Lighting Live Blessing Nations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Author Philip Caputo, in his memoir about serving in Vietnam, wrote about his idealism in wanting to respond to John F. Kennedy’s famous...

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

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

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

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

Ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus wrote a three-part drama about the cycle of violence and revenge that began when Atreus, King of...

“Black Friday” got that name because, as the busiest shopping day of the year, it’s when many retailers finally get “into the black,”...