Focus on the Family

Editor's note: The book signing at Kentucky Soaps and Such is scheduled for Saturday, not Friday as the story originally stated. STANFORD — More than two decades after the last name Greer became infamous in Lincoln County, a descendant from the...

Health care professionals and religious leaders joined forces with a visiting minister from California to speak out against abortion at a rally Saturday in front of the Boyle County Courthouse. Rives Grogan, who along with parishioner Frank Cruz was...

The man arrested for refusing to come down from a tree during last week’s vice-presidential debate at Centre College will join forces with religious leaders from across the state in a pro-life rally that will be held Saturday in Danville. Rives...

The popular impression is that President Barack Obama's Internal Revenue Service harassed only tea party and patriot-like groups seeking tax-exempt status. If it were only so. Allegations of IRS harassment of pro-life and religious groups reach as far...

On Monday, two stories captivated the sports world: pro basketball player Jason Collins came out as gay, and the outspoken Christian quarterback Tim Tebow was cut from the New York Jets.  One man belatedly discovered the value in being true to himself,...

The Somerset County National Day of Prayer program will be held Thursday on the steps of the Somerset County Courthouse.  The program will begin at noon and conclude at 1 p.m. There will be a short time of praise and worship beginning at 11:50 a.m....

An Oak Brook health care company and its Roman Catholic owners who don't want to include birth control in their employees' benefits still have no choice, despite exceptions to the contraception mandate proposed by the Obama administration this month....

As the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments over the legality of gay marriage, NPR's Rachel Martin interviewed Jim Daly, head of Focus on the Family about same-sex marriage and Scripture. Here are excerpts of what Daly had to say: You know, when we look...

Mark Burnett, one of the most prolific reality-show producers on television, is going from scorched earth to burning bush. The former military paratrooper who made his name in Hollywood with back-biting, take-no-prisoners programs such as "Survivor,"...

Several times, reading the comments beneath an online article about religion, I've come upon remarks along the lines of: "Really? A magic being in the sky?" Terry Eagleton, in "Reason, Faith, and Revolution," refers to this pseudo-critique as the Yeti...

Super Bowl XLVII is being billed as the Harbaugh Bowl: the battle between brothers Jim and John Harbaugh, head coaches, respectively, of the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens. It also pits two NFL teams connected directly and indirectly to...

Pete Maravich came to town 25 years ago, Jan. 5, 1988. No newspaper, local or national, had an obituary prepared. No need, presumably. Everything seemed normal that morning in the gymnasium at the First Church of the Nazarene in Pasadena. Maravich had...