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1. There is nothing left to learn the hard way. 2. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service 3. No on...

When I were a lad, me mother would send me down to t' corner shop wi' a shilling, and I'd come back wi' five pounds o' p...

This letter was sent to the Lions Bay School Principal's office in West Geelong after the school had sponsored a luncheon for seniors. A...

A significant person in my extended family has just died. Even though our relationship was always a complicated one—different temperaments, ...

Thought I would share some of my travel last year... I have been in many places, but I've never been in Cahoots, apparently you can...

A year or two ago my friend Linda's cat escaped. It was cold and rainy, and that cat would not come home. Not for three days! The cat wa...

John Cacioppo, the director of the Centre for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, is the world's leading exp...

Researcher Robert Cialdini once demonstrated with a fascinating experiment the persuasive power of desiring the possessions or experiences o...

The great paradox [of my life] is that every time I walk into a prison and see the faces of men or women who have been transformed by the po...

Patrick Greene of San Antonio, Texas, has had a long history of disliking and combating Christians. At one point Greene, an outspoken local ...

An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and he turned to her and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if y...

Following the murder of 16 Afghanistan civilians by an American soldier in March 2012, David Brooks writes that terrible crimes such as thi...

Tim Keller tells the following story about the power of Christ's resurrection: A minister was in Italy, and there he saw the grave o...

Several years ago in Britain, researchers went door-to-door asking persons about their belief in God. One of their questions: "Do you b...

At the beginning of Lent, my wife and I sat at the dinner table with our three daughters, ages 6, 8, and 11, and attempted to explain the me...

In the fall of 2011, Pete Richeson walked into the sheriff's office to turn himself in for something he did nearly six decades ago. Whi...

In his book Glorious Mess, Mike Howerton tells the following story about a childhood experience playing "mud football." After a h...

The predicament of the American church is that we live in a kind of Magic Kingdom. Like going to Disneyland, you buy your ticket, and once y...

There was a man who spent his life longing to go to heaven. He spent hours every day deep in meditation, contemplating heaven. When he died ...

Soon after the publication of John Stott's 1971 revised edition of Basic Christian ity , he received a letter that read: Dear Joh...