University Professor Stands Up for His Faith

At age 26, Ken Elzinga joined the faculty of the University of Virginia. After a tenured colleague warned him that being explicit about his faith would ...

Doctors Work to Restore Patient's Heartbeat

A person is lying on a surgical table. It's the moment of crisis. Doctors and nurses are working frantically to save a life. But it's clear they ...

Jewish Woman Hears of the Suffering Yeshua

John Lennox (an author and professor of mathematics at Oxford University) tells a story about touring Eastern Europe and meeting a Jewish woman from South ...

Evangelism and Social Justice Should Both Get Our Attention

Editor's Note: Andy Crouch sets up the quote below with these two sentences: "These days I do not often meet Christians so passionate about evangelism ...

Swim Coach Sees the Needs in His Own City

For years, Doug Banister, a Christian from Knoxville, Tennessee, had taken mission trips to Romania. God had moved powerfully on those trips, but Doug ...

Churches in India Practice Radical Generosity

Churches in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram have a beautiful phrase to express the way they give to God—"Buhfai Tham.'" It ...

Marine Air Station Welcomes 'the Sound of Freedom'

The U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is located in Havelock, North Carolina, close to some of the Atlantic's most beautiful beaches. But ...

Act of Kindness Opens the Door for Ministry

In 1967 Doug Nicols was doing missions work in India when he contracted tuberculosis and was committed to a sanitarium for several months. In the TB sanitarium, ...

Doctor Lectures on Surgery as His Patient Dies

There's a scene in Herman Melville's (author of Moby Dick) novel White Jacket that focuses on the ship's chief surgeon, Cadwallader Cuticle, ...

Plane Passengers Rescue a Shipwrecked Man

It took a team effort to rescue one shipwrecked Aussie.

Mr. Glenn Ey, a 44-year-old Australian man, was lost at sea. What had been a relaxing two weeks ...