Rosie Villegas-Smith was spending a Saturday handing out flyers with volunteers from Voces Unidas, a pro-life nonprofit, when she noticed a group gathering signatures. 　　The woman who approached her never mentioned the word abortion, only referring to womens rights, but she quickly realized what they were campaigning for: a ballot measure on expanding abortion access in Arizona in the November...

　　Millions of Black South Africans seek guidance from sangomas, traditional healers or so-called witch doctors who use their spiritual gifts to connect with ancestors, prescribe herbs to heal illnesses, and throw dry bones to predict the future. 　　Its a centuries-old tradition that has continued in the majority-Christian country and has adapted for the internet age: A new breed of influencer...

　　Economic history—the study of economic phenomena, processes, and patterns in past time, employing tools from economics, history, and other disciplines—is a small field. For a brief time, roughly half a century ago, it was a hot area of scholarly interest, but from the 1970s until the early twenty-first century its fortunes ebbed, as historians gravitated to trendier fields such as...

　　Wednesday, May 8, 2024 　　Time to Come Clean 　　Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith. (2 Corinthians 13:5 NLT) 　　The band Milli Vanilli was quite successful in its day, selling millions of albums. But then came the...

　　Despite years of record-setting declines shrinking the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to its lowest membership in nearly half a century, Southern Baptists have begun to see some signs of life within their 46,906 churches. 　　Worship attendance, small group attendance, and baptisms were up last year in the SBCs annual statistical report, released Tuesday, while membership fell below 13 million. 　　2023...

　　A cancer diagnosis flips your world and your life upside down. It distorts the way you view reality and compresses time. It forces you to weigh alternatives and make choices that normal people don’t have to make and conventional circumstances don’t dictate. Deciding to treat it, and specifically how to treat it, involves not merely what is available, but what...

　　Jack Balkin’s new book, Memory and Authority, opens with an account of the “modalities” of historical argument that lawyers and judges may employ in interpreting the Constitution. These include arguments based on text, constitutional structure, and purpose, but also factors like “national ethos,” “political tradition,” and “honored authority.” It soon emerges that Balkin’s underlying goal in listing these approaches, as...

　　How to live in light of your identity in Christ 　　And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus… -Ephesians 2:6 　　In the ninth century, King Alfred the Great saved England from conquest by the Danish. At one point during his war with the Danes, Alfred was forced to seek...

　　The website for 99.1 JOY FM in St. Louis features a scrolling playlist of its lineup of Christian pop music and a listen now button to tune in to the simulcast broadcast. But visitors may find that after a few hours of streaming artists like Lauren Daigle and Brandon Lake, the site may kick them off. 　　Because of higher royalty...

　　A banner hangs outside the Church of God in the village of El Rincn, Honduras, that says, Lets be part of the solution, not the pollution. 　　Its a message pastor Wilfredo Vsquez posted after witnessing the harmful effects of plastics in his community. 　　More and more, I understand that if we want to see changes in any area of society,...

　　More Than A Sliver of Hope (John 11:40) 　　By Rachael Adams 　　Today’s Bible Verse:Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” - John 11:40 ESV 　　Though the night was silent, my mind was anything but. Frustrated, I was awake when I should have been asleep, I gazed at...

　　A Prayer to Uproot the Lies in My Life 　　By Alisha Headley 　　“Stand therefore, having girded your waist in the belt of truth …” - Ephesians 6:14 　　The Apostle Paul gives us a guideline in the book of Ephesians on how to guard ourselves daily against the enemy. Paul beautifully outlines the spiritual armor of God we have access to...