In this March 28, 2011 file photo, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee gestures as he addresses students at the business school at Mississippi College in Clinton, Miss. (Rogelio V. Solis, file, Associated Press) Read More

A mere five words ignited the showdown:

“We don’t work on Sundays.”

On one side of the table in the worksite trailer sat Firoz “King” Husein, owner and founder of Span Construction & Engineering, a company that specializes in the engineering and construction of large steel buildings. Read More

Across the world, people have varying levels of belief (and disbelief) in God, with some nations being more devout than others. Read More

Some great archival footage just released from BBC on Tolkien that was first aired in 1968.This is an episode from BBC’s series “In Their Own Words British Authors”. Official synopsis: Read More

Confession: A Roman Catholic App has been downloaded more than 100,000 times since the aide to Roman Catholic confessions was released a year ago, according to co-founder Patrick Leinen.

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According to the biblical account, the Israelites practiced idolatry during Moses’ absence by worshipping a golden calf.

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Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups in a 32-question survey of religious knowledge by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

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Years ago my patient Joe brought me a photograph of a remarkable scene he had painted illustrating a vision that came as he lay close to death in the ICU. At the foot of his bed Satan and Jesus battled for Joe’s soul. Jesus won and Joe was saved.

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Long-unrecognized lettering confirms that first-century artifacts found within an ancient Jerusalem tomb are the earliest representations of Christianity ever found, researchers say. Read More

By Philip Moeller, for U.S. News
Choral singing is great for health: It engages people mentally and physically. There is also a strong social networking benefit of a shared activity that is often emotionally uplifting. Read More

In a world of smart phones, text messages, Facebook, and e-dating, many are creating virtual relationships which mask a person’s true identity in an attempt to protect themselves from the reality of real relationship.

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Clive Staples Lewis was unapologetically a Christian apologist. His conviction enlivens his fiction, including his seven novels for children. In “The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia,” Laura Miller explores her responses to “The Chronicles of Narnia” as a child enthusiast, a maturing apostate and an adult critic. In her unfolding relationship to Narnia, she recognizes “the desire to be carried away by something greater than ourselves — a love affair, a group, a movement, a nation, a faith. Or even a book.” Read More

By LEV GROSSMAN – I haven’t come across a whole ton of quality writing about C.S. Lewis. Some of it over-focuses on the Christian angle, pro and con, and a lot more of it is kind of fannish, which isn’t a huge problem for me because I’m a fan, but still. Sometimes you want fandom, sometimes you want hard flinty literary analysis. Read More

AT 32, one of my clients (I’ll call her Jennifer) had a lavish wine-country wedding. By then, Jennifer and her boyfriend had lived together for more than four years. The event was attended by the couple’s friends, families and two dogs.

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By Sherwood Eliot Wirt – Decision magazine, May 1963
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND – I drove to Cambridge, England, on May 7 [1963] to interview Mr. Clive Staples Lewis, author of The Screwtape Letters and one of the world’s most brilliant and widely read Christian authors. I hoped to learn from him how young men and women could be encouraged to take up the defense of the faith through the written word.

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