Pope Francis celebrated families Saturday and urged them to shun "selfish" decisions that are indifferent to life as he closed out a big Vatican rally a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion.

Churches across the U.S. are tackling the big question of how to address homelessness in their communities with a small solution: tiny homes.

When it comes to being knowledgeable, it's not how much we know but how much we understand.

I guess it never really occurred to me until now that I should number these things, so, since three others have come before it through the years, this is officially installment No. 4.

Our mind is a garden.

It was an old boss of mine, a really sharp business owner, who taught me all about finances.

The new president of the Southern Baptist Convention said Wednesday he will accelerate sex abuse reforms in the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about how it seems that so many people are living in fear and discouragement when he mentioned something that really made me think.

When public morality is unhinged, Christians ought not lose hope.

As I write this column, it is the 78th anniversary of D-Day, and by the time my next one goes to press, it will be Father's Day. So please come along with me as we look at the XYers in general this week and then fathers in specific next week.

Bobi Gephart hadn't planned to go to church that Sunday — not to the worship service where the pastor intended to make a confession about the oppressive secret she had carried for so long.

How much grace does it take to love our enemies and those who have hurt us? Well, that's a good question.

The first Sunday of June 1997 at once seems like yesterday and like a thousand years ago. That was the date my wife and I and a couple in their 70s started the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Mooresboro, North Carolina. We had canvassed the area a few weeks ahead of time and, on our first service, had 27 people in attendance. We are now celebrating our 25-year anniversary, which normally leads me to quip, "I started the church when I was 9."

On the YouTube channel "Lutheran Satire," there's a video titled, "A Christian and a Feminist Almost Agree on Stuff."

Every year on the last Monday in May, we honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice with their lives in the line of active military service while protecting and defending the country they loved.

Mark 12:41-44 reads: "And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.'"

An Indiana pastor who confessed to "adultery" years ago with a teenager publicly informed his congregation last weekend after church leaders confronted him, the church said Tuesday.

A church-led development project to provide subsidized housing for area seniors moved forward Tuesday night with an initial vote to rezone land off North Moore Road.

The Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee — and thousands of its rank-and-file members — now have opportunities to address a scathing investigative report that says top SBC leaders stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over two decades while seeking to protect their own reputations.

With the entire world aflutter about Elon Musk potentially buying Twitter, my differently wired brain has been musing on what it would have been like for the most important being in all of history to be on it, namely Jesus himself. And so:

Many people today are struggling with the stress of everyday living and many feel lonely, depressed and sad.

My giddo (Lebanese for grandfather) was a documented genius, a history professor and had a photographic memory.

Many say they want a world without Christianity, but many secular thinkers are discovering they should be careful what they wish for