Leader Turns Graffiti Vandals into Artists

In the early 1980s the city of Philadelphia had a huge problem with graffiti. The mayor established the Anti-Graffiti Network, committed to combatting ...

Names Shape People's Destinies

NYU professor Adam Alter has observed the power names have to shape destiny. The technical name is "nominative determinism," which literally ...

Even the Alaskan Permafrost Can Be Fruitful

This illustration comes farm-fresh … all the way from Alaska. Tim Meyers is a farmer in Alaska, where the soil is rich, but frozen. Conventional ...

Father and Son Restore a Beautiful Old Car

Editor's Note: The following is a fictitious story but it's a beautiful way to illustrate God's work to restore his fallen creation or his ...

South African Church Offers Praise in the Midst of Tragedy

In his talk entitled "The Sense of an Ending," Jeremy Begbie tells a story about attending a worship service in a poor South African township. ...

Joni Eareckson Tada Longs for Her New Body

In her book, A Place of Healing, author Joni Eareckson Tada reflects on "normal": "Relief from chronic pain—even though I remain ...

C.S. Lewis on the Wonder of Our Resurrected Bodies

In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul emphasizes that we will be given new bodies. In his book The Great Divorce, a fictional look at Christian perceptions of life ...

Choosing Junction City, Kansas, Over Disney World

My pastor decided to pull a vacation surprise on his four children. "We're going to Junction City, Kansas," Peter told them. "It's ...

Death of Friend Helps Philip Yancey See Easter in New Light

Philip Yancey writes in "The Great Reversal”:

After years of urban living had ground down my childhood love of nature, I found it suddenly rekindled ...

God Brings Good out of Evil

The omnipotent God, primal power of the world, being himself supremely good, could not permit anything evil in his works, were he not so all-powerful ...