Experiencing the Beauty of Peace in Bethlehem

For reasons I cannot quite remember (perhaps the guidebooks or the guide himself told us it wasn't much to get worked up about), I wasn't excited ...

Philip Yancey on Observing a Mellow, Domesticated Christmas

When the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci went to China in the sixteenth century, he brought along samples of religious art to illustrate the Christian ...

Famous Vietnamese Girl Transformed by Christ

Millions have seen Nick Ut's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Phan Thi Kim Phuc (pronounced "fuke"). On June 8, 1972, a napalm bomb was dropped ...

Tony Blair Defends God's Goodness

As many in Britain have reflected on the life and leadership of Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007), stories have ...

God Uses Woman's Painful Past to Minister to Homeless Women

In an issue of Today's Christian, Carol Heath shared her moving testimony:

I hated everything about my life.

After twenty-three years in a loveless ...

Lessons from the Exodus

In his book Exodus and Revolution, Michael Walzer shares three lessons we can all learn from the Exodus event of the Old Testament:

What the Exodus … ...

The Finish Is More Important Than the Start

Mark Batterson writes in Wild Good Chase:

I discovered the importance of pacing when running my first triathlon. I did all my training for the swim leg ...

Steven Curtis Chapman on Dealing with Daughter's Death

On May 17, 2008, Christian recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman and his family suffered a devastating loss. Five-year-old adopted daughter, Maria, was ...

C. S. Lewis on How Pain Transforms Us

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what he is doing. He is getting the drains ...

Man Learns Early Lesson in Accountability

Kevin Harney writes in “Leadership from the Inside Out:”

I had been serving in the church high school ministry for just over a year. I loved ...