Lighting Live Blessing Nations

The following are words of one of the last century’s most influential people. “If there is a God, then he gives us not only life but also...

Remember comedian George Carlin, the foul-mouthed irreverent funnyman George Carlin? Thus saith St. George: “I'm also tired of hearing...

German poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote about women in a Paris park feeding birds with pieces of chewed and soggy bread. “It does them...

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). That is, we are called to believe in...

British philosopher Nick Bostrum has a fascinating theory regarding our existence, which is that, well . . . we don’t exist! That is, as...

After the disaster of the 12 spies, and Israel’s refusal to enter into the Promised Land, the nation spent 40 years wandering in the...

Years ago, a Marxist literary critic, Terry Eagleton, though not a believer (he’s a Marxist!) showing more deference to faith than one...

Years ago, a rock group had a hit song with these lyrics: There are times when all the world’s asleep, The questions run too deep For...

Some of the most beautiful words are found in the book of Job: “But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; And the birds of the...

In college in the 1970s, I had read Raymond Moody’s Life after Life, in which he documented Near Death Experiences (NDEs)—accounts of...

Someone, somewhere, seems obsessed with zombies, which explains the spate of TV series about them, including the long-running The Walking...

Thus saith British Queen Victoria’s chaplain just before the end of the 19th century: “The railroad, Cunard’s liners, and the electric...

Years ago, Nobel prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg, and a very vocal atheist, too, wrote a book about the origins of the universe....

American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900) wrote the following famous poem: A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied...

A German, Gunther was an infant when his father had been killed during World War II. Because his mother would always get coy and evasive...

One of the 20th century’s most celebrated authors was American John Cheever (1912-1982), who in March 1977 appeared on the cover of...

In a fascinating memoir, Unorthodox, about leaving Orthodox Judaism, Deborah Feldman wrote about the time she discovered that King David...

Read, slowly, the opening verses of T. S. Eliot’s “East Coker.” In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble,...

One of the most incredible Bible texts is found in Ezekiel. Talking about Lucifer, in heaven, the Bible says: “You were perfect in your...

For a few nights, a local AM radio station in Midwest flyover country ran a contest. Folks would come to the studio and the contestant...