Cancelled Wedding Inspires Feast For The Needy

An El Dorado Hills, California family overcame their own emotional turmoil to turn a canceled wedding into a special event for approximately 100 less ...

IRS Agent Serves as a Parable of the Church

Christian leader Mark Labberton relates a personal story about when he had a seemingly unsolvable problem with the IRS. Labberton writes:

After several ...

The Church Is Like a Bad High School Band

Earl Palmer, an author and former pastor, once countered critics who rail against the church for its hypocritical, scandalous, and often irrelevant footprint ...

Preaching Prepared a Man to Die

During the last days of the Third Reich, as Allied bombs rained down on Stuttgart and the Nazi terror writhed in its final death throes, Helmut Thielicke ...

Pulitzer-Prize Winner Annie Dillard on Witnessing

If you've been a Christian awhile you know that we're supposed to share our faith. But that's where things get dicey. In her book Teaching ...

Thieving Treasure Hunter Captured in Florida

A treasure hunter accused of cheating his investors out of their share of one of the richest hauls in U.S. history—$50 million in gold bars and ...

College Leader Tells Skeptic, 'Watch Me'

As an under-graduate, theologian/author D.A. Carson co-led an evangelistic Bible study. He confessed that whenever he felt out of his depths, he would ...

Mailman Hoards 2,500 Pounds of Mail

Everyone knows that a letter carrier has one job—deliver the mail. Apparently a Brooklyn mailman spent a decade avoiding his job by intentionally ...

Why Doctors Need Stories

A few years ago a doctor took to The New York Times to share his disgust with the loss of storytelling in medicine. Peter Kramer says, "The inclusion ...

Taco Bell's Tricky Language

Dan Jurafsky, a professor of linguistics at Stanford, revealed in a recent interview some interesting ways that Taco Bell uses language in their menus: ...