Violent Young Men

I saw the Halo youth-ministry story that everyone’s commenting on when I picked up a copy of the New York Times at the airport on Sunday. For those lucky enough not to have read the story, it seems that staging nights of playing Halo 3 (a rather violent video...

Violent Young Men

I saw the Halo youth-ministry story that everyone’s commenting on when I picked up a copy of the New York Times at the airport on Sunday. For those lucky enough not to have read the story, it seems that staging nights of playing Halo 3 (a rather violent video...

Help Save a Sinking SCHIP

I pay attention when the Gospels show Jesus’ anger. In addition to a few confrontations with religious hardliners, there are only a few other notable episodes. When Peter’s suggests that Jesus would not endure any hardships, Jesus rebukes him with,...

What Should Churches Do About Immigration?

Let’s face it: Global migrations in the 21st century will not disappear just because of wishful thinking. While 6.3 billion people in the world in 2002 were native born, according to the BBC’s “Fact File: Global Migrations,” 175 million were...