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Sami Awad's vocation is to tear down walls in the Middle East. As executive director of the Holy Land Trust, based in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Awad works [...]

JOSHUA HOPPING of Sweet, Idaho, helped put George W. Bush in the White House, and four years later helped keep him there. As an evangelical Christian, Hopping was part of [...]

WHEN CHARLES FINNEY PREACHED, people listened. Finney, considered one of America's greatest evangelists of the 19th century and a leader known as the 'Second Great Awakening,' drew enthusiastic crowds at [...]

BROTHER ANDREW is anything but politically correct. The Dutch-born evangelist, in this age of carefully nuanced interfaith dialogue, unapologetically preaches the Christian gospel, especially to Muslims. And yet, despite what [...]

Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism, by David Cortright. Paradigm Publishers. How would Mahatma Gandhi confront terrorism today? And what action would the apostle of nonviolence take [...]

Moral principles, not politics, guide the bishops. White smoke blowing in the Vatican may indicate a new pope, but the U.S. Catholic bishops don't seem to care which way the [...]

The Broetjes had a crazy idea--to treat their workers like people. When Ralph Broetje was 15, he had what he calls a 'wild vision.' He saw himself someday owning a [...]

The current debate about trade with China is a perfect illustration of the double standards (and double talk) that permeate U.S. foreign policy. The Clinton administration wants to end the [...]

TIPITAPA, Nicaragua--Cesar Augusto Mejia has given up on politicians. Decades of war, incompetence, and corruption--on the Right and Left--tends to sour a person on politics. For many Nicaraguans, it hasn't [...]

Food and much more--for the poor. In the weeks after Hurricane Mitch roared through Central America, people around the world pitched in. Tons of supplies--and many volunteers--poured in to Honduras, [...]

Last year's announcement by 86 evangelical leaders that they had joined the battle against global warming was more than just another church statement destined to gather dust on ecclesial library [...]

The recent trend in Middle East wars is that they are short, brutish, and nasty--and they accomplish little of the ostensible goals for either side. Israel's shock-and-awe campaign this winter--aimed [...]

Should Christians dialogue with Muslims? Some prominent conservative Christians approach such a question with deep suspicion, if not downright opposition. For example, Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, [...]

The outbreak of renewed violence this summer in the Middle East carried with it a sense of tragic inevitability. Even among many people strongly committed to peacemaking, bloodshed in the [...]

Palestinian theologian Naim Ateek was asked recently if there was any hope for a nonviolent solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Ateek, who is profiled in this issue, [...]

The passing of Ronald Reagan in June brought an outpouring of lavish praise for our 40th president. Much of it, however, wasn't motivated by Christian charity or a polite refusal [...]

The violent overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in late February should be cause of great concern--not because Aristide was any longer a friend of the poor or a bright [...]

Remember 'Tweedledee and Tweedledum'? Four years ago, there was much talk about how the two candidates for president--Messrs. Gore and Bush--differed little on issues of importance, and as a result [...]

If all you knew about modern American politics you learned from the recent debate on vouchers, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the issue conservatives really, really care about these [...]

Among the many sad notes that have been played in regard to the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal, here's one that points to the depth of the church's disgrace: Various [...]