Luxury Cruise Turns Sour

Recently I spoke with a friend named Carol (name changed) who had just returned from a difficult ocean cruise. She works for an organization that was ...

Easter in Pakistan

While serving in Peshawar, Pakistan, for the Institute for Global Engagement, an organization that promotes sustainable environments for religious freedom ...

Baghdad Pastor Shows Love to Shiite Party

Ghassan Thomas leads one of the few public churches that emerged [in Baghdad] after Saddam Hussein was toppled. His congregation erected a sign on their ...

Graduate Student Risks Reputation for One Small Step of Faith

Courtney Ellis writes:

When I attended graduate school for English, there were many occasions when my fellow students openly ridiculed the name of Christ. ...

The Problem with Peacemakers

Peacemakers are honored insofar as they speak about peace as something already victoriously won that we can celebrate as part of our glorious past or ...

Alone in the Wind for God

Certain it is that the reason there is so much shallow living—much talk but little obedience—is that so few are prepared to be, like the pine ...

"We Do This for Jesus"

On December 9, 2007, Matthew Murray shot and killed Tiffany Johnson, 26, and Philip Crouse, 24, at a Youth With a Mission (YWAM) training center in the ...

The Historical Rejection of Christianity

Eighteen hundred years or so of Hebrew history, capped by a full exposition in Jesus Christ, tell us that God's revelation of himself is rejected ...

The Offensive Side of the Gospel

I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense in it.

—Author Dorothy Sayers

Chinese Prisoner Finds True Freedom

Thousands of Chinese Christians were killed during the Boxer Rebellion—a nationwide effort to snuff out any foreign influences in China that were ...