In the 1950s, observers coined “upward mobility” to describe the lower- and middle-class rise to better conditions: more money, nicer houses, higher...
In his wonderfully readable book Everybody’s Normal ‘Til You Get to Know Them, author John Ortberg uses the story of the Capernaum invalid to illustrate friendship. ...
In the eight years since I received my doctorate, my career path looks like this: adjunct professor; dean of fine arts/communications; full-time professor; program administrator; unemployed. ...
From my perch on a wide shelf halfway up the canyon wall, I looked back over the territory I had hiked. The day was clear and Montecito lay at the edge of the...
A beautiful Hollywood couple was on the Phil Donahue show. The dazzled audience thought they were the picture of true and lasting love. ...
John Gruden is the coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He likes to max out as a person, and he wants his players to max out too. That’s Gruden’s way of saying he...
You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You’re out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on...
“Our business is to get [humans] away from the eternal and from the Present . . . It is far better to make them live in the Future. Biological necessity makes all their passions point in that...
I was attending college in England when the London Times ran an animated discussion between two learned professors as to which path through the Alps Hannibal had taken. More than 2,000 years before...
Three years ago last September, my wife and I visited Israel with other members of our church in Bellingham, Washington. Those quiet, worshipful moments in Israel remain fresh in my mind—halcyon...
“The wicked man earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.” Proverbs 11:16 ...
Two moments of fear in the life of C. S. Lewis were: ...
Like everyone else coming into the world, I was born with a baby face. My misfortune was to keep mine longer than most, and through my twenties my face sometimes caused me problems...
For when the One Great Scorer comes To mark against your name, He writes—not that you won or lost— But how you played the Game. Grantland Rice, Alumnus Football, 1924 If sports imagery races...
A week or so back, our three young-adult children all happened to be under the homestead roof during a lunch hour. Every year we vacation together, and we gather for holidays, but it...
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according...
"Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness." Acts 4:29 ...
When I was seven, I wanted to be Phyllis because she had the prettiest voice in the choir. At fifteen, I wanted to be Kathy because she looked like a flower blossom, and...
As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a new way of life shaped by God's life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, "I am holy; you be holy." ...
Paul and Silas waited in an inner cell shut off from light, too dark even to see. Unfairly accused, stripped, beaten, publicly humiliated, and thrown into jail, everything about the day was...
