Super-Villains: Good Theology, Bad Solution

A series of contemporary superhero movies present super bad guys who at times demonstrate a biblical view of sin but the wrong cure for our sin. These ...

The Church Is Like a Bad High School Band

Earl Palmer, an author and former pastor, once countered critics who rail against the church for its hypocritical, scandalous, and often irrelevant footprint ...

Church Gives Prostitutes a Second Chance

The Huffington Post ran a beautiful story about a church in Honolulu called Bluewater Mission. This small church started a restaurant called Seed, which ...

A Surprise Invitation to Baseball Hall of Fame

Skye Jethani uses the following personal story to illustrate the beauty of God as a Trinity, a party of love and goodness and power:

Have you ever found ...

Man Tries to Outspend His Gift Card

John Zahl writes in "A Gift (Certificate) That Never Expires”:

A few years ago, a friend and the owner of a local high-end department store ...

Freed Soldiers Learn to Trust Rescuer's Voice

On January 28, 1945, as World War II was groaning to a close, 121 elite Army Rangers liberated over 500 POWs, mostly Americans, from a Japanese prisoner ...

N.T. Wright Illustrates the Good News of the Gospel

Imagine that you are sitting quietly in a café with a couple of friends when suddenly the door bursts open and in rushes a stranger with a wild, ...

Samuel Johnson's Failed New Year's Resolutions

In 1738, the literary giant Samuel Johnson wrote in his diary: "Oh Lord, enable me to redeem the time which I have spent in sloth." Nineteen ...

The Quiet but Deep Influence of Jesus' Life

In some ways, our biggest challenge in gauging Jesus' influence is that we take for granted the ways in which our world has been shaped by him. For ...

Why Doctors Need Stories

A few years ago a doctor took to The New York Times to share his disgust with the loss of storytelling in medicine. Peter Kramer says, "The inclusion ...