Pastor Reflects on His "Mama's" Love and Prayers

E. V. (Ed) Hill, who pastored Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, tells the story of how "Mama's" love and prayers changed ...

Giving Our Children More than Safety

Gary Haugen, president and CEO of International Justice Mission, a Christian organization dedicated to fighting sex trafficking, writes,

After we have ...

God Delights to Give His Children Gifts

In his book Pure Pleasure, Gary Thomas reminds us that the Heavenly Father we meet in and through Jesus Christ loves to give his children gifts.

Once, ...

Measuring Time by Opportunities, Not by the Clock

Gregory Spencer writes in Awakening the Quieter Virtues:

One of the louder virtues in American culture is efficiency. It's what makes the clock of ...

Photojournalist Decides It's Time to Focus on Family

For sixteen years, Lo Scalzo served as a photojournalist for U.S. News and World Report. He covered assignments in more than 60 countries, winning countless ...

Father and Son Spend One Year Hunting for Treasure Together

On January 1, 2008, Keith Severin and his 7-year-old son, Adrien, agreed that every day, for one whole year, they would spend at least 15 minutes searching ...

What Children Need Most

It's not better teachers, texts, or curricula that our children need most; it's better childhoods, and we will never see lasting school reform ...

Two Men, Same Name, Different Life Outcomes

The book The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates tells the story of two black men with the same name. Both were born in Maryland. Both grew up with single ...

Woman Discovers God as Her Father

In his book Invitation to a Journey, author M. Robert Mulholland Jr. tells the story of a woman he met who was the result of an unwanted pregnancy. She ...

Winning a Son's Heart

In his book The Masculine Mandate, pastor and author Richard D. Phillips writes of his meaningful relationship with his father. In 1972, Phillips was ...