The Nebraska football team suffered a heartbreaking loss to the Texas Longhorns Saturday night in the Big 12 Championship game. Despite a dominating performance by the Husker defense and a Heisman worthy performance by Ndamukong Suh (4 1/2 sacks, 12 tackles, 7 of which were for loss) which likely spoiled Colt McCoy’s own Heisman hopes, the Longhorns triumphed 13-12. This defeat was a crushing blow at my household for one Nebraska alum and one young 9 year-old ...

In recent decades, the word “Christian” has taken quite a beating in our culture. Though I have some older relatives who do not follow Jesus, I am certain they’d be offended if I said they weren’t Christians. This is because “Christian” has become synonymous with “nice, decent, respectable American.” Were I to suggest that these nice, decent, respectable Americans—who were raised attending Sunday school, no less—weren’t “Christians,” I have ...