From Persecutor of the Church to Persecuted Pastor

Before he met Jesus, Ravan worked as a paid assailant for the RSS, a Hindu nationalist organization in India. For seven years, Ravan relished his role ...

Leaving Hate Behind

Tom Tarrants was serving a 35-year sentence in prison for attempting to bomb a Jewish businessman’s residence. Previously, Tarrants had avoided ...

Super Spectators Show What They Value Most

In an article called “Super Spectators,” USA Today writers asked sports fanatics to describe the lengths to which they would go to support their teams. ...

Fan Won’t Give Up Sports for $25 Million

"If somebody offered you $2 million, could you give up sports for two years?" This was the question a sports radio station recently asked its listeners. ...

Misplaced Faith Leads to Son’s Death

Hank Hanegraaff writes:

In 1980, Harvest House published a book by Larry Parker entitled We Let Our Son Die. The book tells the tragic story of how ...

Nigerian Christians Oppose Human Sacrifices

Responding to persistent reports of human sacrifice last August, police raided several shrines of African traditional religionists in Okija, Anambra state, ...

Tainted Spirituality

When you look at our history, it is no wonder that spirituality is so often treated with suspicion, and not infrequently with outright hostility. For ...

Pious Evil

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Running in Circles

I once read the following definition of a fanatic: "A fanatic is a person who, having lost sight of his goal, redoubles his effort to get there." ...