Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle and cemented by time. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) ...
“Somehow I can’t believe there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true,” Walt Disney once said. “This special secret can be...
I have been a writer for 28 years, and anyone who creates anything knows the road is paved with doubt. Can I write? Am I a fool to think that I can compete...
It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the...
A cold Boston breeze rushed as I drove from the airport to a hospital to be with my eighty-year-old mother. One week earlier her life was a simple routine. Then came a heart...
The biggest geek in the senior class is sitting alone in the bustling high school cafeteria. He stares self-consciously at his plate, pushes his food around, counts the minutes until the period is...
Each day we imagine what things could be like, and we are often discouraged when they do not match our dreams.
Since it began 35 years ago, Harvard University's legendary course on Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis...
Listening is difficult because most of us are too busy speaking. God, on the other hand, listens generously to us, and He listens as we rattle on and on. The 20th century Christian...
President Harry Truman loved to tell about the annual Fourth of July picnic he attended growing up in Missouri. Every year, an old Civil War veteran would rise and tell the same battle story. ...
One of the things I like most about the Bible is the motley and flawed collection of characters that populate its pages...
"Ain’t she a beauty?" ...
The LORD said to Moses, "Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders."… They came back...
The man who fears is not made perfect in love. (1 John 4:18b NIV) ...
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? ...
"This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever. Seven...
If you listen, you can hear what they say about him: ...
In 1967, a turbulent era not unlike our own, the late Northrop Frye was a biblical and literary scholar. He also was an ordained clergyman in the United Church of Canada, and he made this...
I have seen bad things happen to good people, and I have experienced difficult times for myself. Their suffering has helped me...
James wrote to regular Christians, folks like you and me. Folks who know trials, temptations, and suffering (James 1:2-13; 3; 10). Folks...
