Lighting Live Blessing Nations

American poet Edna St. Vincent Milay, probably having a bad day, wrote the following bit of poetry: Not only underground are the brains...

Early in the last century, American author Thomas Wolfe wrote this tribute to his fellow species: “Yes, this is man, and it is impossible...

“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...

A woman who taught creative writing to children dying of cancer had written: “The children I write with die,” she begins, “no matter how...

Elizabeth Wurtzel took the literary world by storm with her 1994 memoir, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, about, well,...

Brian Magee had been a well-known English author, music critic, and Member of Parliament. In his early thirties, he was suddenly...

Someone once asked, “Is the universe friendly?” A good question, actually, if you think about it, because we are part of the universe and...

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...

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...

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...

Ellen White, a prominent Christian writer and Seventh-day Adventist pioneer, said, “In like manner you are a sinner. You cannot atone for...

One of the most celebrated books of the last century was Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace. Besides the crazy plot, the book deals...

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,...

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...

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...

Danish writer Søren Kierkegaard had written: “A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they...

Anyone who has ever flown commercially knows that, at times, things can get pretty stressful and frustrating. Missed connections, late...

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...

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...

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...