Busy Pastor Learns Hurry Destroys Souls

Pastor and author John Ortberg writes:

Not long after moving to Chicago, I called a wise friend to ask for some spiritual direction. I described the pace ...

Success Gave Executive a Hollow Feeling

A N. Y. Times article on people who are sick of too many hours at work tells the story of Diane Knorr, a former dot-com executive:

"The first time ...

Empty Success

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.

Lewis Smedes Finds God in English 101

In his autobiography, Dr. Lewis Smedes writes of his early years in the faith. A turning point came as a freshman at Calvin College. He writes:

The first ...

Brad Pitt on the American Dream

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, celebrity Brad Pitt reflected on his lead role in the movie Fight Club, which is about a man who has the ...

Man Witnesses amid Terror

Al Braca worked as a corporate bond trader. His office was on the 105th floor of Tower One in the World Trade Center. A week after the tower was hit and ...

Bringing Our Souls to Work

Tim J. McGuire, former editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, speaking at a seminar ...

How Good Executives Become Corrupt

Jim Collins, best-selling business author, writes about the crisis of business ethics in the wake of the bankruptcies at Enron and Worldcom. He describes ...

Sports Announcer Ernie Harwell Loves Christ More Than Baseball

In 1991, the new owners of the Detroit Tigers fired their 73-year-old play-by-play announcer, Ernie Harwell. The voice of the Tigers for three decades, ...

Stopping to Hear God Whisper His Love

Author Mike Yaconelli says:

I travel a lot, and I came to San Francisco one night and missed my connection back home. I was angry and upset, and I called ...