New Insight into the Cultural Benefits of Missions

In her novel The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver's main character is a missionary to Africa named Nathan Price. According to one review of the ...

Coach John Wooden Learned Gentle Leadership from Dad

Robert Morgan relates a story from the life of John Wooden, one of the most revered coaches in the history of college basketball, who credited much of ...

A Son Learns About Faith Watching His Father Die

Writer David Briggs offers a moving meditation on what he learned from his father's example. David's father was an ordinary man who lived an ordinary ...

The Cross Was the Epitaph of Jesus

Epitaphs are a powerful thing. What is said about us when we die is a window into how we lived our lives and what we think was most important. Ludolph ...

5,000-Year-Old Lunch Box Emerges from the Ice

There is a bit of good news about global warming, at least according to archeologists. As the glaciers recede, they are releasing some of the human artifacts ...

Old Trees don't Get Taller, They Bulk Up like a Bodybuilder

Old trees may not grow taller every year, but they do keep bulking up—like a human bodybuilder. That's the summary of recent research into the ...

Top CEO Dies Clutching Magazine that Featured Him

Colman Mockler is considered today as the model of an effective CEO. A Harvard Business School graduate with an MBA, he had gone to work for Gillette ...

Clint Eastwood Admits His Regrets

In an interview with Esquire, the actor and film director Clint Eastwood and his son Scott both agreed that they never look back on life. When Esquire ...

God Uses the Young but Saves His Best Work for the Mature

Os Guinness argues that God can use and has used people in their youth, but God also has accomplished some of his best work through people more advanced ...

Parents' Gift to Their Son: Two Message Stones

Os Guinness writes in “Impossible People”:

I grew up in a China that had been ravaged by two centuries of European and American adventuring, ...