After growing up on the south side of Chicago, Jeff Allen pursued a career in comedy. He took his show on the road working nightclubs and casinos, but it wasn’t …
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Abortion
“Destruction of the embryo in the mother’s womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we …
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John Stott on Preaching
“It was taken for granted from the beginning that Christian preaching would be expository preaching, that is, that all Christian instruction and exhortation would be drawn out of the passage …
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The Greatness of Christianity
During an international summit, an unnamed Chinese diplomat told American journalist, David Aikman, what his Asian nation discovered about the West’s greatness: “One of the things we were asked to …
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A Monopoly on Dwight L. Moody
In the nineteenth century, a group of pastors were organizing a citywide evangelistic campaign. As they discussed who they should invite to preach, the name of the noted evangelist D. …
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Fighting An Unwanted Fight
On the morning of April 19, 1775, John Parker was lying in bed. He didn’t have long to live…but that fact had nothing to do with the 700 British soldiers …
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Destruction In a Matter of Seconds
In 1959, as the world was embracing commercial air travel, Canada was set to unveil her latest offering to the world: Ottawa International Airport. Originally known as Uplands, the newly …
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“God’s problem is not that God is not able to do certain things. God’s problem is that God loves. Love complicates the life of God as it complicates every life.”
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Neil Postman on the Limitations of Science
“In the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, …
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