Ten Things That Kill More People than Sharks

In 1973, 26-year-old director Steven Spielberg was hired to make a movie based on Peter Benchley's novel about shark attacks called Jaws. The movie was ...

Scene from 'Moneyball' Depicts Our Freedom in Christ

Moneyball begins with Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt) upset by his team's loss to the New York Yankees in the 2001 ...

Novelist Wendell Berry's Sketch of a Man Who Was Never Present

In his novel Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry describes a character from the fictional town of Port William named Ray Overhold, a quiet, smiling man who "was ...

We Want Our Mechanic and Our Doctor to Speak the Truth

Imagine picking your car up from the shop after a routine tune-up, and the technician says, "This car is in great shape. Clearly you have an automotive ...

Dragons Stalk the Unknown

Most people are afraid of the unknown. Those things we have never seen or experienced can seem overwhelming.

On the old maps, back before the world was ...

Chrysostom on Insulting People

We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.

— St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople and Church Father (349–407) ...

Abraham Lincoln Asks to Borrow Army

In the later months of 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was angered by General George B. McClellan's inactivity despite superiority ...

Christian Nurse Opposed Nazi Policy

The Discovery Channel aired "Selling Murder: The Killing Films of the Third Reich," a documentary on films found in archives after German reunification. ...

The Credit Goes to the One Who Tries

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit ...

Too Much Caution

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.