A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
As police turn to facial recognition technology to identify suspects and solve cases, critics worry about privacy and false accusations
In Los Angeles, “defunding the police” led to disbanding a unit specially designed to help with homelessness
Donald Trump made gains among some Hispanic voters in 2020. Will the GOP continue the trend?
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Introducing the 2013 Hope Award for Effective Compassion regional winners
West Regional runner-up: A border doesn’t stop Crossroads Nogales Rescue Mission from being good neighbors to those in need
West Regional winner: My Safe Harbor helps single mothers break the dysfunctional cycle of broken homes
Threats to religious liberty in Canada show what may be in store for the United States
Biola University becomes ground zero in the pro-life debate over graphic abortion pictures
An aging but popular exile in the United States, Fethullah Gulen is considered by many behind moves to Islamicize his native land
‘A battle of wills and ideas’ June 15 Every year I spend two to four months teaching theology in Nigeria. The battle does involve “wills and ideas,” but far beyond what Obama is speak...
“So where are the Christians?” I asked that in a cover story on graphic novels (book-length comics) five years ago. The June 28, 2008, article reported on the work of “the most interesting Christi...
Last month Exodus International became the opposite of what it had been. It went from helping men and women to be free of sexual strongholds to helping them feel they are OK with Christ in their s...
A plump rabbit once encountered a hungry coyote in the forest. Careless in vigilance, the rabbit had allowed himself to be boxed between a boulder and a log with no way of escape. “Wait!” said the...
Lukman Faily is a rare man in Middle East politics these days—an optimist. Calling this month for a “new era” in U.S.-Iraq relations, the new Iraqi ambassador to the United States says “tho...
So what exactly do you think happened that night two years ago in Sanford, Fla.? Now that the trial is over, and all apart from the actual verdict, who do you think told the truth? George Zimmerma...
Sports
The last time the Pittsburgh Pirates had a winning season President Bush was in office—George H.W. Bush. Gas cost $1.13 per gallon, and Disney’s Aladdin was the top-grossing film at the box office...
Money
Elections do matter. If you don’t believe that, just ask the good folks of Indiana and Kansas. Since the election of tax-cutting Republicans (Mike Pence and Sam Brownback, both of whom likely have...
Technology
In suburban America, many of us take instant internet access for granted. Two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have a connection, often because of a lack of infrastructure needed to provid...
Science
On a sweltering summer day in Washington, President Obama stepped up to a sunlit lectern at Georgetown University, removed his suit jacket, rolled up his sleeves, mopped his forehead with a white ...
Religion
Evidence continues to mount that Christianity in Britain—and even belief in God’s existence—is on its way toward minority status. In a recent YouGov poll of British young adults, only 25 percent u...
Lifestyle
To take a full, hard look at mankind’s broken relationship with nature, just YouTube the famous car race scene in the 1978 film Grease. John Travolta’s character smirks and flicks his...
Houses of God
The Bois Blanc Island Coast Guard chapel stands on an island in Lake Huron between the Lower and Upper Peninsulas of Michigan. The building is an old boathouse for the Coast Guard that islanders p...
Music
Political correctness has its downsides, but one upside is that historically oppressed nonwhites seem to have carte blanche to sing with impunity about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and thus pr...
Books
Lamin Sanneh’s Summoned from the Margin: Homecoming of an African (Eerdmans, 2012) is a wonderfully evocative memoir of moving from childhood Islam in Gambia to a faith in Christ that many churche...
Movies & TV
There’s no question that CBS’s summer gambit, Under the Dome, is so far a rousing success. Its premiere episode drew 13.5 million viewers—more than any summer drama debut since 1992, a time before...
Notable CDs
John Abercrombie has been a jazz guitarist’s jazz guitarist for over 40 years, and this tribute to the music of his formative years (covers of songs composed and/or made famous by Ornette Coleman,...
Notable Books
Sherri Rinker follows up her 2011 surprise bestseller, Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, with another boy-pleasing bedtime book. What boy doesn’t love trains? The pages show a furry and sca...
Movies & TV
Cautions: Quantity of sexual (S), violent (V), and foul-language (L) content on a 0-10 scale, with 10 high, from kids-in-mind.com S ...
Movies & TV
If you enjoy mash-ups, you might like Guillermo del Toro’s latest monster flick, Pacific Rim, a mix of Godzilla, Transformers, and Total Recall. The movie, like all self-respecting apocalyptic fil...
Movies & TV
What do you get when you combine madcap antics, banana-colored clones, and a plot that affirms traditional family values? A lot of money. And that’s exactly what Universal Pictures is...
Q&A
Dave Swavely is the pastor of a Pennsylvania church, the father of seven, and the author or co-author of several nonfiction books and one new novel, Silhouette. Pastor and writer. Do ...
Documentary
Her voice trembling, eyes watering, Merry Clayton admits, “I felt that if I just gave my heart to what I was doing, I would automatically be a star.” From Ray Charles to Sheryl Crow ...
Quick Takes
Lip stuck A woman calling emergency services was understandably tight-lipped when she dialed New Zealand’s equivalent of 911. The 64-year-old woman from Dunedin, whom police did not identif...
Quotables
‘This was the law. How can they change the law?’ U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, on the legality of the Obama administration’s decision to delay the employer healthcare mandate until 201...
News
Two weeks before millions of Egyptian demonstrators demanded the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, a much smaller group of Christians met in Cairo to discuss whether churches should be directly i...
News
Markey wins Massachusetts voters learned U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., defeated Republican Gabriel Gomez in the special election for the U.S. Senate, meaning Democrats will hold the sea...
News
When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Citizens United decision in 2010, providing First Amendment protections for corporations’ political speech, religious business owners didn’t know how us...
Human Race
Resigned The chancellor at Yeshiva University’s prestigious seminary resigned on July 1 and apologized for poorly handling sex abuse accusations at the institution from the 1980s. Rabbi Nor...
Looking Ahead
July 25 Pope Francis will travel to his home continent of South America for World Youth Day. Hosted this year in Rio de Janeiro, the 2013 conference for Catholic youths is the first to be h...