Success in Modern Society

Carol Burnett says that when she was a girl, she joked and clowned around just to get over the fear of not being liked, because she was poor and not very ...

Earthly Kingdoms Always Perish

Several years ago the noted British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge was a guest at a breakfast in Washington, D.C. ... When he had finished his testimony, ...

The Real Source of Happiness

Occasionally on the news, they will have an expose of the happiness industry. These are people who, for a fee, of course, will help you be happy. For ...

God in Our Image

In the classic Your God is Too Small, J.B. Phillips says we tend to give God many names which aren't actually his names: managing director, puppeteer, ...

Slogan or Message?

We must be aware of trivializing the gospel, of presenting it in a form that compromises the radicality of its message. If someone is used to seeing or ...

The Love of Money in America

No stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American ...

Avoid the Cactus

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

Forgetting the Point of It All

Max De Pree tells a wonderful story, and he swears that it's true, about those wonderful tomato growers in central California. More successful at ...

March Celebrations

Did you know that March is National Noodle Month?

It's true. It's also National Frozen Food Month, National Peanut Month, and, to top it all off, National ...

At the Awkward Age

Christians are in an awkward intermediate stage in Western culture: having once been culturally established, they are not yet clearly disestablished. ...