I may have a lot of friends who disagree with me on this; but I can’t believe the current movement in congress, Federal and State, to cut off the already trickling government spigot for public broadcasting. The revenue saved on this will not make a significant dent in the deficit, which leads me to say [...]

The real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening [...]

Teachers will tell you the laziest boy in the class is the one who works hardest in the end. They mean this. If you give two boys, say, a proposition in geometry to do, the one who is prepared to take trouble will try to understand it. The lazy boy will try to learn it [...]

A bad man, happy, is a man without the least inkling that his actions do not ‘answer’, that they are not in accord with the laws of the universe. A perception of this truth lies at the back of the universal human feeling that bad men ought to suffer. It is no use turning up [...]

“Has it come to that? Does the whole vast structure of modern naturalism depend on no positive evidence but simply on a priori metaphysical prejudice? Was it devised not to get in facts but to keep out God? Even, however, if Evolution in the strict biological sense has some better ground that this…. –and I can’t help [...]

This is how I distinguish dreaming and waking. When I am awake I can, in some degree, account for and study my dream. The dragon that pursued me last night can be fitted into my waking world. I know that there are such things as dreams; I know I had eaten an indigestible dinner; I [...]

Is there a purpose to suffering? I’ve heard some quote that scripture… you know the one, “count it all joy when you fall into various trials…” here’s the scripture: Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into [...]