“I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors: You have given me wisdom and power, you have made known to me what we asked of you…” Daniel 2:23 (NIV) 　　On a trip to a place where some of my ancestors lived – Ireland – I participated in an international prayer retreat. The other people I met at the retreat...

　　A volunteer Southern Baptist task force charged with implementing abuse reforms in the nations largest Protestant denomination will end its work next week without a single name published on a database of abusers. 　　The task forces report marks the second time a proposed database for abusive pastors has been derailed by denominational apathy, legal worries, and a desire to protect...

　　A prominent association of American colleges and universities has created a new commission of religious schools whose aim will be to share with their nonreligious counterparts recent successes in the areas of access and affordability and the innovations that have led to growth in recent years. 　　The Commission on Faith-based Colleges and Universities, recently announced by the American Council on...

　　The Italian Enlightenment thinker Giambattista Vico, who is often said to be the father of the philosophy of history, studied cycles of civilizations of the past. He observed that the rise of civilizations is marked by an evolution in communication, from mute religious acts to visual symbology to, finally, language, which allows laws to be articulated. Civilizational decline, on the...

　　A Prayer to Let Go of Offense 　　By Lynette Kittle 　　“A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense” - Proverbs 19:11 　　Doesn’t it seem like individuals are easily offended these days? Even more so, it seems like some are looking for reasons to be offended. Social media has made it easier than ever to...

　　Wycliffe Bible Translators building is 167,000 square feet of class-A office space, with windows looking out over palm trees, golf course grass, and a shimmering blue lake that appears to be a near-perfect circle. The headquarters is about 10 miles from the Orlando airport in the Lake Nona area, sitting on 272 lush acres that include wetlands filled with Florida...

　　Harvard has had a very bad year. It began last summer with the Supreme Courts verdict in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which declared that the universitys admissions policies were unconstitutionally discriminatory—or in plain terms, racist. Then came October 7, when Hamas unilaterally broke a cease-fire to attack Israel, killing 1,200 and kidnapping some 250, with many of the...

　　Francis Collins, the former longtime head of the National Institutes of Health and founder of BioLogos, has seen deaths in his work as a physician and researcher. But some of those have been personal: He watched his brother-in-law die a slow and painful death from complications of hepatitis C, an often fatal disease that attacks the liver. Rick Boterf died...

　　Wycliffe Bible Translators building is 167,000 square feet of class-A office space, with windows looking out over palm trees, golf course grass, and a shimmering blue lake that appears to be a near-perfect circle. The headquarters is about 10 miles from the Orlando airport in the Lake Nona area, sitting on 272 lush acres that include wetlands filled with Florida...

　　“Are you ready to do your duty for Rome?” 　　From its first line, the most important scene in Gladiator, the winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2000, explores the citizen’s responsibility in a republic. This is a timeless subject; indeed, the scene can help us understand, 2,000 years after the film’s setting, what civic duty means in...

　　What to Do When You're Fearing the Worst 　　By Meg Bucher 　　“For the Lord your God is living among you. 　　He is a mighty savior. 　　He will take delight in you with gladness. 　　With his love, he will calm all your fears. 　　He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.” - Zephaniah 3:17 NLT 　　“I don’t think you need to...

　　Even the Little Things Can be Honoring 　　By: Anne Peterson 　　Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. -Romans 12:10 　　I wasn’t always honoring toward my husband. It’s just that we’re so different. I’ll be honest; I have been known to roll my eyes when he explains something to me. Not that he could see me...