About 10 years ago Eric Foley, the co-founder of Seoul USA, asked a member of the underground church how he could pray for them. He recalls the North Korean’s response, “You, pray for us? We pray for you … because South Korean and American churches believe challenges in the Christian faith are solved by money, freedom, and politics. It’s only when all you have is God do you realize God is all you need.”

In a case that could determine restrictions on expressions of faith in the public square, the Supreme Court on Wednesday (Nov. 6) will consider religious prayers that convene government meetings. At issue in Greece v. Galloway is whether such invocations pass constitutional muster, even when government officials are not purposefully proselytizing or discriminating.

From the “Radio Bible Study Hour” to “Changed Lives,” against the turbulent backdrop of Woodstock, assassinations, “God is dead” movements, campus protests, and Watergate, his familiar voice and image on Sunday nights across America became the soundtrack and video for collective generations. He was a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America. Yet most in…

Haden — who didn’t want to wait until death to experience abundant life — passed away early Thursday morning, Oct. 24.

Since the birth of the Christian-conservative political movement in the late 1970s, no evangelical group has delivered more punch in America’s culture wars than the Southern Baptist Convention and its nearly 16 million members. Today, after more than three decades of activism, many in the religious right are stepping back from the front lines. Mr. Moore, a 42-year-old political independent and theologian who heads the convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, says it is time to tone down the rhetoric and pull back from the political fray

(From the Times Free Press) — Ben Haden, longtime pastor of First Presbyterian Church, died today at the age of 88. The law school graduate, Central Intelligence Agency security operative and newspaper executive served the church from 1967 to 1999. Haden also was the founder and speaker on the Chattanooga-based “Changed Lives” ministry, which broadcast…

Every year, men complete their seminary training and embark upon what they expect to be a lifetime of ministry in the church.

This month, The Francis Schaeffer Institute at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis will present “Heaven in a Nightclub,” an exploration of the Gospel that traces the spiritual roots of jazz music.

Men and women approaching retirement look forward to making the most of the years ahead. A new venture intends to meet all those goals and more: Brow Wood, a master-planned community atop Lookout Mountain. “Brow Wood isn’t a retirement community,” says Dr. Frank Brock, who led the team that launched this senior-living concept. “We are looking…

Suffering. Is there a more perennially and painfully relevant topic? Countless books address the subject—and countless sufferers read them.