Dear Lord,

I kneel in a moment of reverent silence seeking words, finding none to express the wonderment my soul experiences in the face of such unfathomable love.

How does one approach you in this season when we commemorate your suffering service to a...

"He killed my son."

Words no father should ever utter, and yet that these words hang in the atmosphere over Sanford, Fla., like humidity on a dank summer's eve; like an echo unanswered, demanding recompense.

Tracey Martin's outcry at the killing of his 17-year-old son, Trayvon, armed only with a...

10 things to learn spiritually from Whitney Houston.

Although taken far too soon and too unexpectedly, we can learn these things from Whitney Houston's home going services:

1. She was a child of God and embraced that posture throughout her life

2. She never strayed far from...

The title tells the tale of a dichotomous man: Reverend. Doctor.

One foot planted squarely in two separate and seemingly incongruent worlds.

One hand lifted in triumphant exultation. The other, extended low to uplift the downtrodden, the unseen disenfranchised, the unheard and underserved,...

Editor's Note: The following is excerpted from "The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God."

The Bible, the world's most read book, sets forth the greatest story ever told. It is a love story unlike no other, underscored by the countless...

Dear Lord, I couldn't move into another year without apologizing for the things I should've said earlier and didn't, and acknowledge the times I could've done better but didn't.

Thanks for moving me while I grumbled about the changes you made. And thanks for the things you steered me past...

Historic leader, world changer, intrepid icon -- all words that fall short as descriptors of one truly magnificent human being who changed our history and turned the world as we knew it upside down in a handful of tumultuous years.

We lost an uncompromising leader in the passing of Fred...

Dear God:

Thou who has been our help in ages past, thou who dispenses your comfort to all those who mourn. We seek your grace to strengthen us as we commemorate the lives of loved ones who have been lost on this day of anguish for our country and our...