People all over the globe are coming down with a new illness: Linsanity. Symptoms of Linsanity include buying Knicks season tickets just to see Jeremy Lin even though you hate basketball, buying no. 17 Knicks jerseys for all your friends and sending out chain e-mails with links to Lin’s college highlights reel. Though it’s not [...]

“Black people are so lazy. They need to get off the welfare and food stamps and get jobs.” Though that sounds like something Archie Bunker would’ve said back in the day, it’s actually the kind of stuff Gingrich people are accusing Republican presidential candidate hopefuls Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich of saying on the campaign [...]

LONDON — Christians in England and Wales are losing ground about as fast as nonbelievers are gaining it, according to a new government-sponsored poll. The British government’s latest Citizenship Survey reports that in the five years leading up to 2010, the percentage of declared Christians in the region dropped by 7 percent, although they nonetheless [...]

Located just 17 miles southeast of Philadelphia, Pitman, N.J., has the rural feel of fictional Bedford Falls in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Life, however, became a lot less wonderful for Pitman’s mayor, Mike Batten, a week ago when he received an email from Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, [...]

Morality in Media kicked off its 24th annual White Ribbon Against Pornography week on Sunday. According to Dawn Hawkins, MIM’s executive director, this year’s WRAP week campaign events will feature testimony from people such as ex-porn stars, doctors, scholars, therapists, Internet safety experts and feminist leaders. To show their solidarity against pornography, this week thousands [...]

According to a New Barna study, 93 percent of American church-goers are concerned about poverty around the world. Of those surveyed those younger than 40 were most concerned about global poverty. The study, commissioned by Compassion International was conducted in September. Barna surveyed 1,429 American adults. Major findings of the study included: •Ninety-three percent of [...]

Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, one of the most prominent Baptist churches in the country, caused an uproar recently when he said Republicans shouldn’t vote for potential Republican Party presidential candidate Mitt Romney because he’s in a cult. Jeffress made the bold statement before introducing White House hopeful Rick Perry [...]

In Mexico City, lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow for two–year marriage licenses. In the wake of the legalization of gay marriage in the city, the bill is at the center of controversy over family values and the definition of marriage. Proponents of the bill say that one of the big reasons the [...]

I was in the hardware store when I first heard the news, though I did not know what I was hearing. As the cashier tallied my purchase, I overheard a reporter on the store’s radio make the peculiar announcement that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. At the time, I thought of [...]

Last week my son asked me a profound theological question: “Why did God make stinging bugs?” Stumped, I told him to talk directly to God about it. Pausing for just a moment to consider my inadequate answer, he countered, “You know I can’t talk to God; I’m not even dead yet!” In my son’s literal [...]