"God Is a Party, and You're Invited"

Perhaps the best analogy for the Trinity is a time when you experienced a community of love. Maybe a family when it was at its most healthy and loving. ...

Being Afraid of the Light

If there is a terror about darkness because we cannot see, there is also a terror about light because we can see. There is a terror about light because ...

The Problem with Peacemakers

Peacemakers are honored insofar as they speak about peace as something already victoriously won that we can celebrate as part of our glorious past or ...

A Gospel of Easy Love

We could not bear to live in a world where wrong is taken lightly and where right and wrong finally make no difference. Spare me a gospel of easy love ...

Mother Reproves Actor

Everybody needs somebody who's willing to deflate their egos from time to time—even movie stars like Denzel Washington. Once Washington 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) ...

Man Returns Stolen Boomerang

While visiting Mount Isa, Australia, in 1983, an American man stole a boomerang from a local art museum. Twenty-five years later, he returned it with ...

Changed Tax Rule Forces Honesty

In their book Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner explain how a simple change to U. S. tax rules in 1987 exposed the depth of the public's ...

Bluegills Used As Early Detectors of Toxins

A new, highly efficient system is being used by San Francisco and New York City to detect the presence of toxins in a city's water supply, a possible ...

The Benefits of a Small Community

According to economist Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics, being part of a community where others know us does influence behavior. The proof is in ...