Madonna Warns About the Material World

In her 2005 documentary, I'm Going to Tell You a Secret, international pop star Madonna warned others about the evils and dangers of "the material ...

What if Sin Attacked Your Face?

A few years ago, Roche Pharmaceuticals began an aggressive advertising campaign promoting its prescription treatment for Hepatitis C. The ads featured ...

Teachers Re-label Failure

For some time, educators have faced accusations of "dumbing down" exams in order to compensate for increasingly poor student performances.

The ...

John Stott on Substitution

The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence ...

"The Magician's Nephew": Spiritual Blindness

Jesus is clear that it is dangerous to close one's ears, eyes, and heart to the leadings of the Holy Spirit. In The Magician's Nephew, a novel ...

Desert Father on Self-examination

They who are conscious of their own sins have no eyes for the sins of their neighbors.

—Abbot Moses (10th century)

Hemingway Defines Morality

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

—Novelist Ernest Hemingway (1899—1961)

Novelist Identifies the Human Condition

On the Bill Moyers PBS special Genesis, panelists from diverse religious backgrounds spoke to the issues raised in the first book of the Bible. After ...

Demons Are Attracted to the Garbage in Our Lives

As significant as demonic influence may be, it is never the primary issue in someone's life. It may be a deadly, destructive consequence or fruit, ...

"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" Illustrates Sin's Effect

In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the character, Edmund Pevensie, personifies gluttony, the sin of excessively using things in themselves legitimate, ...