The Healing Power of Forgiveness

Ronald Reagan's attitude after the 1981 attempt on his life made an impression on his daughter, Patti Davis: "The following day my father said ...

Worth Fighting For?

The Bishop of Assisi once said to St. Francis, "I think your life is too hard, too rough. You don't possess anything in this world." And ...

Defeating the Bully

In his book Fuzzy Memories, Jack Handey writes:

There used to be this bully who would demand my lunch money every day. Since I was smaller, I would give ...

Christians Justify Violence

The majority of Christians over 2,000 years have believed that violence may be justified under certain circumstances.

Submission Won't Stop Abuse

Christianity Today did an extensive study of battered Christian woman, and they found that two-thirds of these women believe that it was their Christian ...

Battered Wives in the Church

While Christian marriages have been shown to have a lower incidence of abuse, the tragic truth is that wife battering occurs in Christian homes as well. ...

More than Gun Control

Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the ...

Sources of Enthusiasm

Historians of American higher education note that in the last third of the nineteenth century two things happened when colleges introduced intercollegiate ...

Domestic Violence

They are legion, these victims. One out of every three women who seeks emergency medical treatment at a doctor's office or hospital is the victim ...