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Through In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, Erik Larsen has taken the lives of William E. Dodd and his family to tell the story of the beginnings of Hitler’s rise to power. Dodd was appointed by FDR as the American...
WHAT DOES TOLSTOY HAVE TO TEACH US IN WAR AND PEACE?
Reading Leo Tolstoy’s classic, War and Peace is like feasting at a fifty course banquet. There is so much more in the novel than could ever be captured in the movie version. Apart from the innumerable characters, and the historical events it covers, War and Peace, is...
WHY HAS ATHEISM FAILED?
Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. A former revolutionary (Trotskyite), he attributes his return to faith largely to his experience of socialism in practice, which he witnessed during his many years reporting in Eastern Europe and his...
WHY IS LIFE LIKE INVESTING IN THE STOCK EXCHANGE?
How do you handle the down times in your lives, when you get discouraged, and feel that you are less productive, more ineffective, and you don’t seem to achieve your goals, or fulfill your agenda? I have come to believe that there is a certain rhythm to life, as there...
AN ANSWER TO DEPRESSION AND HOPELESSNESS
I came across a wonderful quote in Dallas Willard’s admirable book, Renovation of the Heart (p.228). “A depressed and hopeless man came to John Wesley to inquire what message he gave to the multitudes of hearers he regularly addressed, morning and evening. Wesley...
A REMEDY FOR DISCOURAGEMENT
Jim Wood, of Wears Valley Ranch in Tennessee and a former student of mine from Gordon College days, spoke at our monthly Chapel men's breakfast from Colossians 3:13. It struck me that his message was extremely relevant to a couple of friends who have been struggling...
IS RESURRECTION AN ILLUSION?
What are the objections to the Christian assurance of the resurrection? C.S. Lewis, in The Silver Chair tells the story of Eustace and Jill who set out in Narnia to find Prince Rilian who has been kidnapped and enchanted by the Lady of the Green Kirtle to forget who...
MAUNDY THURSDAY MEDITATION
“Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father….Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God.” Jesus must have shared his self-consciousness with John and...
WHAT IS THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL?
What do you say to people who say that they have never experienced the presence of God or who don’t believe in God because of all the suffering in the world? People can either be distanced from God because of an experience of suffering or they can be drawn closer to...
First Missionary to Moslems
Raymond Lull (1232-1316) was raised in a courtly family in Majorca and pursued a life of in the service of King Kames II of Aragon. He was a prolific poet in the Catalan language until his conversion to Christ in 1263. He devoted his life as a Franciscan missionary...
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