Dedicated to Futility

"One of the things that really attracts me about mountaineering is its total pointlessness. So I've dedicated my life to it."

—Tom ...

An Ant’s Publishing Life

I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing. The world today and the history of the human anthill during the past five to seven years would ...

Being Filled and Feeling Empty

Lee Atwater, former Republican Party chairman, said this before he died: "(It’s all) about acquiring: wealth, power, and prestige. I know. ...

Spiritual Poverty of the West

The spiritual poverty of the Western world is much greater than the physical poverty of our people. You in the West have millions of people who suffer ...

No One to Thank

It is a terrible thing to be grateful and have no one to thank, to be awed and have no one to worship.

Many Faces of Grief

Author Edgar Jackson poignantly describes grief:

Grief is a young widow trying to raise her three children, alone. Grief is the man so filled with shocked ...

Where Are the Happy People?

Not long ago, as I was talking with one of my teenage sons, he recounted an experience he had on a commuter train outside of New York City. It seems he ...

Nothing in Common

Liberals are always talking about pluralism, but that is not what they mean. ... In public school, Jews don't meet Christians. Christians don't ...

Spectator Spirituality

Whenever I attend yet another church spectator event, I am reminded of A. W. Tozer's disdain and despair for "that strange thing--the program," ...

No Worlds to Conquer?

The twin aims that have animated mankind since the dawn of history are the conquest of nature and the conquest of drudgery. Now they seem in a fair way ...