A Letter to the Editor of Wall Street Journal by Floyd Abrams. Abrams is an expert on constitutional law, and many arguments in the briefs he has written before the United States Supreme Court have been adopted as United States Constitutional interpretative. Regarding the Nov. 12 letter from Assistant Secretary of State P.J. Crowley (“U.S.... Continue Reading

Six delegates from the official Protestant China Christian Council and from the church-state liaison body the Three-Self Patriotic Movement have visited the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan. Given the long-standing dispute over the sovereignty of Taiwan, and the differences between the churches on this issue, the meeting – the first of its kind... Continue Reading

How many ways can you creatively tell the story of Jesus’ birth? Many authors have placed the story of Christmas into a “make believe” world of animals, or special visitors to give it new inspiration for children. But in The Plan, Sinclair Ferguson uses no gimmicks, yet tells the old, old story in a fresh... Continue Reading

If the Chinese church committed itself completely to mission it would be a great new force that could complete the Great Commission, a mission expert stated. There are an estimated 100 million Christians in China, including members of the underground church, and the number is rapidly growing. Some have estimated that 30,000 people in China... Continue Reading

Members of the scientific community are often seen as doubting Thomases, but the reality is more complex. Even Charles Darwin may have made room for God. Today, a century and a half after Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection,” the overwhelming majority of scientists in the United States... Continue Reading

Former megachurch pastor Ted Haggard informed his supporters that the prayer meetings he’s been holding at his house are not the gatherings of a new church. “The prayer meeting is not a church plant,” he wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday in one of two ‘sanity points’. “We had two prayer meetings on our property... Continue Reading

Chris Coghlan is, all at once, eager to share his beliefs but concerned about how they’ll be received. Religion can bring peace, and religion can start wars. Coghlan knows how off-putting some people find vocal faith today, as movements gather to escort God out of school, out of court, out of the Pledge of Allegiance... Continue Reading

Messages questioning religion are popping up across the city of Albuquerque just weeks before the biggest religious holidays in the world. The Freedom from Religion group sponsoring the billboards said they are paid through next month. Even if some find them controversial, the group said they aren’t about to take the billboards down. “Many times... Continue Reading

The move was announced as Anglican leader Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, protested to the Pope in the Vatican over its plans to receive Anglican converts en masse. Pope Benedict XVI was last month accused of attempting to poach Anglicans unhappy about decisions taken in their church to ordain women and sexually-active homosexuals... Continue Reading

Obama Administration lawyers are likely still scratching their heads over how to respond to an extraordinary ruling in San Francisco. Last week, the chief judge of one of America’s most prominent federal courts ordered an Executive Branch agency to stop interfering with a court employee’s efforts to secure health insurance coverage for her wife. “The... Continue Reading