An Ant’s Publishing Life

I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing. The world today and the history of the human anthill during the past five to seven years would ...

Everything Under the Sun Counts

Frank Capra, who directed It's a Wonderful Life, was asked years ago about the central message of his classic film. After thinking a few moments, ...

Receiving the Gift of Life

Salvation isn't what liberals or conservatives in this country think it is. It's about getting my life straight. It's not about ultimate significance. ...

Delayed Recognition

On a plaque marking Abraham Lincoln's birthplace near Hodgenville, Kentucky, is recorded this scrap of conversation:

"Any news down t' the ...

You Are Never Too Small

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

Filling the Hunger for Significance

Two years ago, a woman in my audience wrote to invite me to visit her, if I could. A few weeks ago, I was in her home city, along with my teammate and ...

Jesus Tied for Fourth

Some years ago, the distinguished publishing house of Grosset & Dunlap brought together a panel of 28 educators and historians and asked them to select ...

Grassroots Movement

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from ...

One in a Million

Though you are one of the teeming millions in this world, and though the world would have you believe that you do not count and that you are but a speck ...