The Importance of Concentration

Warren Bennis, in Why Leaders Can't Lead, writes:

The flying Wallendas are perhaps the world's greatest family of aerialists and tightrope walkers. ...

Preaching to the Dying

Andrew Meekens, an elder in the International Evangelical Church of Addis Ababa, was one of those who died on November 23, 1996, when a hijacked jet ran ...

Home Before Dark

When I started out as a boy preaching, Father went along. Then when I got old enough to go by myself, he'd meet me at the little railroad station in ...

The Hope of Dying

George Palmer said before he died, "I'm homesick for heaven." It's the hope of dying that has kept me alive this long.

All Flesh Is as Grass

Consumerism is fed by a desire to forget our mortality.

Living in the Presence of Death

Philip Yancey tells of a painting in the Prado Museum in Spain by Hans Baldung titled "The Stages of Life with Death." On the ground is a newborn ...

The Struggle Against Death

The fundamental thing behind all motivation and all activity is the constant struggle against annihilation and against death. Death is absolutely stupefying ...

Doctors Willing to Kill

Percent of U.S. doctors who treat the seriously ill who would be willing to hasten a patient's death by prescribing medication--11

Percent who would provide ...

The One Modern Taboo

Do you know what the modern taboo is? I read an article recently that said that we now wear on our T-shirts what we used to not tell our analysts. Isn't ...

Comforted by Their Presence

Ray and Judy Williamson's son, David, was killed in a fall at Red River Gorge several weeks ago. Speaking later, Ray said, "I used to wonder ...