Christian Living

An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll measures the degree to which Americans think it’s important for political candidates to have strong religious beliefs. While the data is nuanced, the poll found that “just 25 percent of Americans say it’s very or extremely important that a candidate has strong …

I followed my father into a long law enforcement career. It’s not unusual to see kids follow their fathers into this profession; our agency has many multi-generational police families (although we are the only one with three generations of officers bearing the same name). I learned a lot about leadership …

I can still remember my first year as a Christian. Once I determined the gospels were telling me something reliable about Jesus and accepted Him as my Savior, I embarked on a journey to learn all I could about the Church and the Christian life. Several times along the way, …

The older I get, the more aware I am of my own mortality. While I still think of myself as the same person I was twenty-five years ago, my mirror seems to tell another story. I’ve discovered that my unchanging sense of “self” (despite what I see in the mirror) …

Fewer people celebrated Father’s Day than ever before, a fact that may have less to do with the nature of the holiday than it does with the nature of American families. A recent U.S. census found that the percentage of children living in single parent households increased from 12% in …

The Journal of Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS) recently released a study demonstrating that religious people live longer. The study observed that “self-reported religious service attendance has been linked with longevity,” and confirmed this by examining obituaries from 43 U.S. cities. Researchers found that religiously affiliated people lived between 5.64 …

The number of self-proclaimed Christians is shrinking in America. I’ve been collecting data on this trend for over ten years, and the surveys reveal an important truth: Fewer people claim a Christian affiliation than ever before, and those who claim no religious affiliation are the fastest growing group in America. …

A few years ago, I had the chance to hang out with my friend and fellow tent-making Christian case maker, Jacob Allee of Nail Mark Ministries and Community Christian Church. We were sharing our experiences as church leaders and youth pastors (I first met Jacob on one of our Utah …

Every Spring, millions of people graduate from colleges and universities across America, and most of them are under the age of 25. This year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, institutions of higher education are expected to award 1.0 million associate’s degrees, 1.9 million bachelor’s degrees, 790,000 master’s …

I was in the studio a few years ago with Frank Sontag for his KKLA radio program in Los Angeles. We were talking about Cold Case Christianity and the transformation I experienced when I first became a Christian. As an atheist, I embraced a moral code very similar to the …