Journalists quoted people who knew the family and said that suspect James Holmes was once, as The Los Angeles Times noted, “heavily involved in their local Presbyterian church” in San Diego.

One thing is clear: Post-high school teens are leaving the church because they have failed to be nurtured and established in the faith through a Christ-centered, means-of-grace ministry.

When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) handed down a mandate requiring religious employers to cover contraceptive drugs in their health insurance plans, including drugs that cause abortion, Catholic institutions initially took center stage.

On June 3, Harbor Presbyterian Church (Chula Vista, Calif.) member Jacob Wukie, 26, learned that he would be heading to London in July to represent the U.S. on its Olympic archery team. Later, byFaith contributor Zoe S. Erler chatted with Wukie about his journey to Olympic recognition and how his faith influences his sport. How…

Since late 2011, Prattville Health and Rehabilitation in Prattville, Ala., almost 15 miles outside Montgomery, has housed one of the region’s great treasures. Marguerite McKinnon cannot speak well, an effect of the strokes that landed her in a physical rehabilitation facility. Even if she could, the octogenarian would never tell how she has served as…

Our justice system can hold people accountable for their actions, but it cannot bring complete recompense to the victims.

Is another guiding principle really the answer to the bleak disposition that most pastors face? No. They need brothers who will fight for them.

After college, Dan Herron (MDiv ’11) went on staff with Great Commission Ministries (GCM) at the University of Illinois for five years. When it became clear that a lifetime of vocational ministry lay ahead, he pursued and eventually finished his Master of Divinity at Covenant Theological Seminary. He was approved for a church-planting position and…

If reviving a parish model of church ministry is the goal, perhaps there is no greater testing ground than in the gritty exuberance of post-Katrina New Orleans

We should note the Scripture’s use of the word “fear” in two distinct senses. There is the fear of terror and dread, and the fear of veneration and honor.