In Douglas Adam’s A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a supercomputer named Deep Thought was asked to answer the ultimate question of the meaning life. After...

The background on my computer is a Hubble shot of the Sombrero Galaxy. The first time I looked at it, I almost burst into tears. The astonishing beauty is on...

American writer Anne Dillard told a powerful story, a true story, about an Eskimo woman, an Algonquin, who lived in the Arctic with her infant. Wrote Dillard...

In the 1990s, signs and bumper stickers had appeared in Brooklyn and Israel that read Moshiach Now. Moshiach is Yiddish for Messiah. These Orthodox Jews thou...

Alex Rosenberg’s The Atheist’s Guide To Reality has to be the purest, most fundamentalist tome on materialistic atheism since Lucretius’ On the Nature of Thi...

In a book called The Last Train to Hiroshima, Charles Pellegrino wrote about a newly married Japanese man who, somehow, survived the Hiroshima bombing though...

For most of human history, information was scarce. And it travelled no faster than horseback or what the wind could carry across water. In the War of 1812, f...

As Seventh-day Adventists, our great hope is found in the promised resurrection at the end of time: “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a sho...

Thousands of years ago the prophet Isaiah mocked those who used wood for various mundane purposes, and then made idols out of what was left: He burns half of...

The late Christopher Hitchens, a sharp critic of religion, had written about finding a meaning and purpose to life apart from God: “There are the beauties of...

During World War II in the Pacific, thousands of prisoners of war were forced by their captors to work on the Burma-Siam railway line that the Japanese were ...

A man in India sued his parents. A follower of anti-natalism, which teaches that it’s morally wrong for people to procreate because to be born means to suffe...

Who, pulling into the gas station to fill up, hasn’t, seeing the lottery sign for the current jackpot (60 million? 234 million? whatever) fantasized about wh...

Most professional writers would have loved to have traded places with American William Styron (1925-2006). Having published his first novel in his mid-twenti...

In 1895, German engineer Wilhelm Roentgen discovered invisible rays that could penetrate material objects that human eyes couldn’t. Though taken for granted ...

Author Philip Caputo, in his memoir about serving in Vietnam, wrote about his idealism in wanting to respond to John F. Kennedy’s famous phrase, “Ask not wha...

Imagine the following story: a child is kidnapped and the parents pay a huge ransom to the kidnappers. Only one problem: After paying the demands, the parent...

An incredible story came out of Hiroshima after the atomic bombing. A schoolteacher named Arai was standing by the classroom window, looking at the children ...

Perhaps the British super-group Supertramp expressed it best: There are times when all the world’s asleep, The questions run too deep, For such a simple man....

Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amid his difficult and tormented existence, once wrote the following based on his experience in a Tsarist prison camp wher...