What Baltimore Needs

On May 1st, 2015, six Baltimore police officers were charged in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who died last month after suffering a severe ...

Christians Give Up Alcohol Out of Love for Neighbors

In a Christianity Today article, a 30-year-old Christian named D.L. Mayfield describes how her and her husband made a decision to abstain from alcohol: ...

Statistics on Injustice Against African Americans

Here are a few reasons why race relations in America deserve more attention, not less:

• The net worth of the average black household in the United States is $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to 2011 census data. The gap has worsened in the last decade, and the United States now has a greater wealth gap by race than South Africa did during apartheid.

Christian Missions' Human Rights Advocates

Many people still have the misconception that most Christian missionaries were like Nathan Price, the mean-spirited patriarch in Barbara Kingsolver's ...

The Poor Can't Afford to Have "Bad Luck"

Gary Haugen, an ardent Christ-follower and the President of International Justice Mission, has seen global poverty up close for the last two decades. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Swim Coach Sees the Needs in His Own City

For years, Doug Banister, a Christian from Knoxville, Tennessee, had taken mission trips to Romania. God had moved powerfully on those trips, but Doug ...