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March 17, 2019

On Saint Patrick’s Day: I'm grateful for this Irishman who changed the world

On this Saint Patrick’s Day, I’m grateful for the life of “Dagger John” – an articulate Irishman whose life and ministry stands as a model to those of us who feel a similar call to shape the world

March 17, 2019

What I wish I could tell the lost girl I was in college

I started a blog about a year ago detailing the ups and downs of my walk with Jesus.

March 17, 2019

What the college admissions scandal reveals about most families

If watching the college admissions scandal unfold makes you feel uneasy about young people’s adulting journeys, you’re not alone. Research studies and kitchen table conversations nationwide highlight that teenagers in the U.S. – both those applying to top-tier colleges as well as those making other educational and vocational decisions – face choices and challenges those of us over 30 didn’t encounter until our mid-20s.

March 16, 2019

THIS almost destroyed my marriage and almost destroyed my parenting, too

Everyone knows how to have conflict, but very few know how to resolve it.

March 16, 2019

Pastor: I was in a time of great pain and weakness. Here's what shocked me most

It is often in the very toughest of times and trials that God brings us to a crisis of faith, and it’s through that experience that God speaks to us and we begin to pray.

March 16, 2019

Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman prove to be the ultimate ‘lawnmower parents’

The latest college cheating scandal has already caught more than 50 adults red-handed, including coaches, test administrators, CEOs and Hollywood celebrities – not to mention embarrassing the heck out of elite universities like Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, USC and UCLA.

March 15, 2019

Message to AOC after New Zealand mosque attack: Prayers should be appreciated, not mocked

Offering prayers isn’t solely an NRA slogan — it is something hundreds of millions of people of all different faiths do and offer on a routine basis and especially when incomprehensible evil and tragedy occurs, like what we just saw in New Zealand. Prayers should be appreciated, not mocked — especially when the very people who were attacked are the praying kind of people.

March 15, 2019

Israeli Rabbinate slammed for pushing for DNA tests to prove Jewishness

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, which oversees marriage in the country, is under fire for allegedly quietly pressuring some Jewish people to undergo DNA testing to confirm couples are genetically Jewish as a condition for marriage registration.

March 15, 2019

Polish newspaper’s front page sparks outrage after it instructs ‘how to spot a Jew’

A right-wing newspaper in Poland sparked widespread criticism after running an anti-Semitic article on its front page instructing readers on “how to spot a Jew.”

March 15, 2019

Teach the Bible in public schools so that students can learn to better understand the world around them

Most of the recent discussions about teaching the Bible in school miss the key points.