Syrians Risk Lives for Secret Library

When a place has been besieged for years and hunger stalks the streets, you might think that people would have little interest in books. But enthusiasts ...

Inuit Hunters Losing Ability to Read Surroundings

The small island of Igloolik, in northern Canada is a bewildering place in the winter. The average temperature hovers at about 20 degrees below zero, ...

How to Make God's Clear Words Ambiguous

Lee Strobel uses the following illustration to highlight the moral rebellion that makes clear truths of Scripture much more ambiguous than they are.

Imagine ...

Daughter Receives Mom's Letters 23 Years After Death

For the longest time, Amanda Lemmond didn't have much of her mother to hold onto. She still has the stuffed animal bunny her mother gave her one Easter ...

Ship Misguided by Faulty Maps

In the Kingdom of Ice is journalist Hampton Sides' compelling account of the failed nineteenth-century polar expedition of the USS Jeannette, captained ...

The Emoji Bible

News came out about another new Bible translation that is available as of May 29, 2016 on Apple iBooks. Okay, this Bible isn't exactly on a par with ...

Lost? Confused? Try These 'Sneakairs' on for Size

It's a classic travel scenario: you're in a new city, you're trying to find that museum or coffee shop, and it's just not happening. Maybe ...

Star Wars Film Shows We Need Good Stories

According to an article in The New York Times, "The Walt Disney Company's Star Wars: The Force Awakens earned roughly $517 million in worldwide ticket ...

Fighting Human Trafficking Requires Absolutes

In his book Visions of Vocation, Christian author and thinker Stephen Garber tells the story of meeting a woman who directed the Protection Project, an ...

Former Lesbian Refuses to Bend Biblical Teaching

Dr. Rosaria Butterfield, a former tenured professor at the University of Syracuse, was a committed and comfortable lesbian until she had what she described ...