to-riches story where we only get to see the riches. The Great Gatsby  doesn’ ...

that says, “Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead” (James 2:17), and again, “For ...

Through the vivid accounts of nine girls from the developing world — Cambodia, Nepal, Peru, Afghanistan, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Haiti, and India — and their valiant struggles for the right to be educat ...

An undisclosed community on Wednesday accepted the body of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, which is now “entombed,” according to police in Worcester, Mass. An undisclose ...

“IT’S RAINING, IT’S POURING” was written the day we learned that Katie’s incurable Leiomyosarcoma had taken a turn for the worse. In memory of Katherine (“Katie”) Elizabeth Slaikeu Nolan. ...

American anti-abortion leaders will be in Rome on Sunday to participate in Italy’s third March for Life and lend their expertise to the nation’s small anti-abortion movement as it tries to learn from its Ameri ...

Who is missing from the slew of headlines this week on kidnappings, gender-based violence, and victims' paths to healing? The perpetrators themselves — which is why this TEDx video is a must-see. ...

Stornoway delivered with hopeful, honest songs about life, love, and everything in between. Delightful is probably the best word to describe their music and the experience of seeing them live. It’s like taking ...

Two studies of government data show US Gun crime has decreased from its peak in the middle of 1990s Two studies of government data show US gun crime has decreased from its peak in ...

7:24-27). The Apostle Paul warned us of those who would profit from the ‘faith’ (2 Corinthians 2:17 ...

His English was terribly broken, and punctuated by sudden fits of giggles. But for nearly an hour, the Dalai Lama entranced an arena full of admirers, who said his message came across just fine. ...

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City and held in captivity for nine months in 2002 at age 14, spoke out about her experience at a human trafficking panel at Johns Hopkins Universi ...

Yes, it’s a tough time to be a denominational partisan, to believe one’s own tradition is absolutely right and all others wrong. But that was never God’s desire. God has wanted oneness, not separation; and hum ...

for himself by dismantling his old one. He sold his private jet and his 17,000-square-foot estate and moved ...

May 6, 2013 Sojo in the News Electa Draper ...

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China is rapidly developing a fleet of drones. China is rapidly developing a fleet of drones, some of which are already patrolling its borders. The number of drones and their ca ...

Drone strikes in Yemen are leading to public anger. As the number of drone strikes against targets in Yemen has grown, the anger of the local people is also growing. The AP repo ...

Review of Akbar Ahmed's "The Thistle and the Drone." Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, reviews a new book in Al Jazeera  ...

Rather than telling people caught in desperate sin how far their sin has removed them from God, why not invite them to come to worship? Think of how much difference there is between saying “Stop being such a s ...

In this age when the “spiritual but not religious” seem to have more relevance than churchgoers, it’s easy to wonder why church attendance matters at all. But I believe that we need common spaces, more ground ...

May 6, 2013 Sojo in the News Luke Simmons ...

Matthew Warren’s suicide last month has prompted a number of evangelical leaders to talk about how churches can better help those dealing with mental illness in their congregations. ...

May 3, 2013 Sojo in the News Robin Young ...

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May 3, 2013 Sojo in the News Megan Quinn ...

A respectful, bright young high school student asked me yesterday if Baptism and the Eucharist were not merely symbols. "When Paul talks about Christ being 'in us' or about 'putting on� ...

WASHINGTON — Rhode Island on May 2 became the 10th state to approve same-sex marriage, and the Delaware Legislature holds a key vote on May 9 on the same issue. But Brian Brown, president of the National Orga ...

Several years ago, Amee Paparella was an eager student at a state university in Ohio. A conservative Christian, she quickly signed up to join the campus ministry. What she found in the group surprised her. “It ...