The richest of the world's richest just got richer. In the last year, the world's billionaires added $800 billion dollars to their wealth. According to the latest issue of Forbes, when all the money is counted, the 1,426 billionaires have a combined net worth of $5.4 trillion. That means...

After the election, I published an article in this space that struck a chord with many Christians. I suggested that engaging in a bitter 'culture war' in order to preserve America's formerly dominant Christian culture has been largely a failed strategy. We cannot win in the courts and...

The day I became a Christian, one of the first people I wanted to tell was my mother. I had considered myself an atheist while I studied neurobiology in college. But as I studied more, I discovered Jesus and became a Christian. It was the early 1970s, and my mother's...

Conflicts between religious and secular organizations have filled the news this year. From political ads to boycotts, religious viewpoints seem to be in opposition to secular positions. On both sides, the attitude can be one of mutual suspicion, with neither side willing to work toward common values or to seek...

Where's the outrage about dads? Over the last year -- climaxing this Mother's Day -- pundits and talking heads have been arguing about Tiger Moms, breastfeeding moms, working moms, stay at home moms, and the so-called war on women. The importance of mothers cannot be understated. But make no mistake...

Commentators this month have debated whether the HBO program "Girls" exhibits an adequate degree of diversity. Could a show about young women in New York -- especially one that is supposed to be more real and authentic than "Sex in the City" -- really feature only white girls of privilege?...

I still remember the day in 1963 when I plunked down my 12 cents as a boy in Syracuse, N.Y., to buy my copy of The Avengers, No. 1. As an avid comic book reader, I would lose myself in this fantasy world spanning Asgard, home of the Norse...

Each year during Holy week, Christians around the world anticipate what come call the "Old Faithful" of miracles.

At the Church of the Holy Sepulchre -- built over the traditional site that encompasses Jesus' tomb and the place of his crucifixion -- the archbishop enters the tomb after being inspected...

Lito Eduardo, a 12-year-old boy in Mozambique, is among the 40 percent of people in his country who don't have access to clean, safe water. As a result, he wakes up at 2 a.m., hours before dawn, and hikes two and a half miles to fetch water from a river...

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Last week the one-time global financier Allen Stanford was convicted of perpetrating a massive $8 billion fraud. What makes Stanford's crime galling is not just the...

With battles raging in Syria, the Arab Spring is no longer the popular hopeful movement it was a year ago. Just as the popular protests for human rights were spreading from Tunisia to Egypt and across the Middle East last year, I visited a Christian family in the West Bank....

This has been a bad year for the world's bad guys. As we started 2011, brutal dictators and plotting terrorists were comfortably in power. But by the end of the year, a number were dead, defeated, or defiantly opposed by the people they sought to rule. It reminds us that...

In 2008, World Vision and other groups worked with Congress to pass an important piece of legislation that protects a basic human value. The law prohibits our government from funding militaries that use children. Unfortunately, it also allowed some loopholes, and for the second year in a row, the Obama...

I watched the Republican debates from my hotel in London this week, where I am meeting with other World Vision leaders. Being overseas, and watching them hours after the live event, provides a more objective perspective on home. During part of the discussion that evening, I found myself thinking: This...

Flavia Chewe is a medical caregiver in Zamtan, Zambia. She is on the frontlines of the fight against malaria, a battle that we're slowly winning. After World Vision distributes mosquito nets to a village, Flavia visits each house to instruct families in how to use them.

"Once the people...

"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink ..." --Matthew 25:35-36

Jesus' words are a powerful and inspiring reminder as I sit in my office browsing on news websites the stories and images of the staggering tragedy unfolding in the Horn...

SEATTLE -- Last Monday, July 4, I was holding David, my 5-month-old grandson, and savoring his facial expressions as we watched his father grilling hamburgers, celebrating his first Independence Day.

In a few years, he will begin learning about courageous individuals who fought an oppressive government whose armies incited unspeakable...

Though it may not seem natural that one of the largest international charities and the world's leading aerospace firm would join together on an issue of such critical public importance, World Vision and The Boeing Company are firm believers that the U.S. needs to do more to invest in people...