2000 Years of Christians and Epidemics

Two of Jesus’ most famous teachings are “Love your neighbor as yourself” and “Greater love has no man than this, that he should ...

God's Word: The Imperishable Seed

When Sarah Sallon moved back home to Israel, to her job at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, she went looking for medicinal plants which had helped ...

A Parent’s Job Is Never Done

There’s an old saying that says, “A parent’s job is never done.” Norma Brickey typifies that statement. Norma Brickey, 82, has ...

How Did Churches Respond to A Pandemic When Public Worship Was Banned?

I can imagine what the history books say: There was a global pandemic caused by a virus. The number of infected people grew daily. Officials recommended ...

The First Cryonically Preserved Human’s Fifty-Year Journey to Immortality

James Bedford was a psychology professor at the University of California. Prior to his death from cancer, Bedford expressed his desire to be cryogenically ...

17th Century Villagers Sacrificed Their Lives to Save Others

The need for quarantine today to contain the spread of the coronavirus has reminded historians of a certain small village named Eyam in 17th Century England. ...

Risking All in The Third Century Plague

When the world almost came to a standstill during the spread of the coronavirus, an example of true sacrifice comes to us from the third century: A group ...

Famous Author Revolted Against Death

In his book, Matthew Levering writes:

The famous American writer Susan Sontag died of cancer in 2004 at the age of 71. When her cancer returned after a ...

Physician Moved to Tears by Jesus' Advocacy for Children

In her book Confronting Christianity, Rebecca McLaughlin writes:

Paul Offit, a professor of pediatrics and vaccinology at the University of Pennsylvania, ...

Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Saved Lives

In the fall of 1943 German soldiers began rounding up Jews in Italy and deporting them by the thousands to concentration camps. Simultaneously a mysterious ...