ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--Americans love eating out. Apparently entrepreneurs have noticed as the United States has more than 935,000 restaurants. Sales in full-service restaurants exceeds $150 billion annually.

ALEXANDRIA, LA (BP)--Every Sunday morning Crystal was dressed and ready for church before the van arrived at her home. She attended Sunday School with a smile, but without her parents.

NEW ORLEANS (BP)--An absolutely fool-proof way to stress yourself out is by staying glued to the television newscasts about the economy. "Wall Street dropped another 700 points today!" "Here is our panel of experts to tell you why the news is just...

SENEGAL, West Africa (BP)--Pitching a tent in the backyard of a traditional African compound will bring untold adventure right to you. Trust me.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (BP)--"Are you working in Cedar Rapids?" the girl at the McDonald's drive-through window asked as we purchased our lunch. She had seen the large Southern Baptist disaster relief decal on our vehicle and recognized our yellow...

NORTH KOREA (BP)--Flicking ashes from his Chinese cigarette, Yong* contemplates a visitor's question: Do North Koreans have lucky numbers?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--From all outward signs, John seemed to be a wonderful sixth-grade boys' Sunday School teacher. He prepared, attended leadership meetings, participated in outreach and even spent time with the boys outside of Sunday School.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--You know you've been to the hospital too many times when the emergency room staff knows you by name. When my boys were younger, I think we even may have qualified for customer loyalty cash back on certain hospital procedures.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--"Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons," Isaiah wrote. There are many --...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--On May 7, a much-anticipated document, "An Evangelical Manifesto," was officially revealed to the public. The organizers' press release declared the Manifesto to be a "three-year effort ... to reclaim the definition of what...

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--There are a good many things about which most of us maintain a healthy skepticism. Some of those are listed in the title of this essay. However skeptical you may be, there are two categories of humans for whom at least one...

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Ben Stein's new movie "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" opens this weekend in theaters. It explores the widespread persecution -- destruction of livelihoods, careers and reputations -- of scientists who doubt Darwin's...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--"Path to scandal: Why does this keep happening?" a recent USA Today headline asked. The "this" in the headline referred to the recent revelation that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been unfaithful to his wife with a prostitute.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Recently CBS Sunday Morning news devoted a segment to the question of whether the Bible teaches tithing. The reporter featured a new book by Russell Kelly entitled "Should the Church Teach Tithing?" As a whole, the program...

JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--C.S. Lewis in "The Problem of Pain" says that God often uses the experiences of suffering as a megaphone to awaken us. Suffering and pain, Lewis said, are often the essential means by which God brings about dependence,...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--Prayer is a powerful evangelistic tool. It not only changes others, but it changes you. Prayer shapes the attitudes that motivate you.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Sandra was a 17-year-old girl who was with her mom and dad on a fall vacation visiting family friends. The friends they were visiting had an 18-year-old son.

WALTON, Ky. (BP)--She cowered in the darkness of the closet just as she had done on numerous occasions in the past. Her dark brown eyes reflected distrust and uncertainty. As I reached to stroke the curly, auburn hair that clung to her...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The Christmas story is timeless. Its fascination never grows old. It is simple in its brevity, yet profound in its message of hope and deliverance. In it, our Heavenly Father engages every part of the human psyche -- the...

NEW ORLEANS (BP)--It is Christmas time. Time for holiday events, Christmas trees, gifts, etc. It is also the season to get asked the question, "What is the archaeological evidence for the birth of Jesus?"

GERMANTOWN, Md. (BP)--I was writing a story on Baltimore Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts for a Christian publication when The Los Angeles Times broke the bombshell news in October 2006 that the fan favorite had been linked to steroids by a...

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Lying in a hospital bed overseas in October -- for the second time this year -- I wondered what I had done to deserve, first, a bout of food poisoning and, now, an aching appendix.

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--End of the year moviegoers, and especially parents of pre-teen children, need to know that what promises to be the most alluring blockbuster of the Christmas season -- "The Golden Compass" -- is a dose of spiritual poison...