Chinese Official Praises the Role of Christianity

In his book Civilization: The West and the Rest, Niall Ferguson interviewed a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, an arm of the Communist ...

Businessman's Vision Leads to 100 Little League Teams for Underprivileged Kids

On his way to work one day, Chicago insurance broker Bob Muzikowski saw a derelict ball field full of trash in a gang-infested neighborhood. The kids ...

Group of Mothers Makes Big Impact on Gang War Zone

In the early 1990s, gang violence erupted in Boyle Heights, a section of East Los Angeles. Eight gangs were in conflict in the parish around the Dolores ...

Women More Religious Than Men

According to a 2009 study by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, women are more religious than men:

• Women (86 percent) are more likely than men (79 percent) to be affiliated with a religion.

Growing Number of U.S. Adults in Correctional System

According to a 2009 study by the Pew Center, the proportion of U.S. adults in the corrections system is 1 in 31. A similar study in 1982 found that the ...

Creating Change from the Bottom Up

Two weeks after the [2008 presidential] election, I traveled to India to meet Christian pioneers seeking to overturn India's institutional form of discrimination, ...

Religion's Influence on American Life

Americans who say religion is losing its influence on American life: 67 percent

Americans who said this in April 2005: 50 percent

Americans who said this ...

Brad Pitt on Good Society

On the issue of legalizing same-sex marriage, even Christians who agree that it is wrong differ about whether Christians should make it a political issue. ...

Christians as God's "Plan A"

There's over 2,500 verses in the Bible that deal with the issue of helping the poor, the sick, the hungry. God set it up that we are to address this issue ...

Sports May Fill Spiritual Vacuum

In an essay titled "The Future of Sport" presented at the 2004 conference of the World Future Society, author and futurist Robin Gunston examines ...