Nacho Libre is the story of a young priest, Ignacio, who must reconcile his love for wrestling with his duty to God and the orphanage in which he works. In this scene, Ignacio struggles with his desire to wrestle after watching a live lucha libre match (lucha libre is the Mexican professional wrestling circuit).

Ignacio (Jack Black) enters the kitchen where Sister Encarnacion is making breakfast.

"Ignacio," ...

In his book Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics, William Lane Craig observes how difficult it is for an atheist to live with the logical conclusions of his or her beliefs:

Unable to live in an impersonal universe in which everything is the product of blind chance, atheists sometimes begin to ascribe personality and motives to the physical processes themselves… For example, the ...

In a 2008 article for Psychology Today magazine, Hara Marano writes about the constant pressure girls face concerning their image. Deprived of an internal compass, girls compete to be "hottest," turning colleges into incubators for eating disorders and numerous unrealistic, self-imposed expectations.

But why?

Marano cites Courtney Martin, author of Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters. Martin believes ...

In his book Let Your Life Speak, Parker Palmer, a Quaker, tells the story of how God used Palmer's friends to shape his vocational path in a significant way. Palmer had been offered the opportunity to become the president of a small educational institution. He was certain the job was for him, but he honored the tradition of the Quaker community, which is to call on a dozen trusted friends to engage ...

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want."

—Irving Kristol (1920—), U.S. author

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That observation gave him a brilliant idea. He posted a giant mirror behind the front desk—and the customer tirades all but ceased. When people saw how rude and hateful they looked while yelling and screaming, they stopped yelling and screaming.

What is true physically is also true spiritually. Prayer provides a mirror for our attitudes. Through it, we begin to see our motives from a different ...

As a very little dust will disorder a clock, and the least sand will obscure our sight, so the least grain of sin which is upon the heart will hinder its right motion toward God.

—John Wesley, English theologian and early leader of Methodist movement (1703–1791)

A 2008 Fitness magazine poll of 1,000 women found that women are willing to take drastic steps to reach their ideal weight:

• Twenty-three percent would spend a week in jail.

• Twenty-three percent would shave their head.

• Twenty-two percent would wear a bikini on TV.

• Twenty-one percent would trade ten years of their life.

Bill White, Outreach Pastor of Emmanuel Reformed Church in Paramount, California, shares the following story:

My cousin Johnny took his family to a pool party this past August at a relative's house outside of Los Angeles. At one point, the guests were all taking a break from the pool and were milling around by the house, eating and talking. No one noticed when young Jack (age 5) and his sister Blaire ...

On December 9, 2007, Matthew Murray shot and killed Tiffany Johnson, 26, and Philip Crouse, 24, at a Youth With a Mission (YWAM) training center in the Denver suburb of Arvada. He later killed two at New Life Church in Colorado Springs…

Despite the deaths, YWAM is on track with its missions training program. Training for missions will begin once again in January, and not one of the 120 who signed ...