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 ...

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. ...

Evangelism and Social Justice Should Both Get Our Attention

Editor's Note: Andy Crouch sets up the quote below with these two sentences: "These days I do not often meet Christians so passionate about evangelism ...

Tim Keller's "Sequel" to the Good Samaritan

We're all familiar with the parable of the Good Samaritan. A despised Samaritan stops to help a man who has been beaten by robbers. One of the main lessons ...

Ex-Christian Praises the Church's Social Efforts

John Marks, a producer for television's 60 Minutes, went on a two-year quest to investigate evangelicals, the group he had grown up among and later rejected. ...

Prayers Bring Fruit at International Justice Mission

In April 2011, the staff of The International Justice Mission (or IJM), a Christian organization that works to rescue victims of slavery and sexual exploitation, ...

Attorney Explains How We Allow Human Trafficking

People sometimes ask, How could sex trafficking happen in America's small towns or big cities? Julie Waters, a family law attorney and director of Free ...

Ice Age Film on Escaping World Problems

In the movie Ice Age: Continental Drift, the film's beloved trio—Manny the wooly mammoth, Sid the sloth, and Diego the saber-toothed cat—embark ...

A Parable about How Our 'Help' Can Hurt Others

An African Christian leader shared the following story about his experience with receiving "help" from well-meaning American mission partners: ...