George Gallup Jr.’s family name was to opinion polls what iPod is to mp3 players. Gallup died this week at age 81, and merited obituaries in both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. George Jr., as he was known professionally, was noted not only for his careful work in polling, but also... Continue Reading

Wingfield, born and raised in Shuler’s district, left North Carolina to attend Brown University. In 2006, his senior year, Wingfield was president of Brown’s Reformed University Fellowship (RUF)…when Brown suspended the organization… Wingfield and RUF eventually took Brown’s action to the press, and after a six-month dispute, the university restored the student ministry’s membership. Millennials,... Continue Reading

“The Dominican Republic is more than a baseball farm,” Ang said. “It’s more than a vacation spot with pretty beaches. It’s a country with a heartbeat, with a new generation who are working to fight hard against the old perceptions.” On Thursday, Nov. 10, 13 Biola University students released their book, “The Dominican Dream: A... Continue Reading

Brian Parr, MTW missionary serving in Scotland with David, posted the following update on David’s condition. It is a note from David’s son, Andrew An update on Dad: Things have been going a lot better since last week. I have to admit I think last Friday all of us thought that he was going to... Continue Reading

Whoever emerges as the next leader of the worldwide evangelical movement will have to possess the many gifts so richly displayed by Stott: biblical fidelity, personal integrity, intellectual strength, humility, unpretentiousness, and the ability to warmly communicate the message of “basic Christianity” to people of all classes and races. This past Friday, a memorial service... Continue Reading

“Michael Pearl has estimated that one-sixth of the nation’s probable three million homeschooling families use their training methods,” Heimlich writes. “Critics from around the world urge people to ignore what the Pearls preach, but many find the couple’s promises that their methods will bring about complacent children difficult to refuse.” The author of a book... Continue Reading

He later told his church that he often thought he could battle cancer by his own will and his own strength. “Through God’s grace, I met the Watters family. God decided He wanted to move me into a Christian family. So I became a Watters.” Those events, he said, showed him that God is sovereign... Continue Reading

“He (John Stott) truly was, in some ways, the first person who spoke the word of God to me through his literature and I also heard him in person,” proclaimed Tim Keller, senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and whom Newsweek magazine described as a “C.S. Lewis for the twenty-first century.”... Continue Reading

Six years later, NYC SALT is thriving as a nonprofit organization aiming to empower New York City teenagers through photography, professional skills, and mentoring. The name comes from Matthew 5, where Jesus refers to salt as necessary for flavor and preservation. Alicia Hansen is wearing blue jeans, a white button-down blouse, and navy blue Converse... Continue Reading

Many of the 150 accused in the region during the 1690s came from nearby Andover, not Salem Village. “They should really be known as the Andover Witch Trials,” Baker said. For centuries, scholars have wondered how a farming village in 1692 could have become so hysterically anxious that magistrates would order 20 executions for crimes... Continue Reading