An Example of Giving

Oseola McCarty, 87, did one thing all her life: laundry. Now she's famous for it--or at least for what she did with her profits.

For decades, Miss ...

God Doesn't Like to Be Assumed

Our family is deciding where to send our 13-year-old to school. I visited a Christian school not long ago. In a moment of quiet, I asked two faculty members ...

Education Won't Change the Heart

D. L. Moody, the great American evangelist, once said, "If a man is stealing nuts and bolts from a railway track, and, in order to change him, you ...

Parenting the Parents

We spend a lot of time on the subject of sex education in the schools. Maybe it's time to introduce mandatory courses in parenting -- for boys as ...

Unequal Status

The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion they begin to care more for ambition than for education. It is no longer a world in ...

From Parent to Inlaw to Outlaw

Popular education once recognized Christianity as its mother, yet the academic world has somehow come to treat supernatural religion as a disaffected ...

Learning New Tricks

The dental hygienist was giving her pep talk about frequent brushing and flossing, the latter being something I have some difficulty doing consistently. ...

Leaving the Comfort Zone

If we would be enlarged, we must accept all that God sends us to develop and expand our spiritual life. We are so content to abide at the old level that ...

Real Learning

Education is a bringing out of what is there and giving it the power of expression, not packing in what does not belong; and spiritual education means ...

The Word that Enriches

Abraham Lincoln did not have the education to read the King James Bible when he started doing so, and its language wasn't the language he and his ...