Moral Direction … Ingrained?

For many years, churches, schools, and other institutions have worked to foster morally upright individuals, but neuro- and social science studies are showing we are failing to address some of the underlying in...

Red Letter Day for Many HIV+

Tom Davis believes Jesus is a widow named Tuli, an HIV+ woman living in Swaziland. In 2003, Davis took me to Russia and showed me Jesus in the eyes of a three-year-old girl abandoned by her parents. In that mo...

Java Flows at Ecclesia Church

When the coffee flows at Ecclesia Church in Houston, there is much more at stake than enhancing the worship experience for weekend attenders.  Ecclesia was intentionally planted in the heart of ...

Field Trips Slipping into Past

Mark Proffitt still remembers the thrill of being sprung from school for class outings to Old Sturbridge Village or the state Capitol. "You couldn't wait to go on field trips," recalled Proffitt, now an element...

The Risks of Teen Dating

Aside from the well known, but often ignored emotional and social risks associated with teen dating, violence and abuse in teen relationships is a widespread problem.       Emotional abuse is...

Student Fights for Egg Rights

A 20-year-old Colorado online law student has become a cause celebre in the anti-abortion movement for her efforts to have the state Constitution define fertilized eggs as people – a tactic spreading nati...

Golden Compass, Dark Confusion

      His Dark Materials is a trio of fantasy novels written by Philip Pullman, including The Golden Compass, published in 1995. A fantasy movie of The Golden Compass that will surely attract ...

Family Shunned After Suicide

Residents of Waterford Crystal Drive have turned against neighbor, Lori Drew, and her family, demanding they relocate. Drew became an outcast after she participated in a hoax in which a fictional teenager excha...