When Suffering, Find Empathy in the Cross

We do not always get a simple, satisfying answer to all of our questions about suffering. In a 2014 testimony about his experience with a debilitating ...

Richard Dreyfuss Reflects on His Mortality

The actor Richard Dreyfuss claims that he has a keen sense of his own mortality. He is an agnostic, but he believes in at least the possibility of reincarnation. ...

Actor John Hamm: 'It's Not Weak to Say, I Need Help.'

Actor Joe Hamm (star of the show Mad Men) did a stint in rehab for an alcohol addiction. Hamm confessed in an interview, "I'm certainly damaged—there's ...

Afghan Monarch Who Destroyed Church 'Overthrown by God'

In 1971, the Afghan government gave a fledgling band of Christians permission to plant a church in Kabul. It was the only Christian church building permitted ...

The Tin Man on the Blows that Kill Our Heart

In the original fairy tale version of The Wizard of Oz, the Tin Woodman had once been a real man who was in love with a beautiful maiden and dreamed of ...

Former Muslim Follows Jesus and Willingly Loses Everything

Open Doors, a ministry working with persecuted Christians around the globe, shared the following true story about a Muslim convert to Christ. Bagus (not ...

Christian Couple Fears Daughter Will Ruin Her Life as a Missionary

We in the American church are facing a time of testing. Our testing may not look like the testing of what the church in China is undergoing, or the church ...

What We Believe About Our Future Controls How We Experience Our Present

Imagine you have two women of the same age, the same socioeconomic status, the same educational level, and even the same temperament. You hire both of ...

Pre-Columbian Chinese Megaships Ruled The Seas, Then They Burned Them

Long before Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic, a Chinese admiral named Zheng He launched the greatest armada the world had ever seen: more ...

Climber Trapped in Crevasse Goes Deeper into the Void

In her book The Vulnerable Pastor, Mandy Smith tells the story of mountaineer Joe Simpson, shared in Simpson's memoir Touching The Void:

Thousands ...