The Only Animal that Blushes

It was your great American wit, Mark Twain, who once said, “Man is the only animal that blushes, and the only animal that needs to.” We are ...

William Carey Converts

William Carey Converts: How a lukewarm Anglican became a fiery Baptist

Until age 14, William Carey later wrote, "l was addicted to swearing, lying, ...

A Humanist's Lament

Not long before she died in 1988, in a moment of surprising candour on television, Marghanita Laski, one of our best-known secular humanists and novelists, ...

Shutting the Door to the Past

The most vivid experience of that anguished prayer and its answer that I can recall came in the life of a young couple. ... They were a bright young couple, ...

Life after Innocence

Grief refuses to flee the past just because it is gone and things have now changed. .... Consider when we lose our innocence--when we discover that we ...

True Shame and False Shame

Shame is only partly about blameworthiness. Of course, we do feel ashamed of ourselves when we are guilty, and we should. Sin is, after all, a disgrace. ...

Guilt Exchange

Western culture has made a fundamental change in its religious base. We have exchanged that One who said, "I am the Truth" (John 14:6) for the ...

Peace with God

Without justification it is impossible to have real peace. Conscience forbids it. Sin is a mountain between a man and God, and must be taken away. The ...

An Underdeveloped Conscience

In Christian Parenting Today (Mar/Apr 98), Dan Schaeffer recalls:

As an 8-year-old, I thought it was comical. Our victim didn't know what was happening ...

You're Forgiven Already!

Garrison Keillor spins another tale:

"Larry the Sad Boy ... was saved 12 times in the Lutheran church, an all-time record. Between 1953 and 1961 he threw ...