The Agonizing Torture of Christ's Crucifixion

In the book The Life of Christ this is how Frederick Farrar describes crucifixion.

A death by crucifixion seems to include all that pain and death can ...

Grieving Son Comforted by One Who Understood His Pain

When I was in high school my father passed away rather suddenly. It was just two days before my high school graduation. At that time in my life I was ...

Italian Author Prefers a Bloodless Christ

When Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ was released in Italy, the review board gave it a "G" rating. Some parents objected, saying ...

Maximilian Kolbe Dies for Another

In February 1941, Father Maximilian Kolbe was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz. He was a Polish Monk who founded a Franciscan order near ...

Slain Missionary Expected to Suffer for Christ

Missionary Karen Watson counted the cost of following Jesus. That's why she left a letter with her pastor before going to Iraq. She went to provide ...

Grandfather's Last Words Gave Jesus Credit

One fall afternoon, my grandfather was at home with my grandmother and heard a knock on the door. The visitor was a neighbor lady who said to my grandfather, ...

Mysterious Congo Missionary Deaths

The daughter of missionaries to the Congo Republic told Pastor Leith Anderson this story: As a little girl, she participated in a daylong rally to celebrate ...

Mel Gibson on the Resurrection of Jesus

"Without the resurrection, our faith is dead. The story's not complete without it."

—Director Mel Gibson, explaining why The Passion ...

Sinclair Lewis's Ashes Swept Up off the Floor

February 7 is the day Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885 at Saulk Center, Minnesota.

Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. His best known works ...

"Gladiator": The Eternal Consequences of Our Actions

In the movie Gladiator, the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) prepares to go to battle against a barbarian Germanic tribe. Just prior ...