Tarp and Brick Demonstrate Our Earthly and Heavenly Bodies

Text: "For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down, we will have a home in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself ...

Missing Extreme Makeover Has Tragic Consequences

A lawsuit filed against the producers of the hit TV show Extreme Makeover begins with the line, "Deleese Williams is considered ugly." The remaining ...

Supermodel Swaps Body

As a supermodel, Tyra Banks is used to the stares of others and the snap of camera shutters every time she steps out in public. But in 2005 she experienced ...

Woman Discovers God in the Midst of Suffering

Scott Larson tells the story of a woman who discovered God in the midst of her suffering.

Annette and her husband were missionaries in Western Europe when ...

Disabled Woman a Metaphor of the Church

In his book Disappointment with God, Philip Yancey offers a powerful metaphor for the church:

I have a bright, talented, and very funny friend in Seattle ...

Halle Barry Says Beauty Is Meaningless

Interviewed for the opening of her film Catwoman, actress Halle Barry, one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People, commented on physical beauty. ...

Girl Honored to Be God's Temple

Flannery O'Connor's short story A Temple of the Holy Ghost tells of a precocious 12-year-old girl and two country boys who have come to court ...

Human Life Is a Statistical Improbability

In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson marvels at what makes up human life:

No one really knows, but there may be as many as a million types ...

Expensive Makeovers Are Only Skin Deep

Extreme makeovers are in. According to PlasticSurgery.org, in 2020 (the latest year for which statistics are available) there were 15.6 million cosmetic ...

Prayer for the Sundown of Life

Robertson McQuilkin, president emeritus of Columbia International University, wrote in “Let Me Get Home Before Dark”:

It's sundown, Lord. ...