Loving God through Loving Others

From Saul Bellow's collection of traditional Jewish tales comes this story:

In a small Jewish town in Russia, there is a rabbi who disappears each ...

Hungering for God

"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling ...

Eternal Life: The Next Great Chapter

On the final page of the final book of The Chronicles of Narnia, some of the children who have been to Narnia lament that they once again must return ...

Rocker Scott Stapp's Spiritual Struggles

In a Spin interview, Scott Stapp, the lead singer of Creed, discusses the impact his strict religious upbringing has had on his life:

"I tell you, ...

Zig Ziglar Finds God's Comfort

Zig Ziglar writes:

The longest 24 hours of my life were those after my daughter's death. When making the funeral arrangements with her husband and ...

Princess Diana's Favorite Hymn

A little-known hymn by Cecil Spring-Rice called "I Vow to Thee My Country" was a lifetime favorite of Diana, Princess of Wales. She requested ...

Can't Take It with You

In All Is Calm, Donna Schaper writes:

There we were, two twenty-eight-year-olds in love, on the rim of the Grand Canyon on New Year's Eve. As we watched ...

Keep Your Fork

A woman was diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. As she was getting her things in order, she contacted her pastor ...

Heaven Is for Those Who Want It

We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that a ...

Heaven Can Wait

When my five-year-old granddaughter returned home from a day at Children's Crusade, her brother asked her why she didn't go up to the altar when they ...