Astronomers Spot Brightest Object in Universe

Astronomers have found the brightest known object in the universe—a glowing core of a galaxy, called a quasar, located 12 billion light-years away. ...

Hallowed Be Your Name

Musician and author Carolyn Arends shares a story in an issue of Christianity Today magazine:

On a recent trip, I had a conversation with a man who learned ...

NASA's Hefty Promise—a Thousand Years of Glory

Just weeks after American Scott Kelly returned from almost an entire year aboard the International Space Station, NASA announced that they are seeking ...

Actress Amy Schumer: Fame Isn't Fun

You'd think actress Amy Schumer might be enjoying her rapidly accelerating fame. But the comedienne took time Wednesday night to reflect on the downside ...

Pictures on Smartphones Can't Replace Real Life

For more than five hundred years the city of Florence has marked Easter with a wild ceremony called (in English) "the explosion of the cart." Four massive ...

Selfie Mania at a Baseball Game

Editor's Note: Here are two illustrations with basically the same theme. Use one or both of them.

This is the age of the selfie. People love to see themselves ...

Broken People Praying to a Broken Buddha

Pastor/author J.R. Vassar writes about ministering in Myanmar (Burma) and coming upon a broken Buddha:

One day we were prayer walking through a large Buddhist ...

The High Value on Becoming Famous

The drive to become famous is becoming a high value for many people in our culture. That's the conclusion of two social observers. In a recent (2014) ...

Reserve Player Shared in Michael Jordan's Glory

We do not simply want to see glory; we want to be a part of it. When we lived in Chicago, a friend of ours regularly gave us Bulls tickets. Every year ...

Fame Is the Highest Value on Preteen TV Shows

A 2011 paper by a team of psychologists at UCLA analyzed the values of characters in popular television shows for the past four decades. They evaluated ...