Little Boy Just Wants to Go Home

First grade teacher, Linda, shares an interaction she had with one of her students on the first day of school. Accustomed to going home at noon in kindergarten, ...

When Technology Replaces Community

Stanley Hauerwas and Jean Vanier write in “Living Gently in a Violent World”:

Once when I was at the University of Notre Dame we had an extraordinary ...

Luis Palau Receives a Scripture to Stand on

Luis Palau, the Argentine-born international evangelist, describes how God expanded his ministry:

I was organizing campaigns for other evangelists, but ...

"Wall•E": Unprepared to Go Home

In many ways the Pixar's animated film Wall•E is a story about coming home. It tells the story of a lonely robot who for 700 years has been cleaning ...

The Jekyll and Hyde Nature of Motherhood

Nancy Ortberg, in her sermon "The Jekyll and Hyde of Motherhood”:

A transformation occurred in me with the birth of my children. I traded in ...

True Poverty

To help Americans understand poverty in its truest sense, Robert L. Heilbroner, a prominent U.S. economist, itemized the luxuries most U.S. citizens would ...

Resident Regrets Snap Judgment of Patient

Dr. Katrina Firlik was the first woman admitted into the neurosurgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her recent book, Another ...

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 ...

Living Life with Eyes Wide Open

Erwin Raphael McManus writes in The Barbarian Way:

We had an incident while Jet Skiing off the coast of Wellington [during our family vacation to New Zealand]. ...

Tollbooth Violations Offer a Lesson About Christ's Return

As we look at Christ's first coming this Christmas season, here's a story from CT editor Kevin Miller to help us keep in mind Christ's Second ...