At break of day, as heavenwardthe pious monks of St. BernardUttered the oft-repeated prayera voice cried through the startled air, Excelsior!…
The Virtue Series: Courage My husband and I had just arrived at a memorial service for our grandchildren’s great aunt,…
In January 1956 the world was shocked to hear that a primitive tribe in the rain forest of Ecuador had…
Intro: The following short excerpt is from Life Together, Chapter on Service by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It was completed in 1938 and published…
The Virtues: Gratitude In a world that often measures success by the accumulation of “more,” Sue’s house stood as a…
The Virtues: Modesty Toddlers do this. So do parents. However, few people know the word for it. Illeism is the…
What motivated a 21-year-old university student in Munich to risk her life by publicly speaking against a dictator bent on…
It is dangerous to write about holiness because others could easily draw the conclusion that the writer is holier than…
In chapter 3 of the Book of Esther it says, “Some time later King Xerxes promoted a man named Haman…
In the first Epistle of John, he writes, “But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in…