John Wooden's Individual Achievement

Legendary basketball coach John Wooden turned 90 on October 14, 2000. The Wizard of Westwood led his UCLA men's basketball teams to ten national championships—seven ...

Leaders: How Confident?

In the movie U-571, actor Matthew McConaughey plays Lt. Andrew Tyler, a World War II naval officer assigned to a U.S. submarine on a mission to capture ...

Newspaper Admits Errors

One of England's major newspapers, The Guardian, carries a daily confessional column called "Corrections and Amplifications." Edited by ...

Humility Defined

What is humility? It is that habitual quality whereby we live in the truth of things: the truth that we are creatures and not the Creator; the truth that ...

Jesus from Heaven to Earth

Author and pastor Leith Anderson writes:

Several years ago I was visiting Manila and was taken, of all places, to the Manila garbage dump and saw something ...

Lewis and Clark: Small Beginnings

In 1804, Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to find the source of the Missouri River, and from there to discover a relatively ...

Loving God through Loving Others

From Saul Bellow's collection of traditional Jewish tales comes this story:

In a small Jewish town in Russia, there is a rabbi who disappears each ...

Humbled by God's Holiness?

The pastor walked into the church alone and felt an overwhelming sense of God's holiness. He went to the front, knelt down at the altar rail, and ...

Pascal's Vision

"Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was one of the leading scientists and mathematicians of his age," writes scholar J. M. Cohen in his introduction ...

Boasting in God

Ramon Piaguaje, a Secoya Indian born and raised in the rain forest of Ecuador, won the Winsor & Newton Millennium Art Competition, the largest painting ...