“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

The following interview appears in the November issues of Ligonier Ministries Tabletalk Magazine. It is a unique insight into the life and work of a college president. Ryken is a Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church in America and prior to taking his current position, served as Senior Minister at the historic Tenth Presbyterian Church... Continue Reading

“Just existing became what was important,” says 87-year-old Frank Kravetz of Pittsburgh, captive of the “hell-hole” that was Nuremberg Prison Camp. “Yet even as I struggled with the day-to-day sadness and despair, I never once had any regrets that I signed up to serve.” An extended tour of Nazi camps as a wounded POW scratching... Continue Reading

Please continue to pray for David Andrew Robertson, his wife Annabel Robertson and all the family. Their son Andrew Robertson has posted this update an hour ago. The way this young man has written is a testimony to God’s amazing Grace in these circumstances. From Andrew Robertson An update on Dad: There hasn’t been much... Continue Reading

Keller, who ministers mainly to single professionals in Manhattan, provides readers with general (hot) guidelines on married sex, such as this: “Each partner in a marriage is to be most concerned not with getting sexual pleasure but with giving it. …The greatest sexual pleasure should be the pleasure of seeing your spouse getting pleasure.” Last... Continue Reading

“I spent time ingesting the writings of some of the most renowned atheists of the day. I read Richard Dawkins’ book ‘The God Delusion,’ Christopher Hitchens’ book ‘God is Not Great’ and Sam Harris’ ‘The End of Faith.’ I now see these three atheists as the ‘unholy trinity,’ because they are what I call evangelical... Continue Reading