A Long List of Fears

Phobialist.com is a collection of the names and descriptions of more than 500 fears that a man named Fredd Culbertson has collected and organized. He ...

Discouraged Woman Learns What Good Shepherds Do

As a young mother, one Christmas brought Brenda Nixon to despair. Amid all the holiday stress, her husband's job was shaky and the grim possibility ...

Why Theology Is Necessary

Theology is necessary because truth and experience are related. While some would deny, or at least question this connection, in the long run the truth ...

Finding God Is a Low Priority

"Feeling better has become more important to us than finding God."

Terminal Illness Changes Perspective

Imagine that you just found out you have a rare and terminal illness. You sit down with your doctor.

"Is there no hope?" you ask.

"Well," ...

Military Mortician Sees Faith Sustain the Grieving

American soldiers who do not survive the conflict in Iraq come back to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Since 1955, the Dover mortuary has been the next-to-last ...

Trusting God When Miracles Don't Come

In Holding On to Hope, Nancy Guthrie writes:

We had Hope for 199 days. We loved her. We enjoyed her richly and shared her with everyone we could. We held ...

How the Apostle Paul Suffered in Prison

The Apostle Paul spent roughly one-quarter of his missionary career in prisons. John McRay wrote in Christian History:

Roman imprisonment was preceded ...

CEO Jack Welch's Shaken Faith

Jack Welch, former corporate chief at General Electric, grew up as a devoted Irish-Catholic. He was an altar boy, and later, as an adult, he was known ...

Emily Dickinson Struggled with Faith

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American poet who wrote mainly of death and immortality. In 1846, Dickinson's letters to her most intimate friend, ...