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Worth the Read: The Church Fathers

In the Gospel according to St. Matthew, Matthew tells how people brought their children to Jesus so he could lay their hands on them. The...

Picture this: a group of seven college students, necks bent, scalpels in hand, stand over the dead body of an older man. They chat, make...

What if he falls into sin? What is he comes under the influence of false teachers? What if he leaves the faith entirely?

When I reflect back on my childhood, I am struck by the fact that my parents never taught me what to think per say, but greatly...

It only took 45 minutes for our lives to drastically change forever. That is the amount of time it takes to go from Cuba, a third-world...

I was recently having a conversation with a friend who attends a huge state school. For the sake of this article, we’ll call her Hannah....

Dear Students at John Brown University, I have had the privilege of being a student athlete on the women’s volleyball team at John Brown...

Recently, I, like many of you, sat down to eat a large, diverse collection of foods with a larger, more diverse collection of people. To...

“All right, class. Make sure and turn in that response to the excerpt by Jean M. Twenge on the way in,” announced the teacher, making me...

According to the most recent data on tithing, only 10-25% of Christians in the United States tithe. Per capita, Christians in the United...