The Problem with Peacemakers

Peacemakers are honored insofar as they speak about peace as something already victoriously won that we can celebrate as part of our glorious past or ...

Companionship in the Lord Jesus

In Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness, Kathryn Greene-McCreight describes her tortured journey through ten years of ...

Yancey on God's Redemptive Work

Philip Yancey on the redemptive work of God:

I once was part of a small group with a Christian leader whose name you would likely recognize. He went through ...

Mother Gains New Perspective from 8-Year-Old's Scribbling

In his book Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret of More, author and pastor Mark Buchanan illustrates God's love through the story of Tracy. He writes: ...

Yancey Puts Pain in Perspective

On February 25, 2007, author and speaker Philip Yancey experienced a horrible car accident. In an article for Christianity Today, he describes the crash ...

Where Is the Church When It Hurts?

Author and speaker Philip Yancey writes:

One day a man said to me, "You wrote a book called Where Is God When It Hurts, right?"

"Yes."

Father Refuses to Allow Daughter to Come Home

Jamie Bartlet writes in an article in Marriage Partnership:

My husband, Mike, and I had been married only a few months. We'd just had one of our first ...

Paralyzed Football Player's Life of Faith

Darryl Stingley was declared dead in a Chicago hospital on April 5, 2007, after having been found unresponsive in his home. He was 55.

Stingley spent 29 ...

Tongue Piercing Is Source of Teen's Pain

Stefania Fraccalvieri now knows that tongue piercing costs a lot more than expected. Just after she had a metal stud put through her tongue—a popular ...

Yancey on Prayer and the Mystery of Life

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived. Prayer offers no ironclad guarantees—just the certain promise that we need not live ...