Habits Skew Moral Judgment

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right….Time makes more converts than reason.

Hitter Ted Williams Senses Weight of Bats

Ted Williams, the last baseball player to hit better than .400 in a season, died [in July 2002] at the age of 83. "There is no joy in Red Sox nation, ...

Woman Tells Man He's Going to Hell

A drunken man got on the bus late one night, staggered up the aisle, and sat next to a woman who was clutching a Bible.

She looked the wayward drunk up ...

Rome's Fire Foreshadows Judgment

Fire is often used as a symbol of God's judgment in the Bible. And for good reason. The ancient world understood fire as a terrible destructive force. ...

Season of Grace

Unlike other countries that have a pay-as-you-use toll system on major roads, Switzerland expects drivers using its autoroute system to pay an annual ...

The Bear and the Atheist

An atheist was walking through the woods, admiring all the "accidents" that evolution had created. "What majestic trees! What powerful ...

Mistaking Grace for License

D. A. Carson, a professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, used to meet with a young man from French West Africa for the purpose of practicing ...

What Can the Guilty Say?

While a seminary student at Regent College I had an assignment to attend and report on churches in various worship traditions outside my own. One evening ...

Augustine: Pursuing Justice

As the Roman Empire became Christianized, church leaders were assigned increasing civic responsibilities. By Augustine's time, Roman law empowered ...

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 ...