Unused Spiritual Resources

During Superbowl XXXVII, FedEx ran a commercial that spoofed the movie Castaway, in which Tom Hanks played a FedEx worker whose company plane went down, ...

Augustine on Wolves within the Church

There are many sheep without, many wolves within.

Ants Teach to Benefit Others

Research has revealed that worker ants sacrifice time and efficiency in order to teach other ants how to find food—a practice that is beneficial ...

Good Deeds Correlated with Good Health

Stephen G. Post, professor of bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, recently headed a comprehensive study of altruism where ...

Cancer Ministry Mirrors the Church

Laura Armstrong is the founder of Chemo Angels, which she describes as "a volunteer organization dedicated to adding a ray of sunshine to the lives ...

Football Games Mirror the Church

Bud Wilkinson, the legendary coach of the University of Oklahoma football team from 1947 to 1963, once described his game as "50,000 people who desperately ...

Reese Witherspoon Values Church Attendance

Actress Reese Witherspoon describes the benefit of attending church:

"I was raised going to church every Sunday, and I go to church most Sundays with ...

Bono Discusses the Church

In an interview with a long-time friend, international pop superstar Bono, of the hit band U2, responded to the sometimes-stained reputation of the church ...

City Slicker Brands His Cattle to Death

A New York family bought a ranch out West where they intended to raise cattle. Friends visited and asked if the ranch had a name. "Well," said the would-be ...

The Danger of "Hydraulic Fluid" Holiness

There was quite a mix-up at the Duke University Hospitals in Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina. Sometime in November 2004, maintenance workers had drained ...