The Necessity of God's Wrath

The biblical doctrine of God's wrath is rooted in the doctrine of God as the good, wise and loving creator, who hates—yes, hates, and hates ...

Shaq Rejected at White House Gate

Some doors, like the front gate of the White House, are tough to walk through. The White House has one phalanx of security after another, and you simply ...

Will Willimon Learns Hard Truth at Funeral

Pastor Will Willimon writes:

Early in my ministry, I served a little church in rural Georgia. One Saturday we went to a funeral in a little country church ...

Buechner on the Coming Day of Judgment

Whenever we speak of the end times, our hearts often quicken—partly out of joy, yet also out of fear. To speak of end times is to speak of somewhat ...

How Elvis Taught Me That the First Will Be Last

Many years ago, our family lived in Memphis. One day our 16-year-old son was reading the local paper and saw that a movie about Elvis Presley was going ...

"What-to-Do-Before-You-Die" Author Dies

On August 17, 2008, Dave Freeman, co-author of the book 100 Things to Do Before You Die, died at age 47 from a head injury incurred in a fall at his home. ...

Someone Is Watching

Syndicated New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, a keen observer of world trends, devoted a recent column to the idea that technology has made everyone ...

Sins We Excuse

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. —G. K. Chesterton. ...

The Inescapable

In The Divine Intruder, James R. Edwards recounts this story:

Wilmer McLean was a small farmer in the Shenandoah Valley in 1861. In the spring of that ...

Scared Not to Witness

Ethiopian Negussie Tameru was a gun-wielding bandit at the age of 18. Eventually he killed someone and spent six years in prison. Once set free, he went ...