A boy was watching his father, a pastor, write a sermon. “How do you know what to say?” asked the little boy.

In ancient Athens, Greece, a man one day noticed the great storyteller Aesop playing games with some small children. He laughed and jeered…

Vincent van Gogh first began to experiment with impressionist techniques during his Parisian period, the time from 1886 until 1888. The Dutch artist wrote…

Many of us came to faith at a time when it was respectable to be a Christian. But with each passing day in our culture it’s becoming more and more…

There’s a story an American Lutheran bishop tells of visiting a parish church in California and seeing a stirring red and orange banner on the wall…

Georges Clemenceau was twice the prime minister of France, and played a major role in the treaties that concluded WWI. At the Paris Peace Conference…

A man and his three-year-old daughter were strolling through the park one hot summer day, when the little girl suddenly…

In the early 15th century, the kings of both Italy and Bohemia promised safe transport and custody to the great reformer, John Hus. Both, however…

On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister became the very first man in recorded history to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. But within 2 months…

Longtime chaplain at Dallas Theological Seminary, Richard Seume, once shared a powerful reminder of what makes true faith…