Why and how to “pray for the peace of Jerusalem.”

What Madame Bovary taught me about love and life.

Post-disaster, Tokyo pastor Jonathan Wilson urges ‘outward-looking’ missions in reaching Japanese for Christ.

An overlooked summer thriller finds a new cinematic use for prayer.

Youth-focused Christianity may be sidelining the gifts of older women.

Releasing his first gospel album, the acclaimed singer talks about church, his father's legacy, and covering Bob Dylan.

Our new weekly cheat sheet with streaming picks, movie news, and a roundup of critics' responses to recent releases.

Healing the rift between parents and non-parents.

Woody Allen's latest: same lyrics, different melody, this time a variation on Tennessee Williams.

Replacing the restrictions of modesty with the appropriate attire of Christian love.

Less Rambo, more Die Hard, in the best way.

Out-of-this world commitment from people who seem less committed than ever.

After Trayvon Martin, we need only look to churches to see a glimmer of potential.

Is animal welfare (finally) returning to the Christian conscience?

Finding solidarity, inspiration, and conversation between Jewish and evangelical bloggers.

What the latest Kristen Wiig vehicle has to say to Christians who have embraced a culturally-engaged, intellectually serious faith.

Two movies out this weekend deal with death - in very different ways.

Here's some picks for those looking to stay in this weekend.

Pausing our Internet cynicism to celebrate the little moments.

With high rates of teen sexual activity, Christian parents must talk safe sex, too.

The unfair, unbiblical double standard that’s hurting our daughters.

What if your purported underdog is never anything but, well, an overdog?

Abortion, adoption, and yet again, ignorance over special needs.

The author of 'Inside Out' makes a new elevator pitch for male and female.

Racial reconciliation isn’t about being politically correct; it’s about being biblically correct.

It's an important factor, but it's not the whole story.

A timely little film hits it big at the box office. Also, Robert McKee, blockbusters, and Sharknado.

Richard Cox explores the findings of neuroscience on how we hear sermons.

Staying in this weekend? There's some great new releases on Amazon and Netflix.

Pacific Rim has monsters, but Grown Ups 2 is simply monstrous.

Pacific Rim has monsters, but Grown Ups 2 is simply monstrous.

After the death of my twins, I had to rethink what it means to be fearfully and wonderfully made.

In this tight-budget era, what works in theory likely won't result in legislative success.

New local purchasing efforts could be far more effective than current ones.

Sometimes you need to break up to grow up.

Larry Eskridge remembers the hippies, druggies, and assorted countercultural freaks who embraced Christianity in the late 1960s.

A Christian perspective in a spending, swiping economy

Transformation, redemption, and a certain raunchy Robin Thicke video.

How our love of brokenness actually fails us.

Christians are among America’s most compassionate people. But we can do a better job responding to the complexity of poverty.

Our country’s racial realities require us to turn to God… together.

The American revolutionaries justified their cause with ample appeals to Scripture. But what should Christians think of the conclusions they drew?

Churches might be spending too much time preparing us for missions and not enough for motherhood.

A brief look at the new film by the director of Gods and Generals.

James Clapper, Big Brother, and our demand for truth in politics.

Watching Walt's slow slide off the moral cliff might just inoculate us against what TV usually teaches.

Fewer sequels from Pixar, new members at the Academy, box office returns, and a documentary about the March on Washington.

Even if you agree with what this remake attempts to do, this was the wrong way to do it.

How marriage-happy churches are unwittingly fueling same-sex coupling—and leaving singles like me in the dust.

$15 million Seminary Ridge Museum opens with focus on "duty and devotion."

The short history of our blue-pink designations.