As commencement season winds down, it's discomfiting to think that almost half of new graduates know exactly where they're headed when school's out: back to their parents' homes.

Chilling new details have emerged from representatives of conservative groups who testified before Congress about being targeted by the IRS. Their testimony sheds light on the vast powers of the IRS and what Americans can expect under Obamacare.

"It's Not About the Nail" is a short video that's been making the rounds. It takes a humorous look at the differences in how men and women communicate – and if you've been married for at least five minutes, you can probably relate to what the couple in the clip is going through.

There's a song that says, "don't let it go to your head, no." Perhaps First Lady Michelle Obama and President Obama should listen to its lyrics. It seems America's first black president -- as well as his wife -- have gotten so used to the coddling from the mainstream media that they believe they're above criticism or heckling.

Dan Brown's novels have been published in 52 languages, with 200 million copies in print. This son of a math teacher and a church organist has frustrated theologians like me for years with his misleading attacks on the historicity of the Christian faith, most notably in The DaVinci Code. I read his latest novel, Inferno, with much apprehension. To my surprise, there is not a single line attacking the Church or the faith of its members.

Next week my denomination will receive the report from a special committee tasked with seeking unity between Calvinists and non-Calvinists in the Southern Baptist Convention. The report concludes what I've long suspected: we have much more uniting us across these questions than dividing us, and most of us are ready to love one another and work together.

I was serving a church in St. Petersburg, Florida, when it hit me hard. One of my young children had playfully fallen on the floor in the foyer after a worship service. A deacon in the church came up to me and spoke forcefully: "You need to tell your kid to get up. Pastors' children aren't supposed to act that way."

This week, I was perusing a Facebook page authored by former adherents to Islam who decided to leave it and who are now following Jesus.

Interim report on Australian study of homosexual parents adds little to debate over the well-being of children with same-sex parenting.

Just because William Wilberforce brought British slavery laws crashing down in the early 1800s, we assume slavery has ended. Not so.