This opinion highlights insights from Dr. David Wang's work with leaders. His findings point to what he calls intercultural competence, the ability to appreciate, understand, and respect another person's perspective. Read on and learn three principles to enhance your relationships as a leader.
God has mandated his people to be good stewards of creation, to create resources for the good of society, to love God first and then love our neighbor, and to take the gospel to all nations. Businesses run according to biblical principles have potential to achieve all of those outcomes. Here is an introduction to some of those principles.
Some 4,000 attended the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship gathering in London just days following the 2025 Munich Security Council Conference. A resurgent form of conservative Anglo-American Christendom featured center-stage. Netherlands-based New Zealander Jeff Fountain shares concerns about the dangerous geo-political shifts and the religious dimension supporting it for what it means for our near future.
Children around the world experience all kinds of trauma in their contexts, no more so than those in conflict zones. Help children to heal from trauma is a much needed ministry. Specialist care is best but if it is not available here are some basic practices that can be of great benefit.
The US National Prayer Breakfast is a tradition in Washington, D.C. the first Thursday of every year. This year participants from all over the world were encouraged by the call for a revival of religious fervor. It is good and right to pray for our leaders and this opinion provide sound biblical guidance.
The global pandemic began a decade of tremendous uncertainty, loss, and suffering. It is fruitless to try and fight, control, or ignore grief. Here, we look to Scripture for healthy examples of dealing with the trials of life.
Western expressions of our faith have dichotomized church and missions as different things. This should never be so. We can learn from the African Church that all believers carry a responsibility for missions-type of activities.
Artificial, augmented, or assisted intelligence can be entrancing. There are many pitfalls to be aware of, but in January a disruptive newcomer was released to the public from China called DeepSeek and it may help improve critical thinking.
We can all too flippantly use the term "God willing", while not really appreciating what God's will might be. He has made some of his will plain, but there is much about the future we can not know. Yet true believers trust that it will be for good.
Mothers experience a great deal of change when first becoming a parent. This time in a family's life can provide an open door for exploring spirituality and finding faith within a mothers group. The rest of the family is likely to follow.
It is so very easy to be swayed by the philosophies of the world today and hold to certain beliefs tightly thinking we are being our authentic selves. But Jesus demands something different. Only when we surrender our lives to him will we find our true identity in Christ.
While some parts of the world experience horrific terrorism and abuse of Christians, churches have the opportunity to make the biggest difference for religious freedom in the world today. In this final part of a series on religious freedom, our attention turns to Latin America.
