The Best Agriculture Handbook
30. November 2016
Gina Sheets was a high-level agricultural official in the Indiana state government. Husband Travis Sheets was a farmer in Clinton County and a member ...
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Christ and the Regulative Principle
01. November 2011
The second commandment centers on worship. “You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth ...
Institute Trains Future Journalists
01. May 2011
How long should we keep praying before it is time to give up? If God doesn’t seem to say yes within a year, should we change our prayer request? or ...
The Sin of Spin
01. February 2011
We were in Colorado Springs, Colo. Stopping at a red light, we stared at the sticker on the car bumper in front of us. It asked this simple question: ...
Banking in Jesus’ Stead
01. November 2010
Robert R. Lavelle was a Reformed Presbyterian in heart. The poverty-fighting Pittsburgh banker died at age 95 on July 4. He kept his membership in a ...
Transforming ‘Dodge City’ for God’s Glory
01. July 2010
On education, the bad news grabs most of the headlines. Schools are failing. Students don’t know elementary civics questions. They can’t write a ...
The Last Best Hope
01. June 2010
Bill Bennett thinks America is a great country, with an exciting and exceptional story. In the academic world, that makes him almost as controversial ...
Grumpy Young Men (Part I)
01. May 2010
There’s something rotten in the RP church, and it might be me. Let me explain. Recently, I became convinced that the Reformed church is suffering ...
Don’t Despise the Day of Small Things (Zech. 4:10)
01. April 2010
It seems like a thankless task when teachers face broken families or indifferent parents. But the life of Bill Hull shows the difference made by a ...
The Positive Side of “Thou Shalt Not”
01. February 2010
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So said Isaac Newton in his third law of motion. When air is compressed by the fans in a ...
Temperance and Prohibition: One of Them Worked
29. September 2009
Historian Jason Lantzer has defied the odds. He’s authored a doctoral thesis, and it is readable, academically sound and pertinent to current ...
Lessons of Life and Death
11. March 2009
Last election day the pro-life movement faced its worst political setback since Bill Clinton’s 1992 victory. Barack Obama favors partial birth ...
Former Senators as Presidents
08. October 2008
Governors make better presidents. U.S. senators don’t do so well in the highest political office, most of the time. This theory can work for ...
Two Unlikely Candidates and the Cultural Shift
09. September 2008
Shelby Steele thinks that Barack Obama needs to figure out who he really is. In contrast, a cross-cultural researcher and author, Ruth Van Reken, ...
Spiritual Disciplines, in Grace
08. July 2008
My pastor gave me a profound lesson recently. I find it helpful to have Rich Johnston (pastor, Second RPC in Indianapolis, Ind.) review my Bible study ...
A Kingdom Not of This World
08. October 2007
Colliding Kingdoms In 1596 James Melville, a leader of the Scottish Kirk, declared that King James VI of Scotland “was God’s silly vassal and ...
David and the Gambling Goliath
01. May 2007
Although he’s past traditional retirement age, Tom Grey plans to keep fighting the expansion of legal gambling. At 66, Grey is both a Vietnam ...
Direct Donations May Change Education, Welfare
01. February 2007
For $454 you can help a class of elementary students in North Carolina improve their spelling. In an impoverished area of Chicago, a $406 gift will ...
An Interesting Union of Church and State
01. January 2007
Even the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) might endorse some of the following church-state partnerships. In Boston, police and pastors together ...
Hard-Fought Wars, Hard-Fought Policies
01. November 2006
When White House officials compare George Bush to Harry Truman, they hope history will give comfort that is missing in the popularity polls. Bush ...