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Last month marked 42 years since of one of the darkest and most controversial experiments in the history of American research—the Stanford P...

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostili...

Here's an insightful blog post from Cardus regarding perceptions about religion. In the NHL draft last month, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins...

Here's an utterly brilliant article about the power of teams and the need for community . Starting with Mark Zuckerberg's purc...

In the world of atheist blogs (and there are plenty of them), one of their heroes—Richard Dawkins—got hammered by other atheists (and...

The story, published in a British newspaper, began with the following sentence: "Heartfelt commiseration to Dorothy Naylor of Plymouth,...

Jim Petersen tells the story of Mario, [a friend from South America] with whom he had studied the Bible for four years before Mario became ...

[My son] Kyle had mastered riding [a bicycle] with training wheels and was eager to try [a two-wheeler] …. That sparkling blue Schwinn bike ...

In his book Counterfeit Gods, Timothy Keller writes, "Idols generate false beliefs such as 'If I cannot achieve X, then my life wo...

One recent summer, in a large urn that sits outside the front door of my house, a blue swift made a nest in which she laid six eggs. This be...

When my oldest daughter was about six years old, she and I were having a discussion about my work. It seems she wasn't too happy with my...

Inspiration from the life of Samuel Logan Brengle   by Gordon MacDonald Many years ago, I became acquainted with the writings of Sam...

In his book The Gospel According to Jesus , Chris Seay mentions a profound lesson he learned from his father about loving the "bad peop...

In his book Resolving Everyday Conflict , Ken Sande tells about observing a visually impaired woman who resisted the repeated warnings of he...

The Telegraph, a newspaper based in Great Britain, reported on an unlikely bond of friendship and trust between two very different people: F...

How does the cross of Jesus speak to a world of pain, poverty, and injustice? After explaining the full range of biblical ideas of the atone...

As a kid, I loved Mission Sundays, when missionaries on furlough brought special reports in place of a sermon …. There is one visit I've...

A new home awaits us . . . by Gordon MacDonald We are moving. Not very far, mind you. It's only a 14-mile move that will bring us clo...

Kary Oberbrunner, author of Your Secret name, shared a story about his encounter with an older man named Bob. While Kary was at the local gy...

During a 1923 training exercise, a naval destroyer called the USS Delphy led a flotilla of seven vessels down the California coast. The USS ...