POW Camp Survivor on Difference Between Optimism and Faith

Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great, interviewed Admiral Jim Stockdale, the highest-ranking officer in the Hanoi Hilton prisoner of war camp during ...

Seeking to Prove God's Existence

Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks writes of his religious experience:

There had been some religious feeling, of a childish sort, in the years before ...

Gun No Match for Rabbi's Faith

A story is told about Rabbi Joseph Schneerson, a Hasidic leader during the early days of Russian Communism. The rabbi spent much time in jail, persecuted ...

Unbelief Confirms the Truth

Bob Morey, who had an apologetics ministry in Southern California (d. 2019), was once asked by an aggressive atheist to prove the Bible's truthfulness. ...

"Contact": Searching for God

Contact is a science fiction movie that explores the possibility of extraterrestrial life and the inevitability of faith even in a world governed by scientific ...

C. S. Lewis Argues Against Atheism

C. S. Lewis said that if there is no intelligence behind the universe, then nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. Thought is merely the ...

Miracle Baby Defies the "Facts"

The doctor told Marsha Mark and her husband they needed to accept the fact they would never have biological children.

Amid the discouragement, Marsha clung ...

God Empowers

A story is told of a town where all the residents are ducks. Every Sunday the ducks waddle out of their houses and waddle down Main Street to their church. ...

Ex-Evangelist Misses Jesus

In the late 1940s, Charles Templeton was a close friend and preaching associate of Billy Graham. He effectively preached the gospel to large crowds in ...

Debt-Ridden Couple Learns to Give First to God

In a sermon on giving, Dave Ferguson, pastor of Community Christian Church in Naperville, Illinois, read this letter from Jeff and Julie, who attend the ...