Lady Gaga is everywhere these days. Her current tour, The Monster’s Ball is so completely sold out that I recently saw a listing on Ticketmaster for tickets for a show in 2011.  No joke. Lady Gaga is known for being avant guarde, out spoken, artistic and opinionated so when she recently sat down for an interview with Larry King, I was surprised...

Mosab Yousef's book, Son of Hamas, is destined to create controversy. It's already doing so since its recent release, attracting the attention of major media all over the world. Yousef  recently gave interviews with diverse news outlets such as BBC News, Wall Street Journal, and even men's magazine GQ. Mosab is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef,...

A friend of mine (let's call her Jill) works in a library. As part of her responsibilities, she ran a summer program in the library for local teens, the theme of which was finding success in life. At the conclusion of the program, she invited her boyfriend (he's her fiancé now, let's call him John) to talk to the teens about how his Christian faith...

Although generating much less controversy (and interest in general) than Dan Brown's previous book-to-movie adaptation, The Da Vinci Code, has nevertheless again raised the often socially taboo topics of religion and faith for public discussion. The latest story Angels & Demons, starring Tom Hanks as the protagonist Robert Langdon, focuses...

Is there anyone who is more influential all over the world than Jesus Christ? Two thousand years ago, skeptical Thomas called him "My Lord and my God!" and today over two billion people today around the world call him the same. Who is Jesus? How and why did he become the most important person who ever lived? And why do we celebrate a man who died...

A casual observer would find it hard to call anything about the picture to the left "good". However, motivational speaker and author Carol Van Atta ponders the meaning of this seemingly strange holiday referred to as "Good Friday", the remembrance of Jesus' crucifixion on the Friday before Easter Sunday: It may seem a curious thing: People who claim...

A recent BBC "Have Your Say" question has generated hundreds of replies so far. This should come as little surprise, since it mentions two volatile issues: God and climate change. God will not intervene to prevent humanity from wreaking disastrous damage to the environment, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned. What's your reaction to this? The...