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On the evening of September 10, 1960, sixty-nine runners lined up for the Olympic marathon in Rome. Among them stood Abebe Bikila, a twenty-eight-year-old member...
The flatterer operates with calculated self-interest, stripping the novice he has coaxed and living upon the deceived.
On September 10, 1960, Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia lined up for the Olympic marathon in Rome with no shoes on his feet. The other runners...
In Peter Jackson's *The Return of the King*, there is a moment that stops audiences cold. Aragorn has just been crowned King of Gondor. The...
In December 1938, twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton cancelled a skiing holiday in Switzerland. His friend Martin Blake had invited him to Prague instead, where...
The seeds of alteration are everywhere sown, yet by strange deception, each man believes himself exempt from this universal law.
As we reflect on Jeremiah 29:11, we are reminded that God has a plan for each of us—a plan filled with hope and purpose. This assurance is not just a distant promise; it calls us into a daily practice of...
As we reflect on humility within the context of our church life, we turn to Hebrews 11:1: “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” This scripture invites us into a...
Rich Mullins wrote *Awesome God*, one of the most recognizable worship songs of the last forty years. It filled arenas. It sold millions of records....
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision many colleagues thought was foolish. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed the Hubble...
In 1964, two radio astronomers at Bell Labs in New Jersey — Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson — pointed a large horn antenna at the...
In the 1630s, a young Rembrandt van Rijn painted himself draped in velvet and gold chains, posing like nobility, his eyes bright with ambition. He...
The wisest person must contemplate two humbling truths: his knowledge against what remains unknown, and his knowledge against what he ought to have learned.
This creature of supreme power teaches four vital lessons, as expounded by R.
"And Hezekiah was glad of them." Yet this gladness masked a catastrophic error in judgment.
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...
When Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed Google's original PageRank algorithm at Stanford in the late 1990s, they built it on a counterintuitive principle. A...
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...
For fifty years, Nicholas Winton said nothing. In the winter of 1938-1939, the young British stockbroker had traveled to Prague and organized the rescue of...
In July 2016, Tim Duncan retired from the NBA after nineteen seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. He had won five championships, two league MVP...
The first fault—measuring oneself by oneself—springs from three sources.
The Wisdom writer distinguishes between antagonism as an inherent principle—designed by Elohim to position us against evil and the enemies of God—and antagonism as mere destructive habit.
On December 10, 1996, in Stockholm's Concert Hall, the Polish poet Wisława Szymborska received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy honored her for...
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...