Few words were spoken more during the 9/11 crisis than "hero," applied to firefighters, police, and anyone who showed up to give blood. It was as if thinking heroically would make us so, even if a...

"Hypocrisy in one Age," warned Joseph Addison, "is generally succeeded by Atheism in another." Consider this in light of charges that America is becoming, according to a Trinity College survey, le...

It's an illusion fervently held by too many conservatives. If, they say, we could just get the decision-making processes of America relocated from the elitist enclaves to the masses "out there," c...

When missionary Hudson Taylor landed in Shanghai after five months at sea, he made a pact with his first recruits from England: Everyone was to dress as the Chinese did. For men in those days, 186...

Helping questions I oversee a benevolence fund at our church and wrestle with many of these issues regularly ("Giving that worked," March 14). Who should be helped and in what capacity? Doe...

Occasionally I covet the sinking-but-still-seven-digit readership of Time or Newsweek, and then I remind myself to be grateful for WORLD's 120,000 subscribers. Besides, it's unlikely that editors ...

"For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica" (2 Timothy 4:10). Why the long face, Wormwood? The Wachowski brothers did us no favor with that little...