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This is a nice Christmas story . Quadruplets in Connecticut become the first quads to be admitted to Yale University. The Crouches’ perfect...

At least it makes you say crazy stuff. Three cases in point: Rush Limbaugh: ".. Limbaugh said, “Black unemployment is terrible. The bl...

Well, first, the good news. Our brother Al Mohler reviews an interesting piece from Jennifer Senior in New York magazine entitled " T...

Yesterday I linked to a video from Mark Dever commending The Trellis and the Vine as "the best book on the nature of church ministry...

Mockingbird has interesting and encouraging short post about a somewhat unusual species... an athlete, singer, movie star, politician who li...

Al Mohler comments on a story about churches who are having special services for people and their pets. I've long heard of Roman Catho...

We should despise stereotype, slander, and prejudice wherever we find it. I hesitate to post this only because I don't want more people...

MSNBC reports that the NIV and TNIV are to get a facelift . A major updating with "everything on the table" regarding gender revi...

In pastoral ministry, you get exposed to a little bit of everything. We learned yesterday that one of the students in our elementary school ...

the potential "resurrection" of Henry Lyons inside the National Baptist Convention, the largest African-American denomination in t...

HT: Ray Ortlund, Jr . Good morning America featured a story about a pastor in New England who faces the town's disdain for living out t...

One of the deans of African-American social and historical studies, John Hope Franklin died on March 25th. He was 94. For those not aware of...

Seven quick reasons: 1. I'm not so sure that the "new Calvinism" is all that "new." This post is helpful in explain...

This is an overdue 'thank you' to the many, many of you around the world who prayed for our recent ministry efforts in the Middle Ea...

A number of fellow bloggers have shared the news that Good Book Company is launching operations in the U.S. That's good news for those w...

Healthy octuplets born in 5 minutes to a California woman. The eight one was a surprise. A 7 feet 3 inches tall 12 year old boy who can...

This is too bizarre to pass up. A couple recently exchanged wedding vows in a Taco Bell. The first two lines of the story are downright hila...

No, this is not a post featuring 2008 first time events, it's a list of firsts that occured in 2008. I know my posts are long, but not t...

Trivia question: Who is the longest tenured African-American in the White House? A touching story from the Washington Post gives the answer...

When history was made with the election of America's first African-American president? I was in an elders' meeting until about 11:45...