Like many of you, I’ve had the unfortunate privilege of picking up the pieces following a crisis that ripped through our student ministry. In our case, it was a murder-suicide. I also was touched personal...

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” This line from Juliet’s famous speech on the balcony to her tragic lover Romeo is one of the most ...

We’ve heard it said that God loves us as we are, but He also loves us too much to leave us as we are.God is more concerned with our character than our comfort, but we often resist the deep growth necessar...

We drive for an hour or more in a beatup minivan, inching past multicolored buses, Mayan women carrying loaded baskets, children and skinny dogs. Painted signs assault us—ads for Coke, cell phones, Burge...

Late in the evening of the presidential election last November, as Barack Obama addressed the nation for the first time in his role as President-elect, a Facebook (and real life) friend of mine named Brandon po...

When is a youth worker finished discipling a young person? I recently debated this question with peers at an urban ministry conference. Many said discipleship efforts could stop when a young person reached...

The “Sex Workers Art Show” returned for the fourth time to the campus of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, this week. Described by USA Today as an “eye-popping evening of visual and ...

A prominent Danish theologian, who is part of a commission set up to modernize the Vatican and the papacy, says that Pope Benedict XVI is out of touch with reality.Pope Benedict XVI is the wrong man for the job...

A federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration on Monday to make the Plan B morning-after birth control pill available without prescription to women as young as 17. The judge ruled that the agency ha...

The University of Notre Dame is sticking with its invitation to President Obama to speak at its May 17 commencement despite criticism from some Roman Catholics that his views on abortion and stem cell research ...