Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds Teenagers Who Make Such Promises Are Just as Likely to Have Sex, and Less Likely to Use Protection, the Data Indicate By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Mo…

Amish menAbraham LincolnNick-Don Stanton RoarkAnswer? Sweet-action beards minus mustaches. -NDSR

Recently, a coworker came to work with her eye swollen shut. Knowing what we know about her home life, none of us were very surprised when explained my saying that she'd made her boyfriend angry. So the topic of dome…

It says in the Psalms that the sun, moon, stars, the water above the heavens, as well as the sea monsters and the ocean depths, the hail, wind and lightning... all of them praise God as their creator. It's just in the…

I hear if you make friends with Jesus Christ You'll get right up from that chalk outline And you'll get dolled up and you'll dress in white All to take your place in his chorus line And in you'll come with those marchin…

It is often said that the failure of the Western churches is of the first kind: irrelevence, failure to make contact. I want to suggest, on the contrary, that it is failure of the second kind, that the Christian churche…

Some decades ago war may have been an instrument which, although it was brutal, could be used to resolve intolerable international tension; but today, owing to the fact that it cannot be controlled, it has lost even this…

May 3, 2006 | Issue 42•18MEXICO CITY—As dozens of major American corporations continue to move their manufacturing operations to Mexico, waves of job-seeking Mexican immigrants to the United States have…

Gay rights activists as well as the pro-abortion lobby are openly angry and critical of President-elect Obama for choosing Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inaugural ceremony in January. The liberal critic…

So if your job was to decide how to discipline the journalist, what would be done with him?

The expression, "being born again," was not first used by our Lord in his conversation with Nicodemus: It was well known before that time, and was in common use among the Jews when our Saviour appeared among them. When a…

Do you have any religious affiliations? I'm part of a non-denominational reformation movement that identifies itself as the Church of God, the name gene…

The Joe Biden commemorative plate: "I'm with change."

In the first Christmas, the ownership of truth is taken away from the religious establishment and given to everyone who shouldn't have it. Ceremonially unclean shepherds, foreign pagans, Jewish peasants, even the ox and…

My church just finished the process of candidating for a new pastor. And for the record, I am enthusiastically positive about the choice they made in Steve Chiles, from Olathe, KS, though there are a few questions I wou…

10 Dec 2008, 0207 hrs IST, Ashish Vashi, TNN AHMEDABAD: Not many know that there was another wheel in Mahatma Gandhi’s life, apart from the spinning wheel. When he moved to Ahmedabad in 1915, he rode the …

Yeah. That could be me. If only my face would stop hurting. Personally, I don't ride messenger style. I ride Copenhagen style. No special clothing, no dodging in and out of traffic, no especial need to get anywher…

(1) Root canal (2) Sleep forever -NDSR

Remember, and the idea cannot be too strongly enforced, that inspiration is not omniscience. The apostle Paul could write the epistle to the Romans, but he never knew how to make a steam engine or a locomotive... Look n…

This is clearly a man with priorities. I hope that I'm on the right track. -NDSR

Jesus lived this new creation out in his table fellowship with those whom the religious establishment had branded outcasts, sinners, renegades: the enemies of God. He did not wait for them to repent, become respectable,…

Just as summer wouldn't be summer with Dashboard Confessional, and midnight wouldn't be midnight without Miles Davis, winter wouldn't be winter without Elliott Smith. -NDSR