Not everyone celebrates Christmas the same way we do here in North America.

The measures churches have implemented to protect people are largely reactionary, not preventative. How do you hedge against a sin that originates in the human heart?

At the risk of insulting the intelligence of his student, Solomon calls him a “sluggard” and tells him to go learn how to live wisely from an insect.

The opportunities and open doors to reach out to those who are “least” are without limit.

Experts can usually tell when something has been manipulated, but what about the rest of us?

Babel is, after all, the key narrative to which we can trace the origins of our current predicament of globalization.

Eating that soup—it was as if God was inviting me to be part of the family. 

I was not the man of God I had portrayed; instead, I was in need of restoration and healing grace.

If I only publish articles I fully agree with, then I would be guilty of turning The Banner into my own personal megaphone. 

I wonder if the faithfulness required of us, as we wait for our wedding feast to begin, is a kind of political chastity. 

Many of my students ask whether you can have a calling if you do not believe in God.

There’s a certain spirituality that adorned our council rooms in the past, and that’s what might be oozing away.

Is it smart to give money outright like this to young people with no directions?

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I felt badly about throwing away so many things, but I had to remind myself: it is not my fault my ancestors kept these things. I am not responsible to inherit all my mother’s belongings.

Our house isn’t really “ours.” We’re temporary caretakers of a home that will stand, Lord willing, long after we’re gone.

There must be a lot of incompetent scientists in North America if half their membership still believe in something their own field has apparently disproved!

Your church’s organ can bridge the gap between young and old and provide an amazing depth and richness not only to the sound, but to the experience.

A church denomination intent on family unity has a chance of finding a way to remain united.  

Sometimes we plant seeds that will take so long to grow that we know we won’t be alive to reap the benefit of their eventual shade and strength. 

더 많이 아는 사람들이 자신의 능력에 대해 더 겸손한 경향을 보이는 것은 그들이 자신의 한계를 더 잘 알기 때문입니다.

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The Bible says God hates “lying lips,” but there are also stories, such as Rahab helping the Israelite spies, where lying seems to be a good thing. So is lying sometimes okay?