Michael Foust

The word ?hymn? usually doesn't lead to thoughts of ?modern,? but modern hymn-writers Keith and Kristyn Getty are trying to change that. That doesn't mean they want churches to stop singing the old hymns ? just the opposite ?... Continue Reading »

>Only 46 percent of children in the United States will reach age 17 having grown up in a home with biological parents who are married -- a figure that has a significant impact on the nation"s graduation, poverty and... Continue Reading »

Led by such American staples as AT&T, Kellogg and Coca-Cola, a record number of businesses -- 337 in all -- achieved a perfect score in 2011 for their policies affirming homosexuality.... Continue Reading »

Geron, which launched the first FDA-approved embryonic stem cell trial in 2010 with much fanfare, said Nov. 14 it will stop funding its stem cell trials and move that money to cancer research, a move it said is necessary... Continue Reading »

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it would review in March the constitutionality of President Obama"s landmark national health care law, setting aside five and a half hours of oral arguments in what promises to be a dramatic... Continue Reading »

>A Democratic-controlled Senate committee passed a bill Thursday that would overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, marking the first time that a committee in either chamber of Congress had acted to reverse the 1996 law that gives states the... Continue Reading »

>One day before citizens in Mississippi go to the polls, a new survey indicates a dead heat in a ballot initiative that would make the state the first to amend its constitution to define all human life as beginning... Continue Reading »

After suffering disappointing losses in Colorado in 2008 and 2010, the pro-life community"s young personhood movement is on the verge of what would be a landmark victory in Mississippi to define all human life as beginning at conception.... Continue Reading »

That doesn"t mean they want churches to stop singing the old hymns -- just the opposite -- but they do want churches to see that modern songs can have a similar lyrical depth.... Continue Reading »

Evangelical leaders Jim Wallis and R. Albert Mohler Jr., in a debate over the church"s role in social justice, agreed that Christians have a duty to care for the poor but disagreed whether that task is part of the... Continue Reading »

Teens exposed to profanity in television and video games are more likely to use profanity and also to exhibit physically aggressive behavior, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics.... Continue Reading »

A major seven-year study published in a mainstream journal is challenging the secular notion that gays and lesbians cannot change their sexual orientation.... Continue Reading »