"The Fellowship of the Ring": The Seductive Power of Sin

In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo Baggins passes on to Frodo a coveted ring.

Gollum, one of the original ...

Intrigue of Evil

In The Divine Intruder, James R. Edwards writes:

In imaginary works it is difficult to make virtuous characters as believable and attractive as bad characters. ...

God's Timetable

The story is told of a farmer in a Midwestern state who had a strong disdain for "religious" things. As he plowed his field on Sunday morning, ...

Devil: The Image of Man?

If the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

When I Was Wicked

Our son Jonathan asked Jesus to come into his heart when he was four. A few months later as I was getting him ready for bed, he asked in all seriousness, ...

When God Rains on the Good--And the Bad

The fact that evil people prosper is a problem that goes back into the Old Testament. But Jesus said that our Father causes the sun to shine on the bad ...

Life According to Stalin

One death is a tragedy. A thousand is just a statistic.

The Stockholm Syndrome

"The term Stockholm Syndrome first occurred in 1973 at an attempted bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. A man tried to rob a bank, and the police ...

Capturing the Worst Criminal

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realized exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and ...

The Uncaring Generation

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.