“Thankfully, more states are recognizing that the only way to truly protect marriage is to amend their constitutions. Marriage is still the only institution we have with the primary purpose of giving a mother and a father to every child, and every adult should consider this in light of the push to redefine it.” Five... Continue Reading

Highly effective families still do this. They have rituals not for ritual’s sake, but for the sake of telling THE story. For Christian families, Advent can become a significant teaching time. Lent and Holy Week can also become spiritual tools to remind our families of who we are and what God has done for us... Continue Reading

Ussher is likely most remembered for his scholarly analysis of the genealogies of the Book of Genesis which led him to date the origin of the earth at 4004 B.C. James Ussher, the Irish-born linguist, scholar, pastor-theologian and Anglican Archbishop, was born January 4, 1581. He was reared in Calvinism, and at 13 years of... Continue Reading

America is not color-blind and likely will never be. Race is ever-present, like a birth defect that you learn to live with but can never cure. Because Scripture speaks powerfully about equality and how to treat one another, I and a number of other black PCA ministers approached byFaith magazine and asked to begin a... Continue Reading

Despite worries about voter fraud, intimidation, or even the threat of Islamists like Somalia’s Al-Shabaab attacking voting stations, the people of South Sudan are determined to be free. After over 40 years of war waged against them by a regime attempting to destroy their African culture and Christian faith, South Sudanese began voting in a... Continue Reading

“For the briefest moment it looked as if the baby were being wrung like a dishcloth, twirled and squeezed,” Johnson writes. “And then the little body crumpled and began disappearing into the cannula before my eyes. The last thing I saw was the tiny, perfectly formed backbone sucked into the tube, and then everything was... Continue Reading

Applicants to its Nurse Residency Program in Women’s Health (including obstetrics, gynecology, labor and delivery, etc.) must provide an “acknowledgment” that, if admitted, they will be expected to assist in abortions. The Alliance Defense Fund has filed a formal complaint with the Department of Health & Human Services, asking it to enforce federal law and... Continue Reading

Facing a backlash from conservative groups, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ordered changes to a proposal to remove the terms “mother” and “father” from records of overseas births. “With Secretary Clinton’s input, we will be revising the form to retain the existing designation of mother and father, in addition to the designation of parent,”... Continue Reading

The United States cannot force these states to change, but Washington should make religious persecution part of its human-rights dialogue with other nations. Equally important, Americans should support and pray for the oppressed around the world. Americans take religious liberty for granted. Unfortunately, this most fundamental freedom is not protected in many countries around the... Continue Reading

The political back-and-forth has escalated after Saturday’s massacre at a Tucson grocery store, which killed a federal judge and left Democrat U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically injured. Ever since Jared Lee Loughner was identified as the suspect arrested for the massacre that killed six and wounded fourteen, speculations concerning the alleged gunman’s political affiliations has... Continue Reading