A few years ago, I discovered crowdfunding websites, and I’ll admit, I thought they were…
My neighbors were evicted yesterday. I came home to find their worldly belongings—a couple of…
If you are like most Americans, you’re well into your Christmas shopping, but as you…
Once upon a time, people used to shop in preparation for two different seasons: Spring/Summer…
The story I’m most struck by in the Bible is the one of the woman…
My freshman year of college, I remember lying on the couch Skyping someone on my…
It is estimated that over 1.5 million people from the United States participate in short-term…
Volunteering and serving others is a significant part of living intentionally and trying to make…
If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that Americans have a lot…
My husband and I run a charity that fights human trafficking. A few years ago…
Have you ever noticed that your greatest need can produce your greatest vulnerability? It seems…
Should you sponsor a child? Donate your old clothes? Get involved with activism? Go on…
The wisdom and insights King gained as he helped lead the civil rights movement apply to us today, for injustice still exists among us in many forms and in many places.
There is a heartening development within the mainstream Church of late: people are starting to…
Perhaps you remember the horror of the 2013 Bangladesh garment factory collapse, or maybe you…
If the myriad of tragic events over the last few years has done anything for…
The single largest question I get when talking to people about modern slavery is this:…
Haven’t bought a gift for Father’s Day yet? Want to get your pops something different…
Too often, when issues of sexual abuse come up, the Church simply stays silent. But…
Last weekend, citizens of Buffalo, New York; Laguna Woods, California; and Houston, Texas, faced attacks…
We cage things we don’t understand. We take away names, replace them for numbers and…
Across this country, it seems everyone is up in arms about immigrants and refugees. Mostly,…
I can’t pinpoint the exact moment when I realized that being sensitive to the hurts…
In her book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, author Jen Hatmaker mentions this tweet…
I live in a cool college town of 150,000 known for its bike paths and…
The moral arguments against pornography are well-known, and recently, several big-name celebrities and sources like…
Late Thursday, Brandon Bernard was executed for his role in a double murder that took…
It’s impossible to quickly sum up all Nelson Mandela’s accomplishments and influence—both in his home…
On the convergence of the presidential inauguration and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, many will celebrate—deservedly—the long way we’ve come from Dr. King’s campaign for civil rights to the inauguration of our nation’s first black president for his second term. But have we come far enough?
Editor’s note: The story first ran last October. The past few weeks, we’ve seen real…
Editor’s Note: This piece originally ran in 2014, but as “Fortune” has noted, child labor…
Seventy-five years ago, Otto and Edith Frank realized they couldn’t take any more chances. Nazi…
Nigeria’s Army has been able to stem the advances and growth of terrorist group Boko…
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