The Matching Game

SUPPLIES: Paper and pens.SET UP: Prepare a list of questions pertinent to all players, such as the following:• What is your partner's favorite book?• What would your partner say is his or her best t...

Letting Words Do Their Work

"Speak the truth to one another;render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace" (Zechariah 8:16). This solid piece of advice from the Old Testament prophet seems like an ethical commonplace...

Parents Needed in Culture Wars

Here was the question: Several mothers of girls ages 10 to 12 want to know whether they should allow their daughters to buy instrumental versions of two currently popular - though extremely inappropriate - s...

When It’s More than a Headache

With fall sports in full swing, concussions among student athletes are receiving more media attention than ever. High school athletes sustained 137,000 concussions in the 2007-8 school year, according to a s...

Taming Your Digital Distractions

Is there any human invention more duplicitous than the personal computer? These machines were manufactured and initially marketed as devices to help us at work. We were told they would perform amazing feats ...

The Right Way to Pray?

The Brooklyn Tabernacle, a 3,500-seat evangelical prayer palace in downtown Brooklyn, was built in 1918 as one of the largest and grandest vaudeville houses in North America. It is still a hot ticket. Its yo...

Saving Witches in Kolwezi

Ignace Maloba, a Wesleyan pastor in rural Congo, has had an unexpected new ministry as of late: hunting child witches. Four years ago, local informants led him to the dusty back streets of Kolwezi, a copper-...