Save Darfur Facebook Likes Prove Fruitless

A 2014 study led by Dr. Kurt Gray from UNC Chapel Hill analyzed the Save Darfur Facebook page. More than 1.17 million members had indicated they were ...

Heavenly-Minded Christians Care for Refugees

It's possible to be so heavenly-minded that we are of no earthly good. But Professor Todd Whitmore from Notre Dame has also observed how being heavenly-minded ...

St. Nicholas—Patron Saint of Pawn Shops

Many people don't realize that Santa Claus, based on the real historical person of Saint Nicholas, a leader in the early church from the city of Myra, ...

Faith Helped Woman Confront Terrorists

In May of 2013 in Woolwich, England, two Islamic extremists attacked a British soldier and hacked him to death with a machete. It was a gruesome crime ...

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 "15-70-15 Rule" of Involvement

In his work with International Justice (a Christian ministry that works to free the victims of human trafficking), Gary Haugen says he has noticed what ...

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 ...

Christianity Radically Changed View of the Poor

In his massive study of wealth and poverty in ancient society, scholar Peter Brown traces a radical shift in society's view of the poor and marginalized. ...