Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Freedom

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Woman Wants God but Not Morality

Philip Yancey wrote of a friend of his named Susan, a Christian who told Yancey "that her husband did not measure up and she was actively looking ...

Emperor Nero Exemplifies Depravity Apart from God

Among Emperor Nero's many immoral acts were the public banquets he offered for the people of Rome. The Roman historian Tacitus (A.D. 56-120) described ...

Elton John on Boundaries

Pop singer Elton John told the German magazine Amica:

I am gay and wouldn't want to be heterosexual for all the money in the world….I've ...

Seared Conscience

During my college years—in my infinite wisdom—it occurred to me that it made no sense to stop at red traffic lights when there was clearly ...

This Is Progress?

Traveling from Paris to Boston made me sharply aware of the contrast between the great advancements in technology and the primitive quality of human relationships. ...

Crime Has Become Entertainment

We live in a strange society where we make documentaries of serial killers, movie idols out of organized crime members, authors out of political crooks, ...

God's Richter Scale

I think we are now living in the very decade when God may thunder his awesome "paradidomai" (I abandon, or I give [them] up) (Romans 1:24) ff.) ...

Start Small

Ask yourself what you would have done if you had inherited New York City five or ten years ago. Crime was out of control and more than half of the citizens ...

What Do We Expect?

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by ...