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In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton canceled a skiing holiday to visit Prague. What he found in the refugee camps changed everything. Jewish...
Rachel Held Evans once wrote that the Table is the great equalizer — the place where we stop performing and start belonging. Philippians 2:3-4 invites...
If only we possessed unbounded wealth, we imagine, how generously we would serve mankind.
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, we meet Bishop Myriel of Digne — a man who holds one of the most prestigious positions in his region...
"And Hezekiah was glad of them." Yet this gladness masked a catastrophic error in judgment.
The genuinely wise person possesses three defining characteristics: he pursues rational ends with deliberate purpose; he recognizes that true wisdom and moral goodness are inseparable; and he submits his pursuits to Divine direction rather than personal preference.
Thomas Merton once described a moment in his Louisville hermitage when he realized his hours of centering prayer had not made him holier than the...
In 1881, the great Princeton theologian B.B. Warfield — whose towering intellect defended the absolute inerrancy of Scripture against a generation of skeptics — did...
In 2008, surgeon Atul Gawande stood before the World Health Organization with an audacious claim: a simple two-minute checklist could prevent thousands of surgical deaths...
When a warrior marches forth in his own strength, saying "My right arm and my mighty sword shall secure victory," defeat approaches.
Alexander observes, this sin must be abjured both for its destructive effects and as the worst form of pride.
I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?" The prophet indicts a specific vice: descendants trafficking in their ancestors' glory while possessing none themselves.
In December 1995, Robert Williams, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, made a decision that baffled his colleagues. He pointed the Hubble...
By 1944, the Weihsien internment camp near Weifang, China, had stripped its prisoners down to almost nothing. Among the roughly 1,800 Allied civilians held by...
The seer of Patmos reveals a startling truth: every human heart has constituted itself a throne of judgment over others.
The prophet's rhetorical question—"Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?"—exposes the folly of the Assyrian king, who attributed his conquests entirely to his own skill and military might, ignorant that Yahweh wielded him as an instrument.
In the practice of centering prayer, there comes a moment Thomas Merton called "the point of nothingness" — that raw, undefended place where every title,...
Surrounded in open field by six hundred Philistine desperadoes bent on plunder and death—not cornered at Thermopylae where numbers meant nothing—he wielded only an oxgoad against overwhelming odds.
In bone marrow transplantation, something remarkable happens that mirrors the heart of Christian humility. Before a donor's marrow can save a recipient's life, the recipient...
In the spring of 2016, Kobe Bryant turned his final NBA season into a nationwide celebration. Every arena gave him a standing ovation. ESPN ran...
As I walked through the quiet woods near my home, I came across a small sapling bravely pushing its way through the rich, dark soil. It was a stark contrast to the towering oaks surrounding it, their branches swaying gracefully...
Exell's 1887 analysis reveals pride's devastating universality: it spares neither age nor circumstance, neither the healthy nor the diseased, neither public nor private life.
In 1989, a British computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN in Geneva. He created the protocols that...
In 1990, astronomer Carl Sagan convinced NASA to point Voyager 1's camera back toward Earth one last time. The probe had been traveling since 1977...