Children's Book Character Carries His "Sadness Shield"

We all seem to need a strategy for coping with the experience of grief. In the screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where ...

Children's Writer Says Children Grow Through Pain and Loss

Author Ken Gire writes: The children's writer Katherine Paterson wrote a book based on her son David's loss of a childhood friend. It was his ...

Classic Fairy Tales Highlight the Struggles of Life

Naomi Zacharias writes of her experiences as director of Wellspring International, an advocate for at-risk women and children around the world. She has ...

Christian Leader from Asia Critiques Our View of Suffering

Ajith Fernando, a Christian leader from Sri Lanka who ministers to the urban poor, writes:

The church in each culture has its own special challenges—theological ...

'The Weather Channel's' "Storm-Tracker" Describes Life's 'Real' Storms

For the past 38 years (as of 2024), Jim Cantore, The Weather Channel's "Storm-tracker," has tracked, chased, run into, and then reported ...

John Ortberg: God Uses Stress to Help Us Grow

In a Leadership Journal article, John Ortberg argues that sometimes stressful and painful situations can actually help us grow. Ortberg creates the following ...

Boy with Rare Disease and Rare Gift Declares God's Goodness

Anson Hui is Nineteen-years-old. At the age of three, he was diagnosed with Glycogen Storage Disease (GSD), meaning his body can't break down or store ...

In the Wake of a Drive-by Shooting, Neighbors Lose Hope

In his book Hope Is Contagious, pastor and former pro football player Ken Hutcherson shares his personal journey of facing a terminal illness. In the ...

A Blind Architect Accepts the Gift of His Limitations

Chris Downey had just started a promising architectural job at a successful design firm. A few weeks after he took the job, he noticed that there was ...

Child Learns About Safety at the Zoo

A grandfather took his daughter and the grandchildren to visit the zoo. As they visited the orangutan exhibit the only thing separating us from these ...