But if Abbasi (the human) had not been able to reach Han, did Abbasi (the photojournalist) do what was right? As Christians, we ought to ask ourselves a similar question: Would we have taken that picture?

I never pray for President Obama. I never pray for members of Congress either. I hardly remember to pray for my own family!

Now that the election is over and the blitzkrieg of TV and YouTube ads have died down somewhat, the dust has begun to settle and Samantha can go back to her usual business. Even though not everyone she voted for won, the 21-year-old engineering major can at least rest assured that she did her part, participating in the democratic process. She gave each race a reasonable amount of thought – even the competition for a city council seat, which didn’t seem that important – and tried to make a decision based on the facts rather than her biases. With luck, she thinks, the country will still be around in two years when the next Congressional elections come around. Until then, she can put politics out of her mind and focus on real life.

Sad songs are important to us, working against our tendency toward unrealistic exuberance. They feel true-to-life rather than packaged in sparkly paper. Sad Christmas songs counterbalance the merriment and revelry the holiday season tends to induce.

The drafting of a fuller American philosophy of drugs—one no longer tied to alcohol specifically. 

We should put our butts in the chair and do it. We should engage with this system, not despite our concerns and complaints, but because of them.

We get to be a part of what God does with this world¬- not just as Democrats and Republicans, but as Christians, no matter what side of the party line we stand on.

Students at the University of Missouri encourage their peers to register to vote.

You probably know at least one person who thinks, “Who cares about voting?” We should care—we, the voters between the ages of 18 and 29. Apart from the idea that policies enacted today will directly affect our lives tomorrow, a decision to vote is a matter of adequate representation of our interests.

Development of technology is part of the cultural mandate and rightly functions, through common grace, to ameliorate the effects of the fall. Thus, rightly understanding human value as grounded in individual teleology should lead us to consider how best to ensure justice for all people...

Some of the most incisive political commentary of this election year has come from an unlikely source: film comedian Will Ferrell.

If we’re not that different, then why have we created Shared Justice? Haven’t issues of civic involvement, education reform, budgets and more been talked about for years? What’s the point of starting up something new to talk about the same old issues?