Sins We Excuse

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. —G. K. Chesterton. ...

"Lord of the Rings": Overcoming Adam in Us

In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Christian author J. R. R. Tolkien portrays the classic conflict between good and evil set in a mythical ...

Misbehaving Daughter Sees Need for Conversion

Ken Canfield writes in "The Heart of a Father”:

During a family vacation, Sarah got a little ornery and pushed Hannah.

"Did you push your ...

A Muslim in Need of a Savior

Author and pastor John MacArthur recalls this story:

I was flying down to El Paso to do a men's conference. I was working on some thoughts and had ...

Math Test Humbles the Brainiest Students

In Time Lev Grossman writes:

Every year on the first Saturday in December, twenty-five hundred of the most brilliant college students in North America ...

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 ...

Mensa Members Miss Easy Solution

Mensa is an organization whose members have an IQ of 140 or higher. A few years ago, there was a Mensa convention in San Francisco, and several members ...

Actor Jim Carrey on Hidden Pain

Actor and comedian Jim Carrey said: "If we all acted the way we really felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing." ...

Michelangelo's Unfinished Sculptures

Visitors to a museum in Rome might be struck by four partially finished sculptures. These were figures Michelangelo originally intended to use on the ...

Even Movie Moguls Die

"I do not intend to sell. I do not intend to retire. And I do not intend to die."

—Lew Wasserman, former chairman and chief executive of ...