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From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: The workplace has been tough for many, particularly since COVID-19 shut down the world. I try to employ as many people as I can, but I can’t hire the whole world. How can I be an encouragement to those who have wrongly lost jobs? – W.L.

A: Losing a job can be a very traumatic experience. When ...Read more

The public clash between Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich and Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki over whether U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin should receive a lifetime achievement award from the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Keep Hope Alive program has spilled into the public square with damaging effect.

What might have been an internal disagreement has ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: I am a weight trainer for women who compete in sports. Clients are committed to the rigorous training it takes to win. Many of these ladies also attend a Bible study I lead. It surprises me that while they are willing to set aside things that will prevent them from being in the best physical shape, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — As the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s bankruptcy case enters its third year, there is still a gap worth hundreds of millions of dollars in court between the nation’s first diocese and the survivors of rampant sexual abuse throughout its parishes and schools.

That difference and a seeming lack of progress toward resolution, a judge...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The ambulance siren blared down the quiet residential street where a 4-year-old boy was dying.

When police and paramedics arrived at 1521 Latham St. in Colton, California, they had no clue they were entering the home of a secretive religious group that — years later — would land in the spotlight after two members were ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: Prudish people of this world have convinced others that God looks down on sexual relations outside of marriage. This is manmade, and it gives God a bad name to suggest that He withholds from people the personal pleasures that He Himself created. Who is man to say what is sin? – G.R.

A: Premarital...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: It has been encouraging that we’ve seen a turnaround in trying to remove every Christian thought from the public arena. Isn’t our hope for America found in returning to our roots and reinstituting Biblical truth? – A.F.

A: Removing the Bible and all Christian symbols from the landscape and ...Read more

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

Q: My college professor teaches that sin is an imagination of the mind. He says that sin for one is not necessarily a sin for another. Isn’t this a little bit over his pay grade? How can people decide what sin is or is not? – S.N.

A: The notion of sin and the nature of sin have been debated from ...Read more