An easy ‘A’
Does approval from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability offer Christians useful information about an organization’s financial discipline?
An easy ‘A’
Does approval from the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability offer Christians useful information about an organization’s financial discipline?
Timeline: The Hong Kong protests
Police violence, protester vandalism, and a new anthem for a free Hong Kong in ongoing pro-democracy demonstrations
Rough weather
Two weeks of meteorological and political storms, with more brewing
Young, black, and conservative
A vocal group of young African Americans wants to change the face of conservatism
Voices
The Editors
Mailbag
Pulling back the curtain ...
Joel Belz
Charity choices
Nobody’s ever confused me with “Dear Abby.” In the 33 years I’ve edited this column, nobody’s ever written me asking for advice about courtship, marriage issues, or an intrusive mother-in-law. ...
Marvin Olasky
Vanishing dance
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year’s Day, begins this year the evening of Sept. 29. Some synagogues and temples will be crowded the way churches are on Easter, but most won’t have many worshippers on...
Janie B. Cheaney
Policy in its place
The new documentary One Child Nation explores the effects of China’s infamous “one-child policy” from 1980 to 2015. In the film, co-director Nanfu Wang returns to her home village to reflect...
Andrée Seu Peterson
On making lists
I’m a great believer in making lists. This is partly because I have a poor memory, and also because I think it is a good practice of a well-ordered life. My husband doesn’t make lists. Just saying. ...
The Editors
Mailbag
Scheming for God ...
Notebook
Lifestyle
Two mended hearts
In 1986, Hal Higley found a letter addressed to his wife in the mail. When he asked Kathi, she said it was from a friend in Louisiana, but their strained marriage had left him suspicious. Later, as...
Health
Scars to heal
In August, Nancy Writebol, a missionary with SIM International, celebrated exactly five years of being healed of Ebola. She had contracted the virus during the 2014 outbreak while helping spray health...
Technology
The fake news police
The debate about bias at Facebook and other media intensified last month as investigators headed by former GOP Sen. Jon Kyl presented an “interim report.” Kyl’s Covington & Burling law firm...
Lifestyle
Gained in translation
Four years after they married in 1954, Charlotte and Dick Griffiths moved to the jungle of Indonesia to translate the Bible into the Hatam language. Living among the isolated tribe intensified normal...
Lifestyle
Love in the oven
Last year the financial website 24/7 Wall St. declared the Waterloo–Cedar Falls, Iowa, area America’s worst place for African Americans to live. White people there have higher employment and earn...
Journals
Snapshots of China
Democratic appeal
Hong Kong, long the international financial hub of Asia, now possesses a certain Jekyll-and-Hyde quality. During the week, the city is subdued: Well-dressed men and women head off to their offices in...
Metro Minute
Anti-vax exodus
A New York moment: ...
Metro Minute
A trip to Grand Bassa County
A Liberia moment: ...
Sophia's World
Mary gets a home
Last week, I wrote about two individuals in their 60s, Mary and Michael, on their hunt for housing. With their age and health problems, it’s not easy for them to find housing with their...
Sophia's World
Apartment hunters
A few weeks ago, I sat at the Santa Monica Public Library with two homeless individuals in their 60s as they searched online for housing. There was Mary, 64, whom I wrote about in January in a story...
Snapshots of China
Hong Kong resolve
On Sunday in Hong Kong, an estimated 1.7 million people turned out under a pouring rain in a massive protest for democratic freedoms. It was the first peaceful weekend in 11 weeks of rallies and...
Culture
Documentary
Undercover catcher
The Golden Age of Baseball conjures up black-and-white images of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Another player of the 1920s and 1930s is not most recognizable but is arguably most enigmatic. ...
Documentary
When China came to Ohio
When General Motors Co. in 2008 shuttered a factory near Dayton, Ohio, thousands of workers lost high-paying union jobs. Eight years later, a Chinese glass manufacturer reopened part of the plant,...
Movies & TV
Battles at the bench
It seems there are nearly as many TV shows about lawyers as there are lawyers. Few represent the craft honestly. (I’m talking about the TV shows.) The pilot of the new CBS legal drama All Rise doesn’t...
Movies & TV
On the laugh track
These days, streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, as well as premium cable channels like HBO, are dominating watercooler conversations and sweeping up awards shows. The reign of broadcast...
Q&A
Dangerous descent
John West is vice president of Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank best known for its research and advocacy for intelligent design. West is also the author of several books, including...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Oil for ships ...
Quotables
Quotables
‘I think the Holy Ghost is just fed up with it.’ ...
Human Race
Human Race
Announced ...
News
By the numbers
77 The age of Jeanne Socrates, who on Sept. 7 became the oldest person to sail around the world alone, nonstop, and unassisted. $4 billion The price for which Exxon Mobil Corp. will sell its ...
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Playing through ...
News
By the numbers
$572 million ...