The world stood transfixed in the wake of a carefully planned series of hijackings that destroyed the World Trade Center, crippled the Pentagon and took the lives of more than 5,000 men, women and children. On a sunny September morning, the world dramatically changed. What is the long-term significance?
Editorial note from Scott Ashley
Throughout the course of history, rule over the Holy Land has often changed hands, the inhabitants being at times autonomous but usually subject to some great regional power.
In Jesus Christ's best-known prophecy, He spoke of a coming "abomination of desolation" in Jerusalem. What does this mean? In this prophecy, the past helps us understand the future.
Deeply entrenched religious issues are at the heart of the war on terrorism. They are inflamed by a power greater than either the worldwide terrorist network or the combined military might of the United States, Britain, the rest of NATO and Russia. You need to understand what that power is.
As we see the world aligning itself along political, ethnic and religious lines, the West's obsession with political correctness hides sobering realities most would rather not think about. Such shortsightedness could prove dangerous if not fatal.
What's behind Islamic religious extremists' war against the West?
In an age of ever-increasing violence and horrifying acts of terrorism, bewildered people ask: Where is God? Why did the Almighty not intervene and prevent the outrages of Sept. 11?
A fictional boy named Harry Potter has taken the literary world by storm. Youngsters are reading his books by the millions. The fictional young wizard appears to have bewitched a generation. Do parents see the entire picture?
In the wake of the New York and Washington, D.C., suicide bombings, we need to find a plain answer to this great question.
The Bible makes the remarkable claim of being the inspired Word of God, the divine instruction for men, women and children everywhere. Shouldn’t we learn what it has to say?
Here are some tips for figuring out how to dig into God's word.
We know His name. But what does the title "Christ" mean? What did it signify to Jesus' contemporaries? What expectations did it invoke? Did Jesus of Nazareth meet them, and was He truly the Christ?
The biggest currency experiment in history has begun: The euro is now the official common currency of 12 European nations: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.
According to a government-funded study of sexual habits in Britain, the average age at which British teenagers first have intimate relations is 16, the lowest level ever recorded.
A feature article in USA Today, quoting a recognized authority, catches one's eye.
The European Union (EU) constitutes a huge bureaucracy, much of it based in Brussels.
"Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?" So asked Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), U.S. president during World War I.
