Sins We Excuse

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. —G. K. Chesterton. ...

The Conscience Fund

Max Lucado, in his book Six Hours One Friday, tells how the U.S. government in 1811 began collecting and storing letters like the following note dated ...

"The Man Who Captured Eichmann": Rationalizing Evil

The Man Who Captured Eichmann, with Robert Duvall as the notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann, is based on the memoirs of Israeli operative Peter Malkin. It ...

Michael Card on Believers in China

Musician Michael Card said in an interview:

Again and again in China I talked to people who had never heard of Christianity, never heard of Jesus, never ...

NASCAR Crew Chief Decides Against Cheating

It was a small adjustment that could make a big difference. Sure, it was against NASCAR rules, but almost everyone else was doing it. So crew chief Tim ...

Abortion Guilt Removed

Pastor Lee Strobel shares this account:

We were doing a baptism service. We told people before they came up to the platform to be baptized to take a piece ...

Soldier Reflects After Killing Enemy

On a mission in Honduras in the 1980s, Eric L. Haney and members of his elite counterterrorist unit surrounded some Cuban-trained guerrillas on a Honduran ...

"Life as a House": Making a Wrong Right

In the movie Life as a House, George, a forty-something employee at an architectural firm, loses his job and his health. When he learns he has only four ...

Shoplifter Comes Clean...Almost

The story is told of a shoplifter who writes to a department store and says, "I've just become a Christian, and I can't sleep at night because ...

Charles Colson on Conscience

More than ever before in American history—indeed in Western history—we are witnessing the near-death of conscience…. I regularly confront ...