"Gladiator": The Eternal Consequences of Our Actions

In the movie Gladiator, the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) prepares to go to battle against a barbarian Germanic tribe. Just prior ...

"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade": Taking a Step of Faith

In the film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Harrison Ford plays Indiana Jones, a daring archeologist who travels the world in search of treasures. ...

J. R. R. Tolkien Notes How Good Foils Evil

Author J. R. R. Tolkien once wrote in a letter:

"No man can estimate what is really happening at the present. All we do know, and that to a large ...

Two Perspectives on the Normandy Invasion

June 6, 1994, was the 50th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, which began the historic World War II battle to liberate continental Europe ...

"The Matrix": Unseen Reality

In the science fiction movie, The Matrix, the real world has been taken over by computers that keep humans in bondage by creating a false reality in their ...

God's Will at Work

In December, 1958, I came to America from Germany on the USS Butner, a transport ship. After we left Bremerhafen we passed through the North Sea into ...

Running toward Unseen Goal

United States runner Marla Runyon has been legally blind for 22 years. Even so, she competed in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. In ...

Astounding Faith

Our faith is an astounding thing--astounding that I should believe him to be the Son of God who is suspended on the cross, whom I have never seen, with ...

Seeing the Fish Jump

I remember a time when I was waiting for soon to become now. I went down to a little lake where we live, and I sat there very early in the morning praying, ...

Cheering the Invisible Victory

On a balmy October afternoon in 1982, Badger Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin, was packed. More than 60,000 die-hard University of Wisconsin supporters were ...