August 3, 2020 - April Fools
American poet Edna St. Vincent Milay, probably having a bad day, wrote the following bit of poetry: Not only underground are the brains...
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July 27, 2020 - The “Glory” of Humanity?
Early in the last century, American author Thomas Wolfe wrote this tribute to his fellow species: “Yes, this is man, and it is impossible...
July 20, 2020 - Hardening of the Soul
“What were you doing,” wrote Anne Dillard, “on April 30, 1991, when a series of waves drowned 138,000 people? Where were you when you...
July 13, 2020 - Nonsense
A woman who taught creative writing to children dying of cancer had written: “The children I write with die,” she begins, “no matter how...
July 6, 2020 - The Death Thing
Elizabeth Wurtzel took the literary world by storm with her 1994 memoir, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, about, well,...
June 29, 2020 - Eternal Life or Eternal Death?
Brian Magee had been a well-known English author, music critic, and Member of Parliament. In his early thirties, he was suddenly...
June 22, 2020 - The Gospel
Someone once asked, “Is the universe friendly?” A good question, actually, if you think about it, because we are part of the universe and...
June 15, 2020 - Our Loving Father
Eight-year-old Sam, born out of wedlock, never met his father. One day he came home from school to his grandparent’s house. On the...
June 8, 2020 - In the Power of God
It’s amazing the gems that are hidden in the Word of God. Paul, in Corinthians, wrote that he came to them, not in fancy speech nor with...
June 1, 2020 - Knowing God
It’s one thing to know about God: that He exists, that He is powerful, that He is holy, and even that He is love. Fine. But what does it...
May 26, 2020 - It Is So
Ellen White, a prominent Christian writer and Seventh-day Adventist pioneer, said, “In like manner you are a sinner. You cannot atone for...
May 18, 2020 - Infinite Jests
One of the most celebrated books of the last century was Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace. Besides the crazy plot, the book deals...
May 11, 2020 - Millennium Matters
In the early lines of Paradise Lost, John Milton wrote that with this work he sought to “justify the ways of God to men.” That concept,...
May 4, 2020 - Do We Matter
Russian author Leo Tolstoy grew up in a fairly wealthy family with lots of servants, serfs as it were, who catered to the Tolstoy’s every...
April 27, 2020 - Knowing God From Evil
Ishmael Beah had been a child soldier during the civil war in his native Sierra Leone. At 13-years-old, he was forced into the army to...
April 20, 2020 - Certainty of Second Coming
Danish writer Søren Kierkegaard had written: “A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they...
April 13, 2020 - Checking Out
Anyone who has ever flown commercially knows that, at times, things can get pretty stressful and frustrating. Missed connections, late...
April 6, 2020 - Size Doesn't Matter
Most of us have never travelled more than 500 miles per hour. That’s a good clip, isn’t it? At that rate you can get from New York to...
March 30, 2020 - Naked In - Naked Out
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...
March 23, 2020 - The Sombrero Galaxy
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...
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