Men…pray this…If this is the man I am to become, may I be given the grace to lift my robe and run, like the prodigal father, with vulnerability and without fear, into the brokenness of the world – even as the onlookers jeer.

There may be good reasons to reform or replace the Sinner's Prayer in evangelical "liturgical life." But we have to do better than theological snobbery or spiritual self-righteousness

The demolition took place on the night of September 6, on alleged court order. But the community had not been given prior notice. Fears that similar cases may affect other denominations.

Embryo adoption is not a chief issue for many Christians, said Fluhrer, but that may be changing. He has blogged about embryo adoption on Reformation 21, a theology website he edits, and he encourages his church members to consider the option

Why should Christians bother reading literature at all? Because reading literature humanizes us -- in the best sense of the word. Literature helps us realize the image of God in us in ways that we cannot afford to miss. (By "literature," I am simply thinking of published works of imaginative writing in various genres, such as poetry, fiction and drama.)

An athlete can lead an unsavory life or even be a criminal and win a pass from the media (just Google “NFL police blotter”). But outspoken Christian athletes face a media blitz against their faith.

A movie like this one is easy to lampoon. It’s filled with some cliches of the righteous outsider, the marginalized hero, the crusading moralists. But perhaps underneath all of that is a muffled cry for some conversation, from one guilty conscience to another, seeking for some way to break an old, old curse.

Homeschool co-ops provide an attractive option for homeschooling parents: By partnering to create classes and activities that supplement their children's at-home curriculum, they combine the flexibility and privacy of traditional home education with the structure and socialization found in typical school settings

Augustine criticizes the theater and public spectacles out of a personal confessional frame of mind since he participated in such debaucheries as a young man in Carthage. In his Confessions he asks why is it that in the theater a man desires to behold sorrows and tragedy which, if he actually experiences them, would make his miserable? Do we love the grief of others in order to be able to show mercy to them?

To say, OK, God, I don't get this and this hurts like a burning fire and I hate it, but I'll trust you on this one. She called it her "shortcut through grief." Jan Karon, in her Mitford books, speaks of this very thing, calling it "The prayer that never fails: Not my will, but thine"