The Courage of a Child

In A Pretty Good Person, Lewis Smedes writes:

A federal judge had ordered New Orleans to open its public schools to African-American children, and the ...

Christ's New Math

The cross of Christ destroyed the equation religion equals happiness.

Working Like Cinderella

While trying to meet a writing deadline, I "hired" my teenage son to handle the housework.

"What do you want me to do today?" he asked one morning. I quickly ...

He Preached for Us

Martin Luther King, Jr., did not come preaching something new. He came shouting something we already knew: "You have said in your own Declaration ...

A Living Sacrifice

In "From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya" (Academie, 1983), Ruth Tucker writes about Dr. Eleanor Chestnut. After arriving in China in 1893 under the American ...

Readjusting Our Expectations

We ask less of this life because we know full well that more is coming in the next. The art of living with suffering is just the art of readjusting our ...

William Carey Converts

William Carey Converts: How a lukewarm Anglican became a fiery Baptist

Until age 14, William Carey later wrote, "l was addicted to swearing, lying, ...

Comforted by Their Presence

Ray and Judy Williamson's son, David, was killed in a fall at Red River Gorge several weeks ago. Speaking later, Ray said, "I used to wonder ...

The Sign of Pain

I had to have blood drawn at the doctor's office, and my five-year-old daughter, Mary, came along. When the nurse held up the needle, Mary never blinked. ...

Free Gift of Love

Love is ... a free gift. ... And it is most itself, most free when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death.