2019 Books of the Year
Great books tell stories. Here’s our pick of vivid and insightful new releases for better understanding America, world events, history, science, and theology
Capital promises
After Promise Keepers' huge rally in Washington, D.C., participants vow they'll strive to close the gap between words and actions.
Whatever happened to sola fide?
Last October I sat in the Memphis Liberty Bowl a Promise Keepers skeptic. Having come to examine the phenomenon firsthand, I thumbed thr...
Quite contrary
Move to upgrade Mary's status slowed, but debate rages
McMillan and husband
The woman who came between Paula Jones and her lawyers acts as big sister and defender in what is likely to be the most significant sexual-harassment trial in the nation's history
Billboard jungle
On the theory that what's good for the troops is good for the commander, the Free Congress Foundation wants you to call if you have been...
Culture
Culture
Culture Notes
The other Disney of kids' programs Those boycotting Disney might do well to pay attention to who else is raising America's TV-addled children. Haim Saban, an Israeli entrepreneur, is respon...
Movies & TV
Film: Soul food on ice
Whether among poor blacks in the inner city or affluent whites in the suburbs, the institution of the family has been coming apart. Two new films are not worth watching by Christians, but they are...
Dispatches
The Buzz (Publick Occurrences)
This Week
The world in brief Ending a formal three-year period of mourning, the reclusive son of North Korea's national founder Kim Il Sung took formal control of the nation Oct. 8, assuming the post...
Quotables
Quotables
Before he went to Promise Keepers, I had filed for divorce-it was that bad. But something dramatic occurred. I sent a frog and got back a prince. ALETHEA BICKELL of Wichita, Kan. It ...