The word judgment carries negative overtones for a good many people in our liberal and postliberal world. We need to remind ourselves that throughout the Bible God's coming judgment is a good thing, something to be celebrated, longed for, yearned over. It causes people to shout for joy and the trees of the field to clap their hands. In a world of systematic injustice, bullying, violence, arrogance, ...

At 15, Raymond Germany didn't heed his mother [Debra's] pleas to leave the "thug life." He became a successful drug dealer, sometimes making $1,000 a day. Then, in July 2001, his career in crime ended abruptly. Shot in the back of his head, he died alone on an empty staircase in a housing project. He was 23.

At first Debra could only cry. Then she became a mother on a Christian mission.

In March 2002, ...

God has made [our] fantasies … so preposterously unrewarding that we are forced to turn to him for help and for mercy. We seek wealth and find we've accumulated worthless pieces of paper. We seek security and find we've acquired the means to blow ourselves and our little earth to smithereens. We seek carnal indulgence only to find ourselves involved in the prevailing erotomania.

—Malcolm ...

Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is the third installment in "The Mummy" franchise of movies. Each of the stories follows Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) and his wife, Evelyn (Maria Bello), as they hunt for buried artifacts and confront monsters of all kinds. In this scene, Rick and Evelyn have just discovered that their son, Alex (Luke Ford), has dropped out of college in order to follow in his parents' ...

Tom Mauser can relate to the terrible pain of the parents of students killed in the April 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech. Eight years before, he lost his 15-year-old son, Daniel, in the shootings at Columbine High School.

Within a month of Daniel's death, Tom began speaking out against gun violence. His journey led him to become president of the board of the gun control group "Colorado Ceasefire," ...

After successfully separating numerous Siamese twins and continuing to refine the techniques of several complicated surgeries, Dr. Ben Carson has become known throughout the world as a premiere brain surgeon. What many do not know is that because of an uncontrollable temper as a child, Dr. Carson's career was almost over before it began. In his book Take the Risk, Dr. Carson writes about the day he ...

From 1991 to 2007, Fuller Theological Seminary's School of Intercultural Studies conducted a survey among 750 Muslims who had converted to Christianity. Those surveyed represented 50 ethnic groups from 30 different countries. Here were the nine most-cited reasons for conversion to the Christian faith:

1. Christians practiced what they preached.

2. Christians appeared to have loving marriages in which ...

Does watching certain movies or television shows harm your spiritual life? Experts debate about whether viewing violence, disturbing images, profane conversation, and explicit sexual conduct affects children and adults.

Regarding their own three children, Hollywood megastars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are considering the same issue. In one interview, Brad Pitt said: "We have been having this discussion ...

I was in line at the grocery checkout. A few feet in front of me, a mother guided her toddler ahead, anchored her baby on her hip, and elbowed her checkbook open to pay the clerk. In what seemed like one single gesture, she retrieved her toddler's hand from the candy rack, tore the check from her book and offered it to the clerk while placing a comforting smooch atop her baby's head. The baby drooled ...

For reasons I cannot quite remember (perhaps the guidebooks or the guide himself told us it wasn't much to get worked up about), I wasn't excited to visit the birthplace of Christ [while on a study tour of Israel in the summer of 2000]. I recall wishing we could spend our time in Jerusalem, but I didn't have a choice. If the group was going to Bethlehem, I was, too.

We walked through the dusty streets ...