Filled with familiar Nicholas Sparks plot lines, The Last Song offers safe, sweet entertainment. Plus: Interview with Sparks and Miley Cyrus.

A non-Luddite asks how media saturation shapes our minds and hearts.

John Piper takes an eight-month leave of absence.

Screenwriter Nicholas Sparks and Miley Cyrus, breaking out of her Hannah Montana mold, discuss their drama, The Last Song, opening in theaters this week.

After more than three decades in the business, Amy Grant has lived life's highs and lows and everything in between. She chronicles the journey on her new album.

Celebrating the Passover meal prepares Christians for Easter.

Clinton Danner's arrest raises questions about Craigslist's culpability in sex trafficking—and about the church's response to criminal offenders.

The latest from Dreamworks Animation is an overly familiar story of a boy and his "dog," but it absolutely thrills with its 3D visuals and fast-paced flying sequences.

Noah Baumbach's latest has all of his signature snap and crackle, but with a little more sunshine and a little less spite.

The Ivy League school's six suicides in six months serve to remind us of the people in our networks who are struggling privately.

Why pro-life Protestants don't say much about the Annunciation—or the unborn Jesus.

Christian colleges likely won't let men and women room together anytime soon. Will they teach men and women how to be friends?

The posts that got readers talking over the past month.

A recent in vitro fertilization 'raffle' in London entices British women with an unregulated American fertility market. But it's too easy to dismiss that market as a money-grubbing enterprise.

Master producer and musician Aaron Sprinkle talks about his work, including his latest album with Fair—and how making an album is a revealing process.

Groups say executive order is not enough, and will campaign against the Michigan Democrat they had promised to support.

'Raised With Christ' highlights the neglected central event of our faith.

After Congress's health care vote, activists see a revival of interest in immigration reform.

While warning of a 'perversion of the gospel,' the radio commentator mangles recent American religious history.

Dennis Quaid and AnnaSophia Robb jumped at the chance to play parts in Soul Surfer, the true-story movie about Bethany Hamilton, who lost an arm to a shark attack.

My love of reading has too often become another way to stay busy rather than practice 'holy leisure.'

One difference between the therapeutic gospel and the liberating gospel.

Following Jesus' example in John 9, I want to see beyond 'the problem' when I encounter people with disabilities.

But if we are to choose a social issue for March 17, what would it be?

Protecting the least among us in health care reform.

The trend toward locally grown, naturally raised food is giving some women more fulfilling lives than the workplace ever did.

Do secular feminists really want men to stop showing courtesy?

Though it says some good things about love, the comedy of two families planning a wedding is rarely clever and mostly hollow.

The Bourne Locker? Not quite, but Matt Damon, Bourne director Paul Greengrass and Hurt Locker cinematographer Barry Ackroyd team up in Iraq to hunt for WMDs—or the people responsible for the futile search.

The former solicitor general of the United States explains his vision for the Christian university.

The controversial Georgia ad implies that, like endangered species, black children should be protected up until they're born.

The President looks to seven men and women to shape policy, tend his soul.

First-time novelist Kathryn Stockett's 'The Help' uses compelling narrative to illustrate the power of truth telling.

The frequent question assumes that adoption is both easy and morally superior.

God promises to forget our sins. Google, not so much.

But is it the best or worst of times for doctrine?

Pope Benedict and Muslim scholars have warned that the scanner—slated for major U.S. airports—violate principles of human dignity and chastity.

Tense—and intense—story about cops, criminals, and the very fine line between right and dead wrong.

A grown-up Alice returns to Wonderland, where she is destined to battle the Jabberwocky and restore the White Queen's crown. But overall, the movie's a dud.

It depends on how you view them.

What to do when you find yourself praying to the quid pro quo god.

New studies are finding that terminal cancer patients do better when doctors and medical staff are spiritually supportive.

Christian leaders get sneak peek of next Narnia movie, like what they see; filmmakers admit "mistakes" on Prince Caspian, vow to get it right this time.

The First Lady has been criticized for mentioning her daughters' weight to launch the 'Let's Move!' campaign.

Most of the personal care products you use every day are damaging your health, argues Samuel Epstein in 'Toxic Beauty'.