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As summer begins, as the weather warms and we start spending more time outside, I would like to offer a recipe for ...

“The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” has sparked discourse around cultural representation of Utah and the Mormon faith. The ...

Worship has to do with ascribing to the Lord worth or value. It aligns with the first commandment: to love the Lord your God ...

A seismic shift from literacy to digital orality may be the biggest threat to evangelical Christianity in our times.

It turns out, gossip isn't petty; it's deeply human and culturally vital, just ask 'Normal Gossip' podcast host, journalist ...

Richard Jere is the toast of Facebook for his act of offering his jacket to a freezing pupil. His actions proved that ...

I don't know what kind of shape your marriage is in as you read these words. Maybe it’s great. Strong and vibrant. I hope so.

Ron Sachs founded the Best & Brightest awards ceremony twenty years ago to highlight local high school seniors.

"Me and Jonah [Coleman] have talked about it, Ephie [Ephesians Prysock], Demond [Williams Jr.] We've kind of talked about it and laughed about it." Al-Uqdah finds that having been a one-time ...

For a certain kind of very-online young man ... sexually is a fake intimacy—something altogether different from what Ephesians 5 or Song of Solomon describes. Can some justify sin under the ...

If I didn’t have some semblance of self-control, I’d eat a bar of chocolate a day. Sometimes I still do. When I was in eighth or ninth grade, my literature teacher assigned “The Bitter Side of Sweet” ...