Imagine if I said, "Don't like slavery? Then don't own a slave." Or, "Don't like spousal abuse? Then don't beat your wife!" If I said such things, you would immediately realize I don't grasp why slavery and spousal abuse are wrong. They are not wrong because I personally dislike them. They are wrong because slaves and spouses are intrinsically valuable human beings who have a natural right not to be treated as property

“It’s very stressful in China — sometimes I was working 128 hours a week for my auditing company,” Ms. Chen said in her Beijing apartment a few hours before leaving. “And it will be easier raising my children as Christians abroad. It is more free in Australia.”

Seeing Through the Fog: Hope When Your World Falls Apart (David C. Cook) offers the lessons Ed Dobson has learned while dealing with a disease that kills slowly and painfully. In one of the Ed’s Story videos, he says, “Every person knows that they are going to die. The difference is I feel it with every... Continue Reading

The Alberta Court of Appeals upheld the opinion of the Court of Queen’s Bench, stating that Boissoin has a right to express his beliefs on matters such as homosexuality as long as they are focused on a behavior and not a specific person.     In ending a decade-long battle, a high court in Canada... Continue Reading

“If I’d known about these therapies as a teen I could have avoided a lot of depression, self-hatred and suicidal thoughts,”…. He was tormented as a Christian teenager by his homosexual attractions, but now, after men’s retreats and an online course of reparative therapy, he says he feels glimmers of attraction for women and is... Continue Reading

Our work is not merely a collection of tasks that bring in wages. Work is a means by which we can use our talents and abilities to develop godly character, communicate the gospel, and worship the Lord.     I’m a fan of The Pacifier, the 2005 action comedy starring Vin Diesel as Shane Wolfe,... Continue Reading

The eyes of all are still upon America, but it is a markedly different place. As the secularization of that city upon a hill continues, it is not hard to imagine a presidential race one day that involves candidates who practice no religion at all.     A hypothetical Martian with a deep interest in... Continue Reading

Rather than putting so much emphasis on homosexuality and heterosexuality, Christians should focus on “holy sexuality,”… Holy sexuality includes faithfulness to one’s spouse in marriage and in singleness, abstinence. This idea is not to act as a justification for homosexuals, but rather as a focus for Christians to humble themselves and pursue faithfulness to God.... Continue Reading

Many college students Hill sees say they feel very alone after reading Facebook posts, thinking everyone else is having a much better life than they are-an effect that many counselors refer to as “Facebook depression.”     Like most other college students, Michael Anderson uses Facebook to keep up with family and friends. But reading... Continue Reading

It turns out only about 24 percent of Americans actually report attending religious services in the past week…What this suggests is that in actual religious practice, Americans might not be that different from people in Western Europe when it comes to what they do, but they might be very different for people in Western Europe... Continue Reading