Expensive Truffle Oil Has No Truffles in It

Nothing boosts the prestige of a food or beverage like the perception that it is traditional, hand-picked, fresh, or otherwise limited in production. ...

Seeing One Bad Dentist Shouldn't Deter You from All Dentists

In his book Witness Essentials, Daniel Meyer tells the story of meeting a man named Gary who had grown up in a harsh, legalistic Christian home.

On several ...

Worshipping with People We Didn't Hand-Pick

Writer and NPR commentator Heather King, a recovering alcoholic who has come to faith in Christ, reflected on her initial experience with the church:

My ...

Alleged Stradivarius Is Merely an Imitation

In an episode of the History Channel's reality show about a Las Vegas pawn shop, a man brought in a violin and asked for an appraisal. According to ...

Keeping Consistent Testimony

Ben Patterson writes in Leadership:

Sam Shoemaker told of a near-sighted professor who was an expert in entomology. His office walls were covered with ...

Saying What Sells

In the classroom setting of one Peanuts comic strip, on the first day of the new school year, the students were told to write an essay about returning ...

Confession Dispells Lies

For him who confesses, shams are over, and realities have begun.

Capturing the Worst Criminal

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realized exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and ...

Living As We Preach

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves first, that you be that which you persuade your hearers to be, and believe that which you persuade them to believe. ...

Practicing What You Preach

I have to make a disclaimer right at the beginning. I have to tell you that I'm a phony. It's terrible living with yourself after you give a good ...