A Lesson on Community from The Lord of the Rings

A lot has been said about the little brotherhood of hobbits tasked with saving Middle Earth in The Lord of The Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. Much of ...

Frederick Buechner Reflects on the Magi and Herod

In a playful lexicon of religious terms entitled Peculiar Treasures, author Frederick Buechner captures well the interesting interplay of the stories ...

A Lesson on Stewardship from "The Lord of the Rings"

In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien writes about a kingdom called Gondor which for many years has had no king. While waiting for the rightful heir to come ...

A New Quest for Immortality

A new movement has emerged from California's Silicon Valley. It's a combination of philosophy, faith, and science known as transhumanism. An article ...

Billie Holiday on Losing Despite Winning

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

—Billie Holiday, U.S. jazz singer (1915–1959)

Resident Regrets Snap Judgment of Patient

Dr. Katrina Firlik was the first woman admitted into the neurosurgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her recent book, Another ...

Missionary Learns Valuable Lesson from African Pastor

Helen Roseveare, a medical missionary in Africa, was the only doctor in a large hospital. There were constant interruptions and shortages, and she was ...

How Elvis Taught Me That the First Will Be Last

Many years ago, our family lived in Memphis. One day our 16-year-old son was reading the local paper and saw that a movie about Elvis Presley was going ...

Beatitudes for the 21st Century

Suppose we were to come up with a set of Beatitudes for the 21st Century. What if we made a list of the kinds of people who seem to be well-off—who ...

One Nation, Under Me

Kevin Baugh has his own country—The Republic of Molossia—and if you don't mind, he'd prefer you call him "His Excellency Kevin ...