Brad Bergesen crumpled to the dirt, face down and motionless. It wasn’t the pain, per se. It just happened so quickly, he needed a few moments to collect himself. The ball had smashed into Bergesen’s left shin and careened into the infield grass, where the catcher scooped it up and threw to first base for the third out of the inning. Bergesen, a young right-hander for the Orioles, popped up and trotted to the dugout – propelled by adrenaline more than the assurance that everything was fine. Everything was not fine.”In the clubhouse, the pain hit me and I […]

The 2010 National Day of Prayer (NDP), despite generating more controversy than in recent years, went off mostly without a hitch on May 6. Even with a controversial court ruling the previous week, Americans turned out in droves to pray for their leaders and to ask for God’s blessing. The annual observance of the National Day of Prayer on Capitol Hill had become almost routine until this year, when a federal judge ruled the law creating the day is unconstitutional. Ironically, that ruling may have energized Christians participating in the event. “I think it is waking people up across this […]

  Squeezed between the Harlem River and the old Yankee Stadium lies the mostly-forgotten neighborhood of Mott Haven. For decades, this South Bronx community has borne the brunt of crime, drugs and poverty, against the back-drop of a city that is home to the luxuriously rich and the desperately poor. Mott Haven is a hodge-podge of storefronts, public housing, abandoned buildings and turn-of-the-century brownstones and was recently was ranked by the Daily News as one of the worst neighborhoods in New York City to raise kids – based on statistics for education, crime and health risks such as asthma, diabetes […]

  For the past ten years, promoters of the .xxx domain have tried to convince ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to establish the new web domain in hopes of creating another avenue to access pornography. If created, the .xxx domain name would be its own specific domain category for adult web sites that contain sexual content. While the domain proposal is being reviewed, critics on both sides have been making their voices heard.  Some claim that approving the domain would act as a filter, by letting people know ahead of time what type of website they […]

  Accompanying the much-anticipated Apple iPad launch a few weeks ago, Zondervan, the world’s leading Christian publisher, is one of the first publishers that has already released titles for the new Apple device. Starting in April, Zondervan released more than 1,000 titles, which are available to be downloaded. Over the next three months, it plans to release another 150 books. It eventually plans to release all its eBooks in the iPad version. Zondervan’s titles are available from Apple’s iBookstore. In addition to purchasing material, users will have the option to read book reviews, author information, excerpts and additional details about […]