Cutting practice wasn’t an option at football-crazy Fordson, which is coming off a one-loss season and has won four state titles A Michigan high school football team is holding preseason practices in the middle of the night to help its Muslim players practice both faith and football. The predominantly Muslim squad from Dearborn says the... Continue Reading

Virus infected your computer? Call the Geek Squad. Temptation infected your soul? Ring up the God Squad Just don’t expect Father Luke Strand to show up in the same clever little car he’s been driving since his days in the seminary. The young priest’s attempt to add a little fun to his ministry has apparently... Continue Reading

Concerned Women for America has confirmed that Math Counts, a national math competition for teams and individual students in grades 6-8, will not allow homeschoolers to form teams and compete in the 2010-2011 school year. The Math Counts board unanimously decided to exclude homeschoolers in response to a few situations in which “super teams” were... Continue Reading

Using the tag line from the new AMC not-so-thriller Rubicon, “Not every conspiracy is simply a theory!” In World Magazine on July 17, Marvin Olasky called on “progressive evangelical” Jim Wallis to come clean and admit that he is not a non-partisan, as he likes to claim, but rather a devoted man of the Left?... Continue Reading

From biblical inerrancy to open theism, Pinnock was not afraid to change his mind. He came under the influence of Francis Schaeffer and worked for a time at L’Abri. Clark H. Pinnock’s life journey is over. The influential and often controversial evangelical theologian died unexpectedly August 15 of a heart attack. He was 73. In... Continue Reading

A well-known activist for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) issues, Spahr has faced several challenges in PCUSA courts because of her actions as a minister. With same-sex marriage dominating news headlines in California and across the country, retired Presbyterian Church (USA) minister the Rev. Jane Spahr weighed in during a brief interview last week on... Continue Reading

During the last two decades, Martin has helped steer scores of men and women in the ministry direction in which God was leading them. Dr. Joseph Martin recently was named Belhaven University’s 45th faculty member to be inducted into the Belhaven Legacy of Learning. This is a prestigious group consisting of men and women who... Continue Reading

One in a series of Chicagoland residents concerning their religious faith and practice. Kelly Chesnik, 26, is a Financial Aid Advisor at Harrington College of Design. She lives near the North Ave and Western Ave intersection in Wicker Park, Chicago. Kelly provided some thoughtful answers to my questions about her faith. What is your church... Continue Reading

‘The actress told him 20 years earlier that aborting her child was the greatest tragedy in her life.’ Patricia Neal, an actress whose long career began during the “Golden Age of Hollywood,” passed away Sunday in her home at the age of 84. But for the pro-life community, Neal is remembered as a strong advocate... Continue Reading

“Bye-bye church. We’re busy.” That’s the message teens are giving churches today. Only about one in four teens now participate in church youth groups, considered the hallmark of involvement; numbers have been flat since 1999. Other measures of religiosity — prayer, Bible reading and going to church — lag as well, according to Barna Group,... Continue Reading