In China, freer markets have done little to free people. And our buying habits may be part of the problem.

What motivated most people on the Main Street end of the economic spectrum to use their mushrooming home equity as collateral to open huge lines of credit, buy products they couldn’t afford, and take on debt they couldn’t repay? The answer is greed, and it has nothing to do with Wall Street.

The North Korean government recently allowed a pair of American criminals to speak to Western media. Jeffrey Fowle, who has been held in Pyongyang since May, worries that his children in Ohio “might be out on the street,” adding: “If this goes beyond the end of September, then I’m in grave danger of losing my…

Between Christ’s birth and 1914, Christianity grew into a sizable 30 percent of the Middle East’s population. Today, Christians account for just 3 percent of the region’s population.

Drones have killed some bad people in recent years: Libyan tyrant Moammar Gadhafi, al-Qaida’s Anwar al-Awlaki, terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan — all without putting their operators in harm’s way.

Several weeks ago, amid the latest battle over government spending, U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black offered a short, simple, and perfectly apt prayer for our divided nation: “Lord, deliver us from governing by crisis.”

We cannot defeat this last enemy–no matter how many vitamins we take, miles we run, Big Macs we avoid–but Christ can. Indeed Christ already has.

Virtually everyone agrees that Syria is a humanitarian and geopolitical mess. What’s open to debate is what, if anything, the United States should do about it.

A society that devalues human life and then airbrushes God out of public view is brewing a toxic mix.

Despite demographic trends, the Lord tells us that children are a blessing.