(Atlanta) – New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush started the fashion among college football players of writing messages on their eye black patches, using the iconic “619” configuration to celebrate his San Diego area code while he was at the University of Southern California. But the only...

Well, that is what many people’s New Year Resolutions consist of: devotions and diets. I think procrastinators eagerly await a new year: they pander to their desires during the last month of the old year, claiming they will eat healthy, engage in exercise, and set aside a regular time each day for...

COLUMBIA — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the state not to produce or issue “I Believe” license plates approved by lawmakers, ruling the case is a “textbook example” of a constitutional prohibition of government endorsing a specific religion. Hours later, the president of a Columbia-based...

Diana Lynde, 20, recently returned to a junior year at Columbia College after a semester spent in Dortmund, Germany. Her current fields of study are communication, philosophy, and business administration, but they could easily change tomorrow. Favorite locations include moving trains, coffee shops,...

by John and Noel Piper God-centered worship is supremely important in the life of our church. We approach the Sunday morning worship hour with great seriousness and earnestness and expectancy. We try to banish all that is flippant or trivial or chatty. Not all services are this way. Sunday morning is...

The following is an excerpt from the On Faith section of the Washington Post. By Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck Here’s what Bono, Oprah, and the guru speakers on PBS won’t tell you: Jesus believed in organized religion and he founded an institution. Of course, Jesus had no patience for religious...

In a little more than three months I have a very significant birthday. The big 4-0 is on the way and it has generated some of those big life assessing conversations that everyone probably ought to have with themselves from time to time. I am a big proponent of birthdays. And especially having had...

I have been reading much about cathedrals lately. As a home schooling parent, I teach a segment of history each school year so that my children’s art, history, literature, music, writing, etc. all revolve around a specific time period. Right now, we are entrenched in the Middle Ages. Thus, the subject...