Dreams, visions, and healings spur new disciples among the 10-12 million Roma in Europe. A shivering 15-year-old, Biljana Nikolić, stood shielding her one-month-old on a street corner in Serbia as a fierce thunderstorm whipped through town. Biljana leaned against a house to steady herself against the wind. She was fleeing her abusive second husband, and this […]

Reconciling original sin and death of the innocent. The greatest miracle of the Incarnation is not that God visited us—as Creator, he has every right to enter his creation. All through the Hebrew Bible, we find God intervening in the affairs of our planet. The greatest miracle of the Incarnation is that this Creator chose to come to us as a baby. The One who […]

Chris Anderson, longtime editor of Wired magazine, makes the jump from high-tech to physical objects. Why we should follow him. In a storefront in Manhattan's NoHo neighborhood, a row of matte-black, LED-lit machines are tracing out the future from spools of colored filament. The machines are 3-D printing what appear to be plastic bracelets, but which c […]

Why we should be concerned that women remain outnumbered in theological education. In the last several years, news outlets have drawn attention to a major cultural shift on college campuses: For the first time in our nation's history, the majority of university students are female. This gender revolution gained attention after the 2010 U.S. Census found […]

How marriages can survive deployment—with some help from the church. We military wives are proud people, with our camo-print purses, yellow ribbon bumper stickers, and a deep love for our husbands and country. We bristle when warned how military life can deplete a marriage. We'll tell you that our marriages are only strengthened by the moves, distance, […]

Shannon Polson sought healing from her father's death by retracing his fatal journey into the Alaskan wilderness. Before we begin, grab a map. Preferably the paper kind; the old atlas that's been on your shelf for years or the AAA guidebooks your grandmother gave to you. Google Maps will do, in a pinch. Flip to Alaska. Now look up—up, up, higher up […]

Examining the lies that sex is worth nothing or sex is worth everything. Turns out, college isn't as hard to pay for as I previously thought. At least, not if you're a woman and willing to get, shall we say, "creative." According to CNBC, there are plenty of rich dirty old men ("Sugar Daddies") willing to put broke young women ( […]

Or was it his inaugural address? There's a difference. The Sunday after President Obama delivered his second inaugural address, my pastor preached on Luke 4:14–21, the story of Jesus' reading from the Isaiah scroll in his hometown synagogue. After reading about God anointing a prophet to preach good news to the poor, bring release to the captives, […]

Two new books locate Christians' presence in cities, but only one of them actually engages the city. "The city," says Harvard economist Edward Glaeser, "is humanity's greatest invention." Not everybody agrees with Glaeser's glowing assessment, but judging by recent population trends, most do. Every day 180,000 people move i […]

A woman's take on the New Radicals. In college, my philosophy professor used to talk with affection about how his wife "schooled" him when they were first married. After hearing a Christian speaker on campus, he came home inspired and shared with his wife the speaker's message: that life was all about big moments, and all the in-between s […]