London Zoo Displays Humans

In the summer of 2005, the London Zoo posted a sign in front of their newest exhibit, reading, "Warning: Humans in Their Natural Environment." ...

Prostitute Resists Her Chance for Freedom

New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof chose two Cambodian prostitutes and attempted to buy their freedom from their brothel owners. He selected young ...

Right Versus Rights

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

—G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England, 1917

No Middle Ground in Middle Earth

Behind The Lord of the Rings epic trilogy is The Silmarillion, another of Tolkien's works, which explains the formation of Middle Earth and depicts ...

Pain Can Make Us Willing

In an old Christian song titled "Hornets", the verses recount the stories of Jonah, Moses, and Balaam, and how God got them to say or do what ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Freedom

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Evil Isn't God's Fault

A certain preacher and an atheistic barber were walking through city slums.

The barber said, "This is why I can't believe in your God of love. If he was ...

Indulgence Leads to Destruction

When I was growing up in Johannesburg, we used to go across to Pretoria where we had relatives who owned a bakery and pastry shop. When new employees ...

A Deadly Game at Chernobyl

The Winter 1991 issue of the University of Pacific Review offers a chilling description of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster:

There were two electrical ...

The Gift of Freedom

The greatest gift which God in His bounty bestowed in creating, and the most conformed to His own goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the ...