Abortion Linked to Depression

The British Medical Journal (1-19-02) reported that women who abort a first pregnancy are at greater risk of subsequent long-term clinical depression ...

"Life as a House": Making a Wrong Right

In the movie Life as a House, George, a forty-something employee at an architectural firm, loses his job and his health. When he learns he has only four ...

Guilty Plea Brings Freedom

The banner headline across the top of one Chicago Tribune read, "Guilty Plea Sets Inmate Free." The picture showed the freed man embracing his ...

Relating to Sopranos' Regret

The TV series about modern day gangsters struck a chord with a record number of viewers. "The Sopranos" boasts tens of millions of watchers ...

Shoplifter Comes Clean...Almost

The story is told of a shoplifter who writes to a department store and says, "I've just become a Christian, and I can't sleep at night because ...

What Can the Guilty Say?

While a seminary student at Regent College I had an assignment to attend and report on churches in various worship traditions outside my own. One evening ...

Carrying Blessings and Burdens

There is an old legend about three men and their sacks. Each man had two sacks, one tied in front of his neck and the other tied on his back. When the ...

Allure of Adultery

Chuck Colson writes in Breakpoint:

I still remember my sadness on hearing that an old friend, and someone I believed was a sincere Christian, was leaving ...

Torment of Guilt

Let me tell you about Sarah. She was rich. Very, very rich. Not only was her income a thousand dollars a day, but she had inherited twenty million. That's ...

Consequences of Adultery

Richard: "Cheating was the worst mistake I ever made in my life. I don't know that we wouldn't have gotten a divorce, but I felt really bad ...