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Against the grain

Children’s Books of the Year | Our 2019 Children’s Books of the Year stand out from an increasingly troubling crowd

A horse and a lighthouse

Children’s Books of the Year | Picture books of the year: Top choices show imagination, nobility

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Restless souls

Children’s Books of the Year | Children’s novels of the year: When the ordinary becomes extraordinary

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Man in conflict

Children’s Books of the Year | Children’s nonfiction book of the year: One theologian’s struggle to understand God and defeat Hitler

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Books of the resistance

Children’s Books of the Year | A wave of activist-themed children’s books has surged in the Trump era

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2.22.19 Culture Friday, and The Visitor

Nick Eicher and John Stonestreet discuss the war between the L and T in LGBT and the effect it's having on women's sports; and Megan Basham recommends a movie that offers a counterpoint to Gran Torino. Plus: your listener feedback.

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Insightful interviews with popular musicians, Christian thought leaders, makers of movies and television, respected authors, and key political leaders.

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A conversation with Jonathan Rogers

This week, Warren Smith talks with novelist and Flannery O'Connor biographer Jonathan Rogers.

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Coast Guard member had hit list of Democrats

A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant is set to appear in federal court Thursday after his arrest last week in connection with a domestic terror plot.

America is more pro-life than it realizes

Abortion | Surveys show that most U.S. adults support some protections for the unborn

Illinois shooter took gun to firing

UPDATE: The man who shot and killed five of his coworkers Friday at the Henry Pratt Co.

Autonomy and accountability

Churches | A bombshell report on abuse by Southern Baptist leaders spurs reflection on church structure

Parkland seeks peace on shooting anniversary

In the year following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., families of the victims became active in politic

Death of a poet

Literature | A talented writer isn’t necessarily a writer to be heeded

New York jury convicts Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’

Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was convicted Tuesday in U.S. District Court of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation.

Louisiana abortion law still has a chance

Abortion | The Supreme Court halted the law for now but has good reasons to allow it in the long run

Pittsburgh shooting suspect pleads not guilty

The suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges Monday as his new lawyer indicated he might be open to a p

Apologies and revelations before Catholic sex abuse summit

Catholic religious orders from around the world issued public apologies on Tuesday for failing to address sexual abuse of children by their priests

SBC leader proposes reforms to address sexual abuse

The leader of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) on Monday announced proposed changes following an

Head elders to step down at Harvest

Members of the executive committee of elders at Harvest Bible Chapel in Chicago announced Saturday they will resign in the coming months as the chu

Vatican defrocks McCarrick over sexual abuse

The Vatican announced Saturday that Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S.

Inside the Iglesia family

Religion | With millions of members, the Iglesia ni Cristo might be the largest religious sect you’ve never heard of—and critics claim it governs by intimidation and violence

Harvest removes MacDonald as senior pastor

The elders of Harvest Bible Chapel fired James MacDonald as senior pastor of the Chicago megachurch after a radio show aired audio Tuesday of vulga

Pope acknowledges clergy sexual abuse of nuns

Pope Francis on Tuesday for the first time publicly acknowledged that clergy have sexually abused nuns.

Remember the rainbow

Faith & Inspiration | A remarkable symbol of God’s mercy in a sin-darkened world

Tax time interrogation

Faith & Inspiration | Jesus doesn’t offer cheap answers to Pharisees—or to us

U.S. to keep 200 troops in Syria

The White House on Thursday said 200 U.S.

Trump defers to Barr on Mueller report

WASHINGTON—Amid speculation that Attorney General William Barr may announce the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation

Supreme Court curbs seizure of criminals’ assets

The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously ruled that the ban found in the Eighth Amendment of the U.S.

Trump advisers pushed for nuclear exports to Saudi Arabia

WASHINGTON—Senior Trump administration officials pushed to build nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia despite objections from White House lawyers,

Trump administration asks California for its money back

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it plans to withdraw the $3.5 billion the federal government allocated for California’s high-speed rail

Talk trouble

Free Speech | A Florida case highlights the ongoing question of ‘professional speech’ for Christians

States join forces to fight Trump’s national emergency in court

A coalition of 16 states has officially filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Me

Green dreams and delusions

Environmentalism | California’s crazy environmental initiatives often provoke snickers from outsiders and exasperation from residents like me

Debate, lawsuits follow emergency declaration

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s use of a national emergency declaration to access billions of dollars for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border has

Maduro closes Venezuela-Brazil border

Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a televised address Thursday said he blocked the country’s border with Brazil to interrupt plans t

Silence campaigns

Free Speech | Recent incidents show how Communist officials work to squelch free speech even beyond Chinese borders

U.S. blocks ISIS bride from returning

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he ordered the State Department to bar an Alabama woman who joined Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria from retu

Bangladesh fire kills dozens in crowded district

At least 81 people died when an apartment building caught fire in an older, overcrowded part of Bangladesh’s capital, officials said Thursday.

An international emergency

News analysis | Unwanted anywhere, floods of migrants overfill shelters in Mexico

Nigeria’s election delay gets testy

International | Plus, the media’s romance with ISIS brides continues and other news from around the world

Civilians evacuate last ISIS stronghold in Syria

A convoy of trucks carrying hundreds of civilians left the last Islamic State (ISIS)–controlled enclave in Syria on Wednesday, as U.S.-backed force

Putin scolds U.S. in annual address

In his annual state-of-the-nation address Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin placed all the blame on the United States for deteriorating r

Egypt paves the way for a new dictator

International | Constitutional amendments solidify president’s autocratic rule