A church in an upscale Phoenix neighborhood will be going to federal court because of a program they have that feeds homeless people every Saturday morning.  According to the USA Today, the city of Phoenix told CrossRoads United Methodist Church to stop the breakfast because it violates zoning laws.  Neighbors complain that the homeless people [...]

As many of you know, James Dobson retired from his Focus on the Family radio show last week.
Honestly, I’ve never been a huge fan but it’s all mainly for how political he became, which is really a shame because there are good ministry programs coming from Focus on the Family.  Matthew Paul Turner wrote a [...]

We’ve got ourselves a little trend here at Think Christian.  We have another guest blogger who we really liked and asked to be a part of  our team of contributors.  So help me welcome Amy Adair.  I think she’s a great writer with an interesting perspective.  Here’s what she said about herself:
Amy lives in Lombard, [...]

I had a good discussion with my students a few weeks ago after we read Jonathan Edwards’ classic sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”  If you haven’t read the sermon in a while, you might remember the feeling of simultaneous boredom and terror from being assigned the reading in high school or [...]

After watching last season’s Lost finale a couple times, the opening conversation between Jacob and his unnamed nemesis have begun to remind me of the Book of Job. ThinkChristian blogger Jerod Clark wrote last year about how these figures seem like God (Jacob) and Satan (Man in Black). And when they vaguely reference a long-standing [...]

The latest filmmaker to have a go at depicting heaven is Peter Jackson, with “The Lovely Bones.”
Jackson would seem to be better suited to such a challenge than most. He specialized in fantastic visions with the “Lord of the Rings” series and had his breakthrough with the independent crime fantasy “Heavenly Creatures.” In other words, [...]

A young man asked a girl’s father for his daughter’s hand in marriage. I know the father and the questions he asked the young man come as no surprise to me.
1.     Have you prayed about this? What has God said? How do you know?
2.     Of all the girls in the world, why our daughter?
3.     Tell [...]

As you enjoy a holiday weekend, consider how nice it would be to have a three-day weekend every week. It may sound like a dream but it’s become reality for state government employees in Utah. The state has saved $1.8 million and 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the past year [...]

Malcolm Gladwell’s recent article in the New Yorker argues that Wall Street’s recent meltdown may not have been due to a lack of regulation or a lack of information, but a surplus of overconfidence. He looks at the pros and cons of overconfidence for world affairs and economics, and concludes:
From an individual perspective, it is [...]