Christians Give Up Alcohol Out of Love for Neighbors

In a Christianity Today article, a 30-year-old Christian named D.L. Mayfield describes how her and her husband made a decision to abstain from alcohol: ...

Christian Missions' Human Rights Advocates

Few people have written about the real-life 19th-century missionary John Mackenzie. When white settlers in South Africa threatened to take over the natives' ...

The Poor Can't Afford to Have "Bad Luck"

Gary Haugen, an ardent Christ-follower and the President of International Justice Mission, has seen global poverty up close for the last two decades. ...

Global Violence Against Women and Girls

In the developing world, gender discrimination takes on violent and lethal forms.

• Globally, 5,000 women and girls are murdered every year in so-called "honor killings" by family members who feel disgraced because a sister or daughter has seemed to act immodestly, or because they have fallen in love with the wrong guy, or because (most cruelly) they have been "defiled" by rape.

Justice for the Poor Resembles a Broken-down Truck

To visualize the way public justice systems in the developing world "work" for hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people, I find ...

Tim Keller's "Sequel" to the Good Samaritan

We're all familiar with the parable of the Good Samaritan. A despised Samaritan stops to help a man who has been beaten by robbers. One of the main ...

Attorney Explains How We Allow Human Trafficking

People sometimes ask, How could sex trafficking happen in America's small towns or big cities? Julie Waters, a family law attorney and director of ...

Swim Coach Sees the Needs in His Own City

For years, Doug Banister, a Christian from Knoxville, Tennessee, had taken mission trips to Romania. God had moved powerfully on those trips, but Doug ...

Rickety Kayak Shows Our Quest for Freedom

In the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, there's a special display for a rickety, home-made aluminum kayak. This tiny, makeshift boat ...

How Justification by Faith Transforms Lives and Communities

One day theologian Miroslav Volf was visiting a friend who pastors a church in Sandtown, a desperately poor and dangerous neighborhood in Baltimore. As ...