Former Royal Sarah Ferguson Aims to Get Herself Right

Sarah Ferguson is an English ex-royal. Commonly called "Fergie" and well known to readers of tabloids, the red-haired former Duchess of York ...

The Three Stages of Faith in Christ

Theologian Alister McGrath outlines the following three stages of receiving what Christ did for us on the cross:

[First], I may believe that God is promising ...

Learning to Hear Is a Gradual Process

Theologians use a phrase to talk about how Christ-followers are already redeemed but will not experience the fullness of redemption until they live with ...

"Born Again" in Binumarien?

When translator Des Oatridge, working in Papua New Guinea, came to the words "born again" in John's Gospel, he asked his native co-translator ...

Jail Becomes Luxury Hotel

Boston's Charles Street jail used to be home to the city's most notorious characters. Among its former inmates was Frank Abagnale, Jr., the con ...

Eugene Peterson on Resurrection's Difficulty

The do-it-yourself, self-help culture of North America has so thoroughly permeated our imaginations that we don't give much sustained attention to ...

Blind Man Needs to Be "Born Again" to See

In a book titled, An Anthropologist on Mars, neurologist Oliver Sacks tells about Virgil, a man who had been blind from early childhood. When he was 50, ...

Senior Citizen Mistaken for Dead

On March 19, 2005, when a resident at an extended care facility in British Columbia, Canada, died, the medical personnel did what they usually did. They ...

Perfume Doesn't Transform Barbarians

In a TV commercial by one credit card company Capital One, a couple is making a purchase in a shopping center. When the clerk tells how much it will cost, ...

"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers": Redemption

The Two Towers is the second installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In order to save Middle Earth from the forces of evil, Frodo and Sam must take ...