Hate-Filled Protester Transformed By 'Soft Answer'

Megan Phelps-Roper has been on the picket lines for the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church since the age of five. The members are notorious for picketing ...

A Private Letter from Ronald Reagan to His Dying Father-In-Law

Something tugged at Ronald Reagan on that August weekend in 1982. The President noted in his diary: “More of Saturdays work plus a long letter I ...

Comedian Turns Snarky Reply into Generosity

As a veteran comedian and improv actor, Patton Oswalt is known to have a ready retort for anyone heckling or giving him grief. But one particular time, ...

Political Opponents Finish Debate by Making Music Together

At the end of their debate, two candidates for a Vermont state House seat asked the moderator for a few extra minutes—not to make last-second appeals ...

How Democracies Perish

Notre Dame political scientist Patrick Deneen’s new book, Why Liberalism Failed, is a challenge to those who want to revive the liberal democratic ...

Persecuted US Pastor in Turkish Prison Glorifies Christ

Beginning in October 2016, American pastor, Andrew Brunson, was held in Turkey as a political hostage. Pastor Brunson is accused of having links with ...

President McKinley Was Guided by Prayer in Life and Death

Robert Morgan writes that as President William McKinley lay dying from an assassin's bullet in Buffalo, New York, in 1901, the Lord's Prayer was ...

The Church Is the Conscience of the State

"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and ...

The Presidential Race: The Greatest Show on Earth?

(Note: Although this story was written in 2016, it still is very much applicable to today)

This year's U.S. presidential race is sure getting interesting—to ...

Presidential Candidates Want to Know You Personally

This year's presidential candidates might know you better than you know yourself. According to Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, candidates' ...