Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

One hundred decoys were placed on the Izu islands of Japan to attract endangered albatrosses and encourage them to breed. For more than two years, a 5-year-old ...

Home Mission Field

We have a real problem in this country when it comes to values. We have become the kind of societies that civilized countries used to send missionaries ...

The Peril of Lesser Goals

I asked a preacher, "How are you getting along?" He said, "We are living in idolatry--just sitting around admiring our new church. We have ...

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.

The Meaning of Worship

Worship is pulling our affections off our idols and putting them on God.

Substitutes for God

People repeatedly will choose substitutes for God.

Bad Influences

When I was a little girl my mother would often say to me, "Edith, I know just who you've been playing with today." She knew because I had ...

Luther on the Ten Commandments

The First Commandment: Thou shalt have no other gods before me. What does this mean? Answer: We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things.

The ...

Creating What Destroys Us

In The Wounded Healer, Henri Nouwen retells a tale from ancient India: Four royal brothers decided each to master a special ability. Time went by, and ...

Sport as Religion

"Sport is America's newest and fastest-growing religion, far outdistancing whatever is in second place," says Charles S. Prebish, associate ...