Breakpoint

The Vatican has renewed its 2018 arrangement with Beijing. Critics continue to warn that it's a recipe for disaster.

Salvation won't arrive on Air Force One, and a perfect world won't come through the ballot box. But a better world is possible if all our actions, political and otherwise, flow downstream from our Christian convictions, and not the other way around.

Beneath all of this is a worldview that sees reproduction as primarily about "production." Missing is not only the word, but the framework that comes with seeing the making of human life as "procreation," or as the word implies, that human life is created.

Many Christians bravely fought against changing the legal definition of marriage. Today, 10 years later, we must not stop fighting for children, who have a God-given right to their mother and their father.

Just like an ideology that affirms everything, a flag that affirms everyone's ideas about gender and the body ends in self-parody and as a source of headaches.

Morality, and its absence, is contagious, especially from one generation to the next. After all, families are the place we first learn to trust and to be trustworthy.

Amazon doesn't sell what kids need most: our love, our time, and our commitment to raising them in the Lord and teaching them what's true. Give these gifts, and it won't matter how much you spend on a stroller.

In Truth Changes Everything, Jeff Myers' skill to teach through stories is on full display. Ultimately, he demonstrates that these amazing stories happened because of what is true about the world and how followers of Christ oriented their lives to that truth.

Stories of the faithful who have gone before offer a perspective for our own life and faith that we cannot get anywhere else.

Sure, go ahead and let the kids dress up like Batman and hit up your neighbors for candy. But when the hoopla of modern Halloween is over, encourage your kids to imitate some real heroes—not in what they put on, but in how they live their lives.

That was Chuck Colson, from October 31, 2007, describing the rich history behind All Saints' Day.