Running Out of Gas Plays Role in Several Crashes

Frank Allegretti, 64, was a meticulous pilot with more than twenty years of experience—which makes it all the more shocking to hear that he crashed ...

A.W. Tozer on the Irony of What We've Made of Christmas

Christ came to bring peace and we celebrate his coming by making peace impossible for six weeks of each year …. He came to help the poor and we ...

Being More Like Mary Than Martha at Christmastime

In Luke 10:38-42, Jesus decides to visit the home of a woman named Martha. When he arrives, he finds Martha distracted by all the tasks that come with ...

Resident Regrets Snap Judgment of Patient

Dr. Katrina Firlik was the first woman admitted into the neurosurgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her recent book, Another ...

Living Life with Eyes Wide Open

Erwin Raphael McManus writes in The Barbarian Way:

We had an incident while Jet Skiing off the coast of Wellington [during our family vacation to New Zealand]. ...

Medical Student Learns Valuable Lesson

In his book Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Atul Gawande recalls a patient he encountered during his final year of medical school. The older ...

Quickly Versus Deeply

Larry McMurtry, known for his [book] Lonesome Dove, wrote another book about roads—the many roads he had driven on and the hundreds of miles he ...

Dirty Windows

We need more transparency in the church, not fear of it. It's difficult for men and women alike to be transparent in an evangelical church. You put ...

Table-Talk Forbidden

Augustine encouraged conversation at meals--but with a strictly enforced rule that the character of an absent person should never be negatively discussed. ...

Slander a Sign of Youthful Arrogance

It is a sign of youthful arrogance to try to build up a reputation by assailing prominent figures.