Britain's Ragtag Armada Accomplishes Remarkable Rescue

In The Word and Power Church, Doug Banister writes:

The spring of 1940 found Hitler's panzer divisions mopping up French troops and preparing for a ...

"The Two Towers": Good Worth Fighting For

The film, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, is about the future of peace on Middle-Earth. This peace is dependent upon the destruction of a ring, entrusted ...

"Pearl Harbor": Anxious to Matter

Pearl Harbor tells the story of two friends, Rafe (Ben Affleck) and Danny (Josh Hartnett), who survive the attack on Pearl Harbor and enter World War ...

Soldier Hears and Later Finds God

Roy Edgemon writes in The Ways of God:

While in Okinawa, Japan, I would end each radio ministry broadcast with an invitation to call in questions and requests. ...

Francis of Assisi's Disastrous Grasp at Glory

On a brisk November day in 1202, Assisi's militia marched through the city's streets. Knights sat proudly atop their steeds, citizens cheered, ...

Drafted to Be God's Agents

According to the book No Ordinary Time, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, the first peacetime draft occurred October 29, 1940. President Franklin Roosevelt and ...

Prisoner of War Finds Living Harder than Death

The obituary of Colonel Floyd J. Thompson said that for nine years he "endured cold cells, jungle cages, and torture in Vietnam, becoming the longest-serving ...

J. R. R. Tolkien on Evil and the Purposes of God

J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, made clear in his private writings he intended to proclaim a Christian message ...

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 ...

Soldier Reflects After Killing Enemy

On a mission in Honduras in the 1980s, Eric L. Haney and members of his elite counterterrorist unit surrounded some Cuban-trained guerrillas on a Honduran ...