"The Lord of the Rings": The Least Becomes Greatest

In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Christian author J. R. R. Tolkien portrays the classic conflict between good and evil set in a mythical ...

Teddy Roosevelt's Humility Before Creator

President Theodore Roosevelt's love of the outdoors is well documented. He was responsible for the creation of several national parks and monuments. ...

Learning to Heed Rebuke

In the earliest days of my ministry, I cultivated the habit of meeting with our board chairman every Monday morning to gain his perspective on how things ...

Sammy Sosa's Unselfishness

On August 11, 2002, the Chicago Cubs were at Coors Field playing the Colorado Rockies. Although the Cubbies had no chance of making the playoffs, their ...

Companionship of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan

On the advice of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the parents of Helen Keller sent for a teacher from the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

Olympian's Kindness Earns Medal

The rarest medal in the Olympics wasn't created from gold, but a bolt.

The story begins on a cold, winter afternoon in Innsbruck at the 1964 Olympic ...

Serving by Cleaning Shoes

The late Dawson Trotman, founder of The Navigators, was visiting Taiwan on one of his overseas trips. During the visit he hiked with a Taiwanese pastor ...

Hidden, Humble Servants

In The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton comments that good people are usually hidden. I'm convinced he's right.

What convinced me was a woman ...

Ministry Means Problems

One big demoralizer in ministry is not having enough people to do the work. A few years ago at Leadership journal, we'd been short-staffed for three ...

Incurable Sin

My sin was all the more incurable because I did not think myself a sinner.