Brad does it. Leonardo does it. Oprah does it. Bono practically started it in this generation. Celebrity philanthropy seems to be gaining more and more momentum. It’s not hard to envy their wallets, huge spheres of influence and the stamps in their passports, and be left feeling inadequate, not sure if our voice will ever be loud enough to really...

"Three fast-food workers were found shot to death Wednesday…." "An explosion caused by a leaking propane tank leveled a house, killing a woman…." "A young actor…was found dead in a hotel…." "A former long-haul trucker was executed by injection Wednesday for raping and stabbing three women…." "One body was discovered Wednesday...

As a young woman, I am discovering what a great privilege it is to be called just that. We, as women, have been beautifully and specially created in God’s image. This means that we reflect several of His characteristics – love and caring, strength and compassion, justice and peace, to name a few. Many women I have met, no matter what their nationality,...

Happy with your grocery bills these days?  Do those gasoline pump meters seem to whir like Vegas slot machines, except you never hit the jackpot? The two issues are not unrelated and they’re affecting pocketbooks and bellies at home and around the globe.  Some Westerners might react with detached shock to stories of food riots in places like...

Want happiness and fulfillment in life? Then practice giving, advises an influential medical professor. “It really is good to be good,” claims Stephen Post, Ph.D., professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. “Science says it is so.” Post and coauthor Jill Neimark present evidence in their recent book, Why Good Things...

In the wake of the horror and suffering of the recent terrorist attacks on Manhattan and the Pentagon, and recently the attacks on London, it has been heartwarming to see so many acts of heroism, beginning with the men and women who met a hellish death as they raced up the stairs of the World Trade Center to save lives. Thousands of volunteers, lavish...

“The waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed me. . . This God—his way is perfect” (2 Samuel 22:5, 31). After the loss of his ten children owing to a “natural disaster” (Job 1:19), Job said, “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). At the end of the book, the...