A recent newspaper article carried the title, "Court Rules Against Crosses." The article was about a Supreme Court decision not to overrule the judgment of a lower court prohibiting San Diego County f...
During the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 an American reporter was flying over the Sinai desert with an Israeli officer, and they spotted some fifty thousand stranded Egyptian soldiers who obviously were...
In the choir stalls of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna you can see carved the letters A E I O U. Indeed you can see them in many places in the Austrian Capital. They stand for a Latin phrase which m...
In his book The Man Who Was Thursday G.K. Chesterton put these words in the mouth of one of his characters: "We have only known the back of the world." It must certainly be remembered that our...
In his book The Man Who Was Thursday G. K. Chesterton put these words in the mouth of one of his characters: "We have only known the back of the world." It must certainly be remembered that our knowle...
Novelist Ayn Rand had mesmerized a student audience at Yale University with her prickly ideas. Afterward a reporter from, Time Magazine asked her, "Miss Rand, what's wrong with the modern world?" With...
In a Preaching magazine sermon called "Easter as an Earthquake," William Willimon concluded with these words: "In the fifties, in China, there was a devastating earthquake. But as a result of the quak...
The Finno-Ugrians were the ancient ancestors of both the people of Finland and the people of Hungary. They regarded the wild duck as a sacred animal. This was because they held that the world came int...
A 26-word parade of hope: beginning with God, ending with life, and urging us to do the same. Brief enough to write on a napkin or memorize in a moment, yet solid enough to weather two thousand years ...
Sports figures often provide spiritual lessons in their speech, attitude and overall character....
True love is a self-sacrificial expression of life-giving energy, forgiveness, empathy and compassion toward any and all things within our world....
A poor little boy once heard his Sunday School teacher say Jesus was the Light of the world. He took her remark quite literally. After class, the boy said to his teacher, "If Jesus really is the Light...
Let your light so shine that the world sees Christ in you, and the darkness is cast away from such radiance....
William Carey had to overcome great odds to obey the call of God. In The Challenge of Life, Oswald J. Smith noted that "even the Directors of the East India Company opposed [Carey's] work. Following i...
In his famous autobiography, Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton wrote of the death of Christ and used three little prases: He was sacrificed for us, by us and with us. We understand that it was for ...
One of the Seven Wonders of the World was the Pharos Lighthouse at Alexandria. The world's first skyscraper, it was said that the light could be seen 30 miles out to sea. It shone for 1700 years -- bu...
J. Gresham Machen, world renowned theologian, accepted lowly work while serving as a YMCA volunteer during World War I. He was assigned the task of making hot chocolate at a canteen. Since it had to b...
If you think issues of uncleanness are limited to the ancient world, consider this cover story headline last year from an issue of U.S. News World Report: "The Future of Water: Costly - Dirty - Sc...
When Queen Elizabeth was crowned they brought to her a sceptre. On the top of it was the star of Africa, the largest diamond in the world. Before that they brought to her a staff. On the top of tha...
In a recent post on his blog, Mike Glenn wrote: “The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard told a story of thieves who broke into a jewelry store and didn’t steal anything; they simply rearranged the p...